Awarding Body

Mountain Training

Scheme

Indoor Climbing Assistant

Course

Training and assessment

Type

Assessment

Award Description

This is a combined training and assessment course for people who want to actively support a qualified instructor. Qualified Indoor Climbing Assistants can assist with core tasks within a session, directly supervised by an instructor.

Indoor Climbing Assistant

The Indoor Climbing Assistant is designed for people who want to support qualified instructors with climbing sessions on artificial structures. People interested in this scheme might be parents, youth workers, young leaders or teachers and the focus is on assisting with core tasks within a session. Indoor Climbing Assistants are not qualified to manage groups independently. Use of the phrase 'indoor climbing walls' in this context refers to all artificial structures, including outdoor artificial climbing towers and mobile walls. 

Is it for me?

The prerequisites for registration are as follows:

• Be at least 16 years old.
• Have an interest in assisting qualified instructors on indoor climbing walls.

If the above applies to you, when registrations open in January 2019 you will be able to register for the scheme. This will give you access to DLOG (our digital logbook) where you can record your experience and keep track of your progress.

Training and Assessment

The course involves one day of training and ongoing assessment in a supportive learning environment covering the following topics:

• Technical competence (equipment, belaying, personal skills and background knowledge)
• Management and decision making (managing participants under supervision, demonstrations and understanding your role)
• Teaching and learning skills
• The climbing environment (access, etiquette and ethics)

Prerequisites for attending the course are as follows:

• Experience in the basic skills (belaying, harness fitting, tying on).
• 5 indoor climbing sessions. (There is no personal climbing requirement, you can just belay, but it is useful to have experience of climbing.)
• Belayed on a minimum of 5 indoor climbing sessions.

After the course you will be given an assessment result of either Pass or Defer (not yet mastered basic skills). 

This course will be delivered by Jon Chamberlain, a highly experienced Mountaineering Instructor (MIA) and climbing Develeopment Coach.

Start

03/02/2019 09:45

End

03/02/2019 16:00

Total Days

1

Maximum Bookings

6

Bookings

3

Venue

Sunderland Wall

Town

Sunderland

County

Tyne and Wear

Postcode

SR4 6TQ

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

54.91471

Longitude

-1.41480

Delivered in

English

Name

Adventure Training North East

Phone

+447713254649

Website

Booking/Details

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