Enhancing the employability of sports graduates: an integration of community placements

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• Enhancing the employability of sports graduates
  an integration of community placements

Paul Rainer Rob Griffiths
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Olympics 2012
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Benefits to Wales?

• Training camps
• Lottery disbursement
• Business contracts
• Additional tourists
• Matches at Millennium Stadium
• Feel good factor
• Health and wellbeing

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Health of a nation the unhealthiest places to
live in UK (HealthACORN Report 2007)
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Daily Express (31/1/05)
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Olympic Vision

• to inspire a new generation to greater sporting
  activity and achievement, helping to foster a
  healthy and active nation. ww.london2012.com

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Climbing Higher

• All primary school children to take part in sport
  and physical activity for 60 minutes 5 times a
  week.
• 90 of secondary school children to take part in
  sport and physical activity for 60 minutes 5
  times a week.
• active children become active young people and
  then
• active adults (Janz et al. 2000 Telama et al.
  2005)
• Welsh Olympians will win at least 15 medals
  between 2004-2024

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Regular participation in extra-curricular sports
activities (SCW 2006 Active Young People in Wales)
Source SCW Active Young People (2006)
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Community Placements

• Pre-requisites of working within sports
  development sector (SkillsActive, 2005)
• 1. Industry experience (paid or voluntary)
• 2. People skills
• Coaching qualifications
• Students not prepared for industry
• Sandwich year placements limited
• Voluntary opportunities not taken up
• Embedded within modules
• Placements linked to assessments

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Case Studies

• develop a critical understanding of the issues
  relating to the sports development and coaching
  industry and to develop core transferable
  skills. Power (2006161)
• Improved teamwork, communication and time
  management skills. Fleming Ferkins (2006)
• Importance of student reflection and recognition
  of what has been learnt. Keech (2006)
• Sustainability aided by former graduates acting
  as placement supervisors.

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Case Studies

• Matching courses to National Occupational
  Standards is a nationally recognised way of
  ensuring that courses teach students the skills
  and knowledge they need in employment.
• In addition, work based learning is an important
  tool in skills development and ensuring students
  have experience of the work place and are able to
  reflect on it through their study.
• Ben Gittus, SkillsActive
  (2005)

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Developing High Quality Opportunities

• 1. Produce a clear framework for creating
  locally-available, high quality and fun sporting
  opportunities for young people.
• 2. Ensure that those who work with young people
  are suitably equipped to do so.
• suitable facilities
• trained staff
• well structured programme

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Policy Driven

• To increase the number of coaches, leaders and
  instructors both voluntary and professional,
  deployed in Wales.
• To improve the quality of coaching in Wales by
  increasing the opportunities for education,
  training and qualification.

• Welsh Assembly Government
• Climbing Higher Strategy (July, 2004)
• Climbing Higher Strategy Next Steps (July,
  2006)
• Coaching Plan for Wales
• Physical Education School Sport Action Plan
• 5 x 60 School Sport Plan

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Key Modules

• Year 1
• Exercise Physiology (1)
• Football Coaching I
• (UKCC L2 Badge)
• Sports Coaching 1
• Introduction to Sports Psychology
• Nutrition
• Sports Development (1)

• Year 2
• Football Coaching II (UKCC L3 Coaching Badge)
• Sports Coaching 2
• Performance
• Work Based Module (Triple Module)
• Sports Development (2)

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Girls Young Womens Football Development
Officer The North Region Girls Football
League   Salary 22,375 - 24,467 (3 year fixed
term contract).

Surrey County Development Manager Salary in the
range of 26,000 - 30,000 dependant on
experience and location



Salary 20,000 pa
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Coaching Modules

• YEAR 1
• Sports Coach UK Workshops
• Introduction to Fundamental Movement Skills
• Long Term Athlete Development
• FMS Practical workshops
• WRU Tag Rugby award
• UKCC L1 WRU Rugby
• UKCC L1 FAW

• YEAR 2
• SCUK Workshops
• Effective Coaching
• Equity in Your Coaching
• Coaching Children Young People
• Coaching Disabled Performers
• Good Practice Child Protection
• Athletics L1
• Basketball L1
• Badminton L1

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Dragon Sport

• Multi sport activities and games for 7-11 year
  olds
• Encourages children to participate in quality out
  of school sport activities.
• Encourages clubs and communities to offer Dragon
  Sport and link with the local primary schools.
• Recruit and train organisers to provide safe and
  purposeful sporting opportunities (no requirement
  to be expert coaches.

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Dragon Sport

• 8 hours training (RCT)
• Assigned school/club
• Groups of 4
• Responsible for organisation and delivery
• 15 week programme
• Final festival
• Practical and reflective assessments

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Impact of Dragon Sport
Source SCW
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Dragon Sport Student/University benefits

• Practical experience
• Guaranteed place on Camp America programme
• Opportunity to be employed by Glamorgan Sports
  Camps during vacations
• Opportunity to become Dragon Sport trainers
• Improvement in interpersonal skills
• Students work in their own communities.

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E3 After School Physical Activity Programme
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E3 After School Physical Activity Programme

• Rationale
• Only 24 secondary age children do 5x60mins of
  physical activity per week
• Children progressing from Dragon Sport into year
  7 lack opportunities to continue extracurricular
  activity
• Principles
• Main aim is to increase the of children of
  secondary age undertaking 5 x 60 minutes of sport
  and physical activity
• Focus on children taking part in less than 5x60
  minutes
• Create children leaving school who are positive
  about sport and physical activity, skilful,
  knowledgeable, active
• The Climbing Higher Strategy aims to have 100 of
  primary aged children taking part in after school
  physical activity, and 90 of secondary school
  children taking after school activity.
• The Target
• The key performance indicator for success will be
  the increase in the percentage of school children
  taking part in extra-curricular sport and
  physical activity on a regular basis. This
  programme will be the main vehicle for achieving
  the Welsh Assembly Governments aim of 90 of
  children taking part in regular and frequent
  physical activity.

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Partners Involved
University of Glamorgan
RCT Sport Development RCT Education Authority
RCT Teaching Local Health Board
Tonypandy Porth Tonyrefail Y-Pant Aberdare
Boys Aberdare Girls Coedylan Cwm
Clydach Miskin Maesycoed
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Impact of the Programme

• Increase in physical activity levels of children
  within the critical window of the day
• To provide exit routes for children regarding
  sport and physical activity within the community
• Coaching is central to the development of sport
  at every level (WAG/SCW Coaching Plan for Wales,
  2004).

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UKCC Long Term Coach Development Model - Coaching
Framework ( A 3-7-11 Action Plan)
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Jobs Minimum Operating Standards

• (1) A minimum of 2 years coaching experience
• (2) Hold (or be working towards) a minimum of one
  level 2 National Governing Body Qualifications
• (3) A First Aid qualification
• (4) Experience of planning, delivering and
  co-ordinating coaching programmes for young
  people
• (5) A full driving license (6) A willingness to
  work evenings and weekends and

• Knowledge of LTAD
• Multi-Skills training
• Key SCUK Workshops
• Child Protection
• Disability
• Equity in Your Coaching
• Working with Young Children

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Salary 18,952 - 21,535
Salary 16,743 - 21,590 pa pro rata
Salary 20,895 - 22,293
COMMUNITY MULTI-SKILLS COACH Salary 20,235
Community Sports Coach Salary 19,500
5x60 Officer 18,450 - 20,235
Salary 22,620 to 25,476

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Challenges of Placements

• Health Safety
• Student Numbers
• Quality Assurance
• Mentoring
• Reflection
• Empowerment
• Ownership