Community Sport and Health Officer Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship

Course Overview

Community Sport and Health Officer Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship

The Level 3 Community Sport and Health Officer Advanced Apprenticeship will teach you you to inspire behaviour change and boost engagement in sport and physical activity. You will learn to organise and deliver opportunities for residents to be more active, develop programs and lead teams. This apprenticeship helps you collaborate with local organisations and stakeholders to create a healthier, more active community.

Course Content

• 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