Whether you’re working in the sector, employing those who do, or delivering sport and physical activity education and qualifications, professional status changes everything.
At CIMSPA, we want to ensure that professionals working in sport and physical activity are recognised for their exceptional work in improving the health of the nation by peers, employers, the public and professionals in other sectors.
To help make professional recognition a reality, we have introduced professional status.
I’m an individual professional
Your professional status shows what you are capable of – your knowledge and skills within your role, your specialist expertise and your level of experience and impact. It helps you to stand out from the crowd, open doors for your career and progress to where you want to be.
Whether you’re a personal trainer, a duty manager or anything else, show your professional status to employers, to clients, to parents and to your peers to demonstrate that you are qualified, dedicated and deliver excellent sport and physical activity experiences.
I’m an educator
When your education products are aligned to the sector’s professional standards, you are supporting your learners to gain or progress their professional status.
Employers will also be using professional status to shape job descriptions. This means that you are offering stand-out employability benefits through your qualifications and CPD, with clear and direct links between your products and an individual being able to gain their first role in the sector or move forwards in their career.
I’m an employer
Professional status optimises how you manage your workforce. Use it in job descriptions to recruit with ease and create development plans around status progression to train, support and retain your professionals while resolving skills gaps within your organisation.
When your team has professional status, this is a clear indication of your workforce’s expertise to the healthcare sector, increasing your potential for new collaborations, and to customers, giving them confidence to choose your services.
Why CIMSPA?
As the professional body for the sector that is recognised on the government’s Regulated Profession Register, CIMSPA has worked with professionals, employers and other stakeholders across the sector to develop criteria for issuing professional status to professionals working in the sector, whether that be as a practitioner, manager or senior leader.
This means that you can be certain that professional status issued by CIMSPA demonstrates knowledge, skills and experience held by professionals, valued by employers and supported by high-quality education providers.