Community Coaching Higher National Certificate - HNC

The Level 4 certificate in Community Coaching offers an exciting programme to prepare you for a career in community sports. It has been designed to meet a skills gap in the current workforce, building talent to improve the health and wellbeing of local communities.

You will learn a mixture of theoretical and practical skills which you will be expected to apply in a range of work-based scenarios.

The HTQ is a coursework-based qualification with no exams. As part of the qualification you will study the Professional Skills unit which asks you to research a contemporary theme in community coaching. This theme is set by Pearson each year.

Embedded within the programme will be the opportunity to achieve a professional coaching qualification which will enable you to kickstart your career as a coach or allow you to work in schools delivering PE.

The course is made up of eight 15 credit units which are as follows:\
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Unit 1 Nutrition\
Unit 2 Fundamentals of Sport and Exercise Science Psychology\
Unit 3 Anatomy and Physiology\
Unit 4 Professional Skills (Pearson set unit)\
Unit 5 Coaching Practice and Skill Development\
Unit 6 Training, Fitness, Testing\
Unit 7 Lifestyle Coaching\
Unit 8 Community Coaching