Tara Dillon

Transitioning to Health

#ukactivesummit

Transitioning

to Health

Developing a workforce to tackle inactivity

13/11/2014

A sector on the rise?

13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce

to tackle inactivity

A sector in demand?

13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce

to tackle inactivity

A diversifying sector

13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce

to tackle inactivity

Regularly providing wellbeing solutions for customers, not restricted to members

Regularly providing mass participation and boutique activity classes and interventions

Expanding into new local areas such as theatres, libraries culture and public health services

Potentially part of the 60% growth in the usage of fitness applications

Delivering activity counselling with General Practice Surgeries as a public health service

Delivering activity with schools as part of the school sports premium

Our career ladder needs repair

13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce

to tackle inactivity

If we are important, in demand, and growing then why is our career pathway in need of repair?

Without a career pathway we will always struggle with attracting and retaining talent.

55% of managers feel that exercise professionals are under-skilled to deliver psychological support to inactive people

13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce

to tackle inactivity

A third of employers feel that exercise professionals lack communication skills to work with inactive people

� There are circa 25,000 managers without the minimum level of qualification for their role

� 31% of exercise professionals state they are not prepared to work with children

� 25% of managers call for qualifications to have a greater emphasis on behavioural change and motivational interviewing

� 13% of managers state that education provision has become too “quick & compact”

Now is the time to change

13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce

to tackle inactivity

Trailblazer

A successful Trailblazer programme is now operating across the sector, this group is now the route to review and develop apprenticeship standards

QCF

Removal of the QCF will create significant upheaval with no means of managing variances of delivery across AOs

Skills Gaps

Increasing awareness that exercise professionals must change if they are to be sustainable

CIMSPA

CIMSPA is an increasingly influential body, leading the design of standards, endorsement of CPD and qualifications for management professionals

Employers

Employers are being encouraged to take their own SFA contract and take “ownership of the skills system” but are confused as to how. Few are taking training in-house (Fitness First)

Business Models

New business models are being created in response to key sector wide developments such as transfer of public health responsibility to local authorities

We need to fundamentally change the way learners view working in the sector, in order to achieve the same credibility as other professions

13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce

to tackle inactivity

Numerous different areas require review, but which first?

� Assessment methods of exercise professionals?

� Competencies within our flagship exercise roles?

� Apprenticeship funding and future mandatory cash contributions?

� Employer design of qualifications?

� Partnerships with fellow professions?