Training

Carnegie Weight Management, part of Carnegie Faculty of Sport and Education, provides training packages which provides health/fitness professionals and organisations with the necessary skills to undertake the effective delivery of a children’s weight management programme.  

The programme includes a 5-day taught and a 12-week on-the-job training component which runs alongside the Carnegie Clubs community healthy lifestyle programme so that the intervention programme can be handed over to an organisation’s staff successfully. In addition, there will be continued support from Carnegie Weight Management through regular training programmes and evaluations to ensure programme quality and effective delivery.

Carnegie Weight Management currently delivers three types of training or workshop, for health and fitness professionals

 

Vocational Certificate in Weight Management

Is a programme designed for those people and organisations that are interested in setting up a Carnegie Club in their local community. A team of staff will gain the necessary knowledge, skills, and support in order to enable them to deliver an effective healthy lifestyles programme for children and their families.

The training package we currently offer consists of three elements which are:

Taught component

Staff complete a 5 day taught component which will provide them with a clear understanding of the field of childhood obesity and provide a comprehensive introduction to the carnegie club programme.

Delivery component

On completion of the taught component, staff will deliver a Carnegie Club under the careful guidance of experienced Carnegie Club staff, which will be provided by Carnegie Weight Management.  
 
Reflective practice

Staff will then undertake a reflective practice of their experience delivering the club with the Carnegie weight management team.  Following successful completion of each of the three phases staff will be awared a Leeds Metropolitan University Vocational Certification in Weight Management.

Obesity Awareness Workshop

Participants complete a 3 hour ½ day workshop which aims to increase their knowledge and understanding of the current issues associated with childhood obesity, which include the prevelance and consequences, the causes and solutions.

Bespoke Training Packages

The training package is designed to disseminate best practices which will enable the effective delivery of the Carnegie Clubs programme in a variety of environments and communities throughout the UK, with year round support from Carnegie Weight Management.

Working with PCTs & Schools

We are very familiar with the limited funding and allocation of resources that PCTs and schools have when it comes to addressing childhood obesity.  However we are able to work with you strategically and collaboratively too ensure that the investment and potential success of implementing the Carnegie Clubs into your range of services will be recognised by the key decision makers of your organisation.  

How we can help

For more information on training packages and workshops contact us at CarnegieWeightManagement@leedsmet.ac.uk