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Physical Training Instructor

Posted By: RAF - Manchester
Address:
- 29-31 Petersfield House
- Peter Street
- Manchester
- M2 5QJ
Contact: 0161 832 5822
Date Posted: 5th Jan 2009
Salary: Excellent
Location: Other
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Views Since Posting: 36
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Instruct classes, conduct fitness tests, provide health and fitness counselling, develop leadership and teamwork in others – and organize sporting activities.

Your Work

Overview
As a Physical Training Instructor, your primary role will be to teach and promote physical fitness and health programmes – all RAF personnel are required to be fit so that they can perform their tasks effectively, whether they’re in the UK or overseas. In the basic PTI role you could teach physical education classes and help manage RAF sports facilities. However, after further training, your role could be to work in any of the three specialist training areas - either as a Remedial Instructor, using exercise to aid recovery for injured or sick personnel, or as an Adventurous Training Instructor in mountaineering, climbing and canoeing, or you may be required to become a Parachute Jumping Instructor, as the RAF provides parachute training for all the UK’s airborne troops, including Special Forces. Like most people in the RAF, you’ll move jobs every few years, and each job is known as a tour. Some of your tours will be as a Physical Training Instructor on an RAF base – but you’ll also have one or more tours in one of the three specialist training areas of parachuting, adventurous training and rehabilitation.

Your first tour

For your first tour you’ll probably be posted to an RAF base where you’ll help with the implementation of physical fitness and recreation programmes. You’ll carry out physical fitness tests, counsel RAF personnel on health and fitness and teach classes.

Your training

Recruit training
Your career will start with nine weeks of recruit training at RAF Halton in Buckinghamshire. The course is designed to help you adjust to a military environment. As well as fitness and military training, you’ll learn about the RAF lifestyle.

Specialist training
The next step is a Specialist Training course of about 29 weeks at the School of Physical Training, Defence College Aeronautical Engineering (DCAE) Cosford near Wolverhampton. The course is designed to qualify you in class instructional techniques, the effects of exercise on the body, leadership, coaching techniques, sports administration and officiating. At the end of this course you’ll have earned the National Pool Lifeguard Qualification, European Computer Driving Licence and be practised in the following exercise based qualifications: Speed Agility Quickness (SAQ) practitioner, Spinning Instructor and Boxercise Instructor.

Ongoing development
As your career progresses, we’ll continue to train you in new skills. There are opportunities to study for a BSc in Physical Activity, Health and Exercise as well as to undertake management and leadership training.

Your future

Prospects
You’ll initially join the RAF for a period of nine years with the rank of acting Corporal. After a year, providing you pass further training courses, you’ll be confirmed in the rank of Corporal. Further promotion to the rank of Sergeant and beyond is by competitive selection.

Transferable skills
The qualifications you can earn are as valuable in the civilian world as they are in the RAF – which means that whenever you decide to leave the RAF, you’ll be well placed to find a job in the physical recreation and leisure industry.

Entry qualifications

Age limits
17½–29

Physical requirements
You must demonstrate an above average ability and knowledge in a wide variety of indoor and outdoor sports and other outdoor pursuits. You must also be able to swim and have an above-average level of cardiovascular and strength fitness.

Academic qualifications
GCSE at Grade C/3 or equivalent in English language is required. You must also have a GCSE/SCE at Grade G/6 in maths. The specialist course for Physical Training Instructors demands high academic standards and you should be prepared for a great deal of work, both written and on computer, along with regular written examinations.

Entry tests
You must pass a test at the AFCO. There is also a specialist test for Physical Training Instructors.
The specialist test lasts three days and takes place at DCAE Cosford. You’ll have several interviews and will be asked to demonstrate your coaching and practical ability in a number of recognised National Sports and on an indoor climbing wall. You will also have to run 1.5 miles, undertake a multi-stage fitness test (‘bleep test’) and do as many press-ups and sit-ups as possible in one minute. Additionally, you will need to complete the following swimming assessment: jump/dive into deep water, swim 50 meters in less than 60 seconds, swim continuously 100m each on front and back, tread water for at least 30 seconds, surface dive to the bottom of the pool (approximately 3 meters) and finally, climb out of the pool unaided.

You will also be asked to give a five-minute talk to the other candidates and members of staff and undertake activities which highlight personal qualities and develop team-building skills. You should bring a swimming costume, towel, tracksuit, indoor and outdoor trainers, shirts and/or vests and shorts. Also, make sure you have sufficient warm clothing to wear on outdoor practical exercises, which immediately follow the 1.5 mile run. Physical Training Instructor 210 3

Nationality
You must have been a citizen of the UK, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland since birth.

Residency
Whether or not you were born in the United Kingdom, you should normally have resided there for the three years immediately preceding your application.

Equal opportunities
The RAF values every individual’s unique contribution, irrespective of race, ethnic origin, religion, gender, sexual orientation or social background.

RAF careers could be based anywhere in the UK, please ensure you are fully aware before applying - are you up for the Challenge?