YMCA Level 3 Diploma in Exercise Referral (603/3103/3)
The qualification aims to equip the learner with the skills, knowledge and understanding required to plan and instruct programmes for exercise referral.
YMCA Level 3 Diploma in Exercise Referral
Qualifications Type
Population Specialism
Population specialisms build on the knowledge and skills of occupational qualifications, enabling learners to expand their scope of practice to work with a broader range of clients with more complex needs e.g. children, older adults, individuals with disabilities/impairments etc.
Qualification Number (QN)
603/3103/3
Availability
Operational start date – 1 May 2018
Operational end date – 31 July 2025
Certification end date – 31 July 2027
Latest version of qualification – YMCA Level 3 Diploma in Supporting Participation in Physical Activity: Long-Term Health Conditions (610/4680/2)
Entry Requirements
- Occupational qualification
Assessments
- Worksheets:
- Medical condition tables
- Activity guideline tables
- Consultation
- Exercise referral programme
- Programme review
- Letter to a healthcare professional
- Session plan
- Observation of practical delivery
- Multiple choice theory tests:
- Assessment workbooks: Nutritional consultation
Endorsement
Overview
The aim of this qualification is to equip learners with the knowledge, skills and understanding required to plan and instruct programmes for exercise referral.
This qualification provides learners with access to Exercise Referral Instructor roles and enables them to expand their scope of practice to work with a broader range of clients.
Qualification details
Learners will cover:
- Anatomy and physiology knowledge as applicable to personal training.
- Nutrition and its application to support a client’s health and physical activity programme
- How to collect and use information relating to nutrition.
- The relationship between nutrition and physical activity, the principles and guidelines relating to nutrition and nutritional goal setting with clients, and the nationally recommended practice to provide nutritional advice.
- The principles of collecting information to plan an exercise referral programme, the principles of risk stratification in exercise referral, and the principles and procedures of record keeping.
- How to identify goals with exercise referral patients and instruct, adapt and review exercise session with these patients. How to plan, prepare, monitor and adapt an exercise referral programme with patients and understand the importance of long-term behaviour change for these patients.
- The current healthcare systems in the UK, the exercise referral process, the roles and responsibilities of the professional within an exercise referral scheme, and the role and importance of exercise referral, related policies and key documents.
- The concept of a patient-centred approach.
- The clinical features of medical conditions relevant to exercise referral programmes, the relationship between exercise and specified exercise referral medical conditions, the accepted methods for treatment/management of medical conditions relevant to exercise referral programmes, and how to programme safe and effective exercise programmes for patients with specified exercise referral medical conditions.
- Collect and analyse nutritional information and apply the principles of nutrition to a physical activity programme.
- Collect information about exercise referral patients and prepare patients and resources for exercise referral sessions.
- Instruct, adapt, conclude and review exercise referral sessions. Agree goals, plan, manage, review progress and adapt an exercise referral programme with exercise referral patients.
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