SEP Apprenticeship and Assessment

LFE apprentices all undertake the Sporting Excellence Professional (SEP) Apprenticeship Standard.

The SEP Apprenticeship Standard is designed to equip young footballers with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required for a career in professional football.

Core Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours

• Technical performance – the movement and skills that underpin techniques required to play professional football.
• Tactical performance – understanding strategy and approach to professional football.
• Technical/tactical performance includes the ability to use technology to interpret and compare different forms of analysis in training and competition.
• Physical performance – development of physical capabilities to apply in a professional environment.
  Injury and risk management.
• Effective, safe and inclusive practice.
• Anti-doping.
• Nutritional performance.
• Psychological and emotional performance – the ability to cope with the psychological demands of a sport in order to perform at an optimum level.
• Communication.
• Lifestyle and personal development.
• Career and self-development.
• Integrated approach to performance – the active combination of all disciplines that contribute equally to achieve high performance.
• Behaviours, professionalism and values.

End Point Assessment (EPA)

Towards the end of the SEP Apprenticeship Standard, apprentices will be required to complete
an End Point Assessment. This consists of three distinct assessment methods.