Apprenticeship training course

Community sport and health officer (level 3)

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Information about Community sport and health officer (level 3)

Engaging people in sport and physical activity across local communities.

• Knowledge, skills and behaviours:
  View knowledge, skills and behaviours

  Knowledge

  • How to initiate meaningful behaviour change based on utilising a strength and asset based approach
  • How to work with national governing bodies of sport, county sports partnerships, community organisations, the voluntary sector and sport for development agencies
  • How to plan programmes of engaging and innovative activities using sport and physical activity
  • How to understand social barriers and personal motivations of customers to activate local communities
  • What constitutes an effective sport or physical activity programme and how to measure customer satisfaction
  • Where to source and how to use customer insight to design sport and physical activity interventions – weekly coaching sessions, social skills groups, volunteering
  • The funding landscape for sport, physical activity, community regeneration, addressing anti-social behaviour and public health
  • How to use information technology to monitor and evaluate programmes in order to measure impact and capture outcomes
  • Understanding the causes, social determinants and distribution of health inequalities
  • Understanding the importance of physical activity and healthy lifestyles – basic understanding of nutrition, fitness to work, regular daily activity, mental well being
  • How sport and physical activity can be used to prevent, minimise and manage anti social behaviour or low level criminality by customers
  • How to stimulate positive activities through using experiential play and animation across community assets – this will include how to adapt traditional forms of games and sports as well as utilizing fun and adventure to encourage positive interaction
  • The fundamental principles of safeguarding, child protection and working with vulnerable adults
  • The fundamental principles of first aid in a community sport environment

  Skills

  • Successful application of tactics and strategies to empower people from inactive and hard to reach populations to take up an active lifestyle
  • Successful application of a range of approaches that bring about changes in attitudes and behaviours within target communities
  • Supporting people within target communities to become involved in the preparation, planning and delivery of sport and active lifestyles
  • Using local insight and customer-orientated marketing skills to attract high priority groups into existing leisure, parks and sport infrastructure
  • Negotiation, lobbying and brokerage skills with local partners across public health, community development and anti social behaviour
  • Demonstrate clear and effective communication techniques in order to give/receive information accurately and in a timely and positive manner
  • Problem solving and effective decision making with regards the design and implementation of sport and physical activity programmes
  • Writing successful funding bids to enable new, different or more opportunities to take place for sport and physical activity
  • Managing disruptive behaviour of clients and customers before, during and after activities
  • Managing and adapting personal behaviours to ensure provision is inclusive, customer-focused and accessible
  • Building partnerships and developing meaningful relationships with local partners and stakeholders in sport and physical activity

  Behaviours

  • A strong work ethic including attention to detail, willingness to adapt to change, and time management
  • A positive attitude to work and act as a role model within their local community
  • Ability to work individually and as a member of a team
  • Truthful, sincere and trustworthy in their actions; can demonstrate integrity by doing the right thing; exhibits high levels of emotional intelligence
  • A willingness to learn and contribute to their own continuing professional development
• Apprenticeship category (sector): Health and science
• Qualification level: 3; Equal to A level
• Course duration: 16 months
• Funding: £9,000 ; Maximum government funding for ; apprenticeship training and assessment costs.

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