Welcome to our newly updated Coaching Hampshire & IOW website.
We have re-designed our website to offer designated areas to coaches and recruiters, which means it is now much easier to navigate and find what you are looking for.
Coaching Hampshire & IOW aims to provide coaches and those involved with employment, deployment, education and coach development with a suite of services designed to support a professionally regulated profession in which all coaches (voluntary, part-time and full-time) are recognised, rewarded and valued.
What can the website do for you?
The website is continuously evolving. Its brief is to create an online recruitment, employment and deployment tool for coaches that operates inside the existing "delivery system for sport" and within the parameters of the UK Coaching Framework.
The website includes the following features: -
For Coaches
- Become a Coach - Find out if you are suitable to becoming a Coach.
- Benefits to the Coach - Find out the benefits of joining Coaching Hampshire & IOW.
- Coach Education - View the coach education calendar for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
- Coaching Resources - Provides access to resource bank, discounted coaching resources.
- Coaching Vacancies - View the latest coaching opportunities.
- Opportunities - Read what type of opportunities are available as a Coach.
- UKCC - Read the frequently asked questions about the UKCC.
- Coach Scholarship - online application for coaches looking to take level two qualifications and above.
For Recruiters
- Benefits to the Provider - Read the benefits of joining as a coaching provider.
- Developing Coaches - Information about development of coaches.
- Future Jobs Fund - Read about Sport Hampshire & IOW's involvement.
- High Quality Coaching - Information about the seven qualities embodied by Sports Coach UK.
- Minimum Standards - Read the minimum standards for deployment.
- Register as a placement provider - Register to advertise job vacancies.
Whilst we currently have great faith in the current system to assist us in the mapping of coaching activity, creating a database of coaches and providing coaches with a repository for their own personal development, we're always keen to get feedback and develop the system to fulfil your needs.
If you have any constructive ideas or feedback that you feel would enhance the website or any other services we provide, then please contact us at info@coachinghampshireiow.co.uk
Future Jobs Fund gives young people a sporting chance
With the recent change in government the future of central government investment in sport is uncertain. Last week the Lib-Con coallition reported billions of pounds worth of cuts across a wide range of departments and industries. Amongst these budgets was the Department of Work and Pensions' Future Jobs Fund. The Labour-devised scheme aimed to get 200, 000 young people into long-term employment by investing £5bn.
Nevertheless, it was also reported that some of this funding would be retained and Sport Hampshire & IOW (SHIOW) have managed to secure a small portion of this funding. In July and August 2010 SHIOW in partnership with the National Skills Academy will be promoting 31 new jobs for young people.
The FJF Trainee Sports Coach jobs will be aimed at young people aged between 18-24 years old. The FJF scheme aims to provide opportunities for those who have been found it difficult to get jobs in the current enconomic climate or may lack the formal qualifications often requested by employers. Jobs will be available in a variety of sports and with a range of deployers across the Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.
Coaching Development Manager, CJ Lee, as lead for this new project explained "We're looking for candidates who can demonstrate a real passion for sport and sports coaching. We're working with some really exciting partners, from professional sports clubs to local coaching providers and I'm confiendent this will lead to an increase in the number of paid coaches in a whole host of locations and settings suporting our local children, players and athletes to enjoy their sport."
Young people can now apply for jobs under the fund after being unemployed for 6 months. The fund can be accessed by going along to local job centres, where a list of potential jobs is held and people can be matched to the various opportunities. Alternatively applicants can look for jobs direct on the www.jobsgameon.co.uk website. For more information keep checking the Coaching Hampshire website and our Facebook page.
"I have been really impressed by the depth of this system and found the support fantastic."