This qualification is designed to provide learners with the knowledge and skills to ensure safe and effective exercise for patients with a number of medical conditions and common reasons for referral onto a community-based exercise referral scheme.
Provided by our 3-star ‘Enhancing’ Training Provider Partner Fitness Training Scotland, as part of this level 3 diploma learners will receive a course manual and be required to read through specific sections and complete worksheets prior to the course commencing.
Training provider – Fitness Training Scotland
Format – Online
Start date – 22nd, 28th and 29th of March 2026
Practical assessments – 9th and 10th of May 2026 in Blairgowrie
Course duration – three days plus practical assessments
CIMSPA CPD points – 10
Key learning outcomes
- Anatomy and physiology for exercise and health.
- Applying the principles of nutrition to a physical activity programme.
- The principles:
- Of collecting information to plan an exercise referral programme
- Of Risk stratification in exercise referral
- And procedures of record keeping
- How to identify goals with exercise referral patients and instruct, adapt, and review exercise session with these patients.
- How to plan, prepare, monitor and adapt an exercise referral programme with patients and understand the importance of long-term behaviour change for these patients.
- The current healthcare systems in the UK, the exercise referral process, the roles and responsibilities of the professional within an exercise referral scheme and the role and importance of exercise referral, related policies and key documents.
- The concept of a patient centred approach.
- The clinical features of medical conditions relevant to exercise referral programmes.
- The relationship between exercise and specified exercise referral medical conditions.
- The accepted methods for treatment/management of medical conditions relevant to exercise referral programmes.
- How to undertake safe, effective exercise programmes for patients with specified exercise referral medical conditions.
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