Transitioning to health
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The document discusses the urgent need to develop a skilled workforce to address inactivity within the health sector, highlighting a significant growth in fitness applications and collaborative efforts with local public health services. It raises concerns about the qualifications and preparedness of exercise professionals, indicating a need for better support, training, and career pathways to attract and retain talent. The text outlines ongoing initiatives, such as the trailblazer programme and the influence of CIMSPA in shaping industry standards, while emphasizing the need for a fundamental shift in perceptions of careers in this sector.
Transitioning to health
- 1. Tara Dillon Transitioning to Health #ukactivesummit
- 2. Transitioning to Health Developing a workforce to tackle inactivity 13/11/2014
- 3. A sector on the rise? 13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce to tackle inactivity
- 4. A sector in demand? 13/11/2014Transitioning to Health: Developing a workforce to tackle inactivity
- 5. 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
- 6. 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.
- 7. 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”
- 8. 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
- 9. 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?