It builds on the skills acquired in the Rock Climbing Instructor qualification, which candidates must hold.

 

                    

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Registrations for this scheme will be available to candidates from 2nd April 2019.    

Registration for the Rock Climbing Development Instructor scheme is an application process and you need to meet the following prerequisites:

• You must be a qualified Rock Climbing Instructor.
• You must have delivered a minimum of 20 days as a Rock Climbing Instructor at a variety of venues and with a variety of groups, recorded in DLOG.
• You must have led a minimum of 60 named single pitch routes using leader placed protection in three different climbing areas at VS 4c or above and logged them in DLOG. You may include full multi-pitch routes using leader placed protection (up to 50% of the requirement).
• You must have led a minimum of 60 sport climbs in three different climbing areas at 6a or above and logged them in DLOG. Up to 50% of this experience can be outside the UK and Ireland.

If you can meet all of the above requirements, here's what to do next:

• Log in to our Candidate Management System or if in Ireland log into your MTBI Login
• Register for the Rock Climbing Development Instructor scheme (this costs €67)
• Notify Mountain Training (via the 'Send to Mountain Training' button on the 'Share' tab in DLOG) or permissions tab in your MI DLOG that your DLOG is ready to be reviewed

A technical officer will then review your experience in DLOG and if it meets the minimum requirements, you will be notified by email that your registration on the scheme has been approved. 

Applications with less than the minimum experience cannot be approved. 

If your application is not successful, you will receive feedback on how best to fulfil the experience requirements and your registration application will be held open until your successful registration.

 

Training course bookings must not be made until your Rock Climbing Development Instructor registration application has been approved by Mountain Training.

Rock Climbing Development Instructor training lasts for 4 days and will be run by one of our approved providers in the UK or Ireland.  

 

During the period between training and assessment, you are expected to reflect upon and evaluate your skills and techniques in preparation for assessment. You should seek a wide variety of quality experiences to help you achieve this. 

Undertaking or observing only similar sessions to those experienced before training is unlikely to be the best way to consolidate the new skills and techniques learnt. 

See the next tab for the minimum requirements for assessment. It is expected that the consolidation period will take in excess of 12 months.

 

Post training and before presenting yourself for assessment:

• You must have logged a minimum of 10 rock climbing teaching days with students at a variety of outdoor venues.
• You must have led a minimum of 30 single pitch routes using leader placed protection in three different climbing areas at VS 4c or above and recorded them in DLOG. You may include full multi-pitch routes using leader placed protection (up to 50% of the requirement).
• You must have led a minimum of 30 sport climbs in three different climbing areas at 6a or above and recorded them in DLOG. Up to 50% of this experience can be outside the UK and Ireland.
• 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.

Rock Climbing Development Instructor assessment is 3 days long. 

Assessments are run by one of our approved providers and a variety of cost packages are available, depending on what's included; food, accommodation, etc. so you can choose one that's right for you.