COURSE INFORMATION

Following on from the HNC: Sports Coaching and Developing, this course is designed to continue to develop and support your pursuit of a career within sports coaching and sports development. You must have passed HNC: Sports Coaching and Developing in order to be enrolled on this course.

  • Health & Wellbeing for Sports Performance 
  • Performance Practice
  • Observation and Analytic Skills
  • Communication skills
  • Supporting, Mentoring, Motivational and Role Model Skills
  • Working effectively with different ages, stages and abilities
  • Ethical Practitioner 
  • One year full-time

Core Units

  • Fitness conditioning in sport
  • Sports mechanics
  • Improving coaching in sport
  • Coaching of sports performance development
  • Sports development and research
  • Coaching and development sport: graded units 2 and 3

Optional Units

  • Nutrition for fitness, health and exercise
  • Strength and conditioning for sports performance
  • Psychology of sports performance
  • Inclusive sport coaching
  • Managing a sport or fitness related event
  • Managing volunteers
  • Direct entry into year 2 (HND) requires the full, successful completion of the related HNC with 15 SQA credits.

  • For applicants who do not currently have the full 15 SQA credits, please contact us at info@fife.ac.uk for further support on the options available to you to be accepted onto this HND course.

  • You will need a PVG check through Disclosure Scotland in order to go out on the placement(s) as part of this course. 

Successful completion of the HNC/HND may lead to career opportunities which include, but are not confined within the following contexts:

  • Sports coaching and/or activity leadership
  • Active school roles
  • Sports development
  • Disability sports development
  • Fitness/gym staff
  • Leisure centre staff
  • Swimming pool staff
  • Health and fitness staff.

Employers may include the following: local authorities, leisure trusts, National/Sports Governing Bodies (NGB/SGB), local sports organisations, private clubs/hotels.

The practical nature of the course will equip you for work within the promotion and development aspects of sports or sports coaching itself.

  • Fitness and sports related kit is required to take part in practical activities, such as trainers, tracksuit bottoms, training tops, and shorts
  • You will be provided with a Fife College polo shirt, used for leading clients or client groups
  • You may be required to take part in an informal conversation as part of the application process. This group/individual conversation may be an information session, a portfolio discussion, or a skills based exercise