The role of Sport Coach is to use extensive technical and tactical sports knowledge and skills to design and deliver coaching programmes that engage, motivate and evolve participants’ skills and performance.

Sport coaches aim to provide meaningful and high-quality learning, development and performance experiences. They support the achievement of medals in talent, national and international competition, enrich performance in local competitions, increase participation, raise educational standards, enhance wellbeing and drive social change. Sport coaches can influence national wellness to reduce burden on the National Health Service.

The course enables students to apply their learning in
the workplace and the standard aligns with the following professional recognition of ‘The Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity (CIMSPA)’.