
Rock Climbing Instructor Assessment
Course Overview We aim to ensure you have a relaxed and informative assessment where you come away having learned lots too. This course is delivered by highly qualified and professional instructors with a vast array of experience delivering Mountain Training courses. Assessments for us are all about setting an atmosphere in which everyone feels welcome and able to perform at their best with the minimum of stress. We know assessments are a challenge – we’ve been there! So we work hard to ensure you get the best out of yourself when it matters, making the assessment experience as relaxed and enjoyable as possible. Assessment Course Content Rock Climbing Instructors should be competent in the following key areas, all of which will be covered, to a greater or lesser extent, during your training course. • Technical Competence (including equipment, anchors, belaying, personal skills, abseiling, background knowledge) • Management and Decision Making (including planning, organising, managing other staff, managing participants, knowledge and demonstration of techniques) • Teaching Skills • The Climbing Environment (including access, conservation, etiquitte and ethics) Course Pre-requisites Before you book a Rock Climbing Instructor assessment course, please make sure you have done the following: • You must have attended a Rock Climbing Instructor (or Single Pitch Award) training course or been granted exemption from training. • You must be familiar with the syllabus. • You must be competently leading Severe grade climbs on outdoor crags with leader-placed protection. • You must have led a minimum of 40 graded rock climbs with traditional protection at a variety of venues (of which at least 20 MUST be at Severe grade or above). • You must be proficient in the use of climbing walls and have a minimum of 30 climbing wall leads graded at F4 or above. • You must be proficient in outdoor bolt-protected sport climbing and have a minimum of 10 sport climb leads graded at F4 or above. • You must have assisted in the supervision of 20 instructed sessions. These sessions should be at a variety of different venues with 10 being on indoor climbing walls and the other 10 on outdoor crags. A session is a half day or evening. At least five of these sessions must have personal reflective comments recorded on DLOG. (For guidance see question 3 in the DLOG section on this page.) • You must have physically attended and completed (i.e. not online) a first aid course which involved at least two full days or sixteen hours of instruction and included an element of assessment. Course Duration: 2 Days.