Positive Destinations
This programme delivers a wide range of workshops, mentoring and sports activities designed to deliver job skills for young people not in education, employment or training.
Job Skills for Young People
Aimed at young people not in education, employment, or training (NEET), this programme offers fitness and skill development activities. The programme includes career workshops, mentoring, and various fitness activities to help participants build a positive future and gain valuable life skills.
Positive Destinations helps groups of young people learn new skills for the job market. It uses sport to transform lives, increase motivation, encourage learning and support personal development.
The project aims to give young people an invaluable insight and experience in the sport and leisure industry, helping to instil 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.
Short Term – Day Courses: Raising Aspirations and Developing Life Skills
These courses provide young people with an insight into some of the fundamental and transferable skills that are needed in the workplace. The course provides participants with the support to recognise and develop these skills.
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 their community. 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 a theory and pool based evaluation at the end. |
For more information about this programme or to discuss a referral please contact our Active Communities team on 0131 458 2260 or email active@edinburghleisure.co.uk
Help Us Help More People
This programme is operated by our charitable organisation – Active Communities – which delivers wellbeing programmes that support 12,500 people a year in Edinburgh to get active and improve their health.
As a registered charity, Edinburgh Leisure is heavily reliant on external funding and donations to keep delivering programmes such as this one.
To help us keep helping the people of Edinburgh, you can donate via text or our online form.
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