Reference Quantity: ST0093
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Group Sport and Well being Officer – Degree 3
The important thing function of a Group Sport and Well being Officer (CSHO) is to provoke behaviour change in native residents with regards engagement in sport and bodily exercise throughout native communities. By working inside and throughout native organisations people will scope, organise and coordinate the supply of alternatives for native communities to get extra bodily lively. Employers are prone to come from the non-public, public, charitable and third sector and ship core enterprise actions within the fields of leisure, sport, youth work, youth justice, outside schooling, or public well being. A CSHO requires a complete understanding of the rules of behaviour change; a capability to adapt supply to go well with completely different teams in society; data of methods to handle and lead colleagues or volunteers; sensible expertise of methods to develop and devise acceptable sports activities or bodily exercise programmes; and the expectations of collaborative work with a community of companions / stakeholders. The function is a versatile one and on this function people can anticipate to work different and unsociable hours, together with evenings / weekends, and through faculty vacation durations. It’s unlikely people will undertake an everyday day by day work sample or set of recurring duties. Duties may embrace attendance at conferences, supervising classes, liaising with companion organisations, designing advertising collateral, updating social media or reporting in opposition to undertaking standards. It is usually essential for the CSHO to know their limitations and bounds, working with specialists from different professions the place acceptable – this may increasingly embrace the police and uniformed providers, Allied Well being Professionals, counsellors, private trainers, sports activities coaches or youth staff. The occupation exists inside the sport for growth sector that performs an essential function in bettering the well being of the nation – creating alternatives that get extra individuals, extra lively, extra usually.
The Group Sport and Well being Officer can be outfitted with the next data:
- Methods to provoke significant behaviour change primarily based on utilising a energy and asset primarily based strategy
- Methods to work with nationwide governing our bodies of sport, county sports activities partnerships, neighborhood organisations, the voluntary sector and sport for growth businesses
- Methods to plan programmes of partaking and revolutionary actions utilizing sport and bodily exercise
- Methods to perceive social obstacles and private motivations of consumers to activate native communities
- What constitutes an efficient sport or bodily exercise programme and methods to measure buyer satisfaction
- The place to supply and methods to use buyer perception to design sport and bodily exercise interventions – weekly teaching classes, social abilities teams, volunteering
- The funding panorama for sport, bodily exercise, neighborhood regeneration, addressing anti-social behaviour and public well being
- Methods to use info expertise to watch and consider programmes in an effort to measure impression and seize outcomes
- Understanding the causes, social determinants and distribution of well being inequalities
- Understanding the significance of bodily exercise and wholesome existence – primary understanding of vitamin, health to work, common day by day exercise, psychological properly being
- How sport and bodily exercise can be utilized to stop, minimise and handle anti social behaviour or low degree criminality by clients
- Methods to stimulate optimistic actions by means of utilizing experiential play and animation throughout neighborhood belongings – it will embrace methods to adapt conventional types of video games and sports activities in addition to using enjoyable and journey to encourage optimistic interplay
- The basic rules of safeguarding, little one safety and dealing with susceptible adults
- The basic rules of first support in a neighborhood sport atmosphere
The Group Sport and Well being Officer will perceive and be capable to reveal and apply the next abilities:
- Profitable software of techniques and methods to empower individuals from inactive and onerous to achieve populations to take up an lively life-style
- Profitable software of a spread of approaches that result in modifications in attitudes and behaviours inside goal communities
- Supporting individuals inside goal communities to develop into concerned within the preparation, planning and supply of sport and lively existence
- Utilizing native perception and customer-orientated advertising abilities to draw excessive precedence teams into current leisure, parks and sport infrastructure
- Negotiation, lobbying and brokerage abilities with native companions throughout public well being, neighborhood growth and anti social behaviour
- Show clear and efficient communication strategies in an effort to give/obtain info precisely and in a well timed and optimistic method
- Drawback fixing and efficient resolution making with regards the design and implementation of sport and bodily exercise programmes
- Writing profitable funding bids to allow new, completely different or extra alternatives to happen for sport and bodily exercise
- Managing disruptive behaviour of shoppers and clients earlier than, throughout and after actions
- Managing and adapting private behaviours to make sure provision is inclusive, customer-focused and accessible
- Constructing partnerships and growing significant relationships with native companions and stakeholders in sport and bodily exercise
The Group Sport and Well being Officer will exhibit the next behaviours:
- A robust work ethic together with consideration to element, willingness to adapt to vary, and time administration
- A optimistic angle to work and act as a job mannequin inside their local people
- Capability to work individually and as a member of a workforce
- Truthful, honest and reliable of their actions; can reveal integrity by doing the appropriate factor; displays excessive ranges of emotional intelligence
- A willingness to be taught and contribute to their very own persevering with skilled growth
English and Maths
Apprentices with out degree 2 English and Maths might want to obtain this degree previous to taking their finish level evaluation.
{Qualifications}
There are not any required {qualifications} for finishing this apprenticeship. It’s anticipated that apprentices will go away with a significant and transferable portfolio almost about behavioural change. There are not any obligatory prerequisite {qualifications} – though as examples, the Multi Expertise Teaching qualification at Degree 2; Understanding the Ideas of Behaviour Change; Utilizing Sport to Sort out Youth Crime; or a associated Apprenticeship at degree 2 could be deemed acceptable entry factors for transition into this function.
Length
The Apprenticeship will take between 16-20 months to finish – solely distinctive candidates can be prone to full within the shorter timeframe.
Development
Profitable completers will be capable to transfer into senior roles inside the Sector – main groups of individuals or specialising with sure populations, explicit sports activities or programmes. On profitable completion of this apprenticeship the Group and Well being Officer can be eligible to use to develop into an Affiliate of the Chartered Institute for the Administration of Sport and Bodily Exercise (CIMSPA)
Overview
The Normal can be reviewed after 3 years of supply throughout 2019.
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