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WeSUP's Senior Instructor Award

WeSUP’s Senior Instructor award is not like other SUP instructor qualifications. The title of WeSUP Senior Instructor gives you the credibility and ability to teach SUP to the highest standards of safety, skill and customer satisfaction. The course sets out the ability to teach to the standards of WeSUP’s audited safe management system which ensures that you operate to the best practice guidelines set out by WeSUP and audited by the Royal Life Saving Society (RLSS). The RLSS ensure that we follow the governments best practice guidelines.

 

The 2 ½ day course will take you through essential learning modules that include:

 

  • Dynamic Lesson Planning & Delivery

  • Operating procedures & Systems

  • Safety Management

  • Risk Assessment & Planning

  • Rescue & Recovery

  • Intuitive Customer Care   

  • Charts and weather forecasting

  • Teaching Advanced Paddle Skill

Just £220 Includes: Aptitude & induction module  |  2 ½ days instruction  |  Exam cost  |  
Pass Certificate  |  Tea & Coffee

 

£20 deposit payable upon booking.

 

WeSUP’s Senior Instructor Award runs on the last weekend of every month, Friday to Sunday. A maximum of 12 clients per course may enrol on a first come, first serve basis.

 

To order your induction and aptitude test and make a booking enquiry, please contact us via email at sean@wesup.co.uk. 

Course Fee's & Booking

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You must fit the Pre Course Criteria outlined below and complete our induction and aptitude assessment module prior to your practical course enrolment. It is a basic set of forms and questions designed to assess your teaching aptitude, SUP ability & knowledge. There are no trick questions. Its purpose is for us to assess any training that you might need prior to starting the Senior Instructor Award. The cost of this pack is included in your course fee and will be taken as a £20 deposit when you enrol and the pack will be sent 3 weeks prior to your course start date.

 

Pre Course Criteria

 

  • Possess confident SUP skills made up of at least 100 hours practical Stand Up Paddleboarding.
     

  • Be able to complete our Swim, Run, SUP test (SRS test) – 100 meter swim, 100 meter run and 1km SUP within 18 minutes.
     

  • Show good knowledge of SUP equipment including use and construction materials.
     

  • Have sound knowledge of dynamic weather conditions relative to SUP.
     

  • Hold an NWSMP certificate– National Water Safety management Programme qualification or equivilent first aid and water safety management qualification.
     

  • Show proven track record of teaching and leading groups and individuals. This does not have to be SUP specific. 
     

  • Possess no medical condition that may put yourself or the group at danger.

Course Enrolment

NWSMP - Course Pre -Requisite

The NWSMP is the most up to date industry standard water safety programme by the Royal Life Saving Society. It will give you the ability to perfectly assess group safety, learn rescue methods, emergency first aid and the ability to assess your clients coping mechanisms.  

 

It is has been written alongside the Health & Safety Executive, Royal Geographic Society, Expedition Providers Association and other extremely reputable industry leaders. It is the perfect course for Water Sports instructors and it serves as the only pre-requisite required to your Senior Instructor Award certificate.

 

The course is available at a great discount when booked in conjunction with WeSUP’s Safe Paddler Award. Contact us now to book or make an enquiry or for more information check out the website here.  

contact us now to book onto WeSUP's stand up paddle board instructor qualification
contact us now to book onto WeSUP's stand up paddle board instructor qualification

Course Simplicity & Benefits

Your Senior Instructor certificate will be marked with the competencies that you have selected. No need for levels of training, just the practical ‘site specific’ training that you require to teach in your chosen location. This will enable you to be a free-lance instructor and prove your ability to teach in the environment that you have been trained for. What’s more, if you decide to add more competencies to your instructor ticket, you will only pay for the competency that you need, rather than a whole day of cross over training that you just do not need.

 

If you pass, you will be entered into our ‘approved instructor’ data base so that you can be selected for specialist employment opportunities or freelance work. You will also be given WeSUP’s accredited Safe Management Programme. The pack includes all of the paperwork that you will need to run your SUP enterprise, and will inlude;

 

  • Safety policy manual.
     

  • Normal operating procedures (NOPS) and management template.
     

  • Template operating forms.
     

  • Template emergency action plan.

Ordering & Booking

WeSUP’s Senior Instructor Award runs on the last weekend of every month, Friday to Sunday. A maximum of 12 clients per course may enrol on a first come, first serve basis.

 

To order your induction and aptitude test and make a booking enquiry, please contact us via email at sean@wesup.co.uk.

contact us now to book onto WeSUP's stand up paddle board instructor qualification
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