Positive Destinations: Job Skills for Young People
What Positive Destinations can offer:
Short Term Options: Raising aspirations and developing life skills day courses
We provide workshops that aim to develop communication, teamwork, leadership, and organisation skills, through mock interviews, teamwork tasks and problem-solving challenges.
PD also has a learning library of pre-recorded videos which explore the skills, behaviours, and competencies that Edinburgh Leisure look for when recruiting our sport and physical activity workforce. Our content also includes videos looking at how different life skills are used in sport
Medium Term Options: Find out if coaching is for you and get rewarded for it
| One Day Sports Leaders | This one-day course gives participants a glimpse of what to expect on a full Sports Leader Course. It introduces participants to key leadership skills and how to develop these. |
| SFA 1.1: Introduction to coaching Courses | An opportunity to gain a coaching qualification with the Scottish FA and take the first step on the SFA’s children’s football coaching pathway. This course will help participants gain an understanding of areas and skills such as effective communication and interaction, using a games-based approach to player development, the role a coach plays and problem solving relating to coaching and delivering sessions. The course is delivered by expert coaches from with the SFA. |
Long Term Options: Get qualified by gaining recognised qualifications
| SCQF Level 4 and 5 Qualification in Sports Leadership | The Sports Leadership L4/L5 qualifications are aimed at young people who wish to develop their leadership skills, using sport and physical activity as the method of engagement and delivery. These brilliant qualifications help young people learn and demonstrate important life skills such as effective communication and organisation whilst learning to lead basic physical activities to younger people, their peers, older generations and within theircommunity. The courses are a great confidence builder and are a good qualification for young people to add to their CVs – they can earn SCQF credits too. The programmes run as a course of 12 session that are 2 to 3 hours in duration. |
| NATIONAL POOL LIFEGUARD QUALIFICATION (NPLQ) | The NPLQ is the most awarded lifeguard qualification in the UK and Ireland and is also internationally recognised. The qualification offers an excellent starting point for a career in the leisure industry will successful graduates gain the NPLQ qualification allowing them to work as a Pool Lifeguard with the potential to gain employment after the course. Participants will learn all elements of Pool Rescue Techniques, Lifeguarding Theory, First Aid and CPR as well as other life skills. The NPLQ is a 6 day course with an theory and pool based evaluation at the end. |
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About Positive Destinations
The project is targeted at young people Not in Employment, Education or Training (NEET) and aims to give young people an invaluable insight and experience in the sport and leisure industry. It will also help to instill each young person with work-based skills and work place values which are vital when moving into future employment.
What's Involved?
Each group goes through a programme of development over a period of weeks with learning focussed on sports specific coaching courses, for example, studying for sport leadership qualifications.
After completing the course, participants will be given a work placement at one of Edinburgh Leisure’s venues where they will be immersed in all aspects of the Sport and Leisure management environment.
Their progress will be closely monitored throughout all stages of the course and they will be given ongoing guidance whether they chose to remain in school or to pursue a career in sport and leisure following their Standard Grade exams.
The project hopes to encourage every young person to progress on to Further or Higher Education and from there into employment within the leisure Industry.
The Future Looks Bright
Young people participating in the programme have provided very positive feedback on their experience, including increased optimism about their future, more structure in their lives and better skills for the workplace.
Of those who took part 79% said that their confidence had been boosted by the project.
One project participant commented:
“I had been wanting to get into sport, so it is just ideal and been great. I feel a lot better about the future, ten times better.”
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This work is supported by Baillie Gifford