job specification - Life Cycle UK

Life Cycle UK’s National Standard Instructor recruitment process
Step one: Return your application form and chat to Life Cycle
Before returning your application make sure that you have read the job specification (above), that
you are sure you are who we are looking for and that what we can offer is what you are looking for.
On the strength of your application form and after an informal chat with Jacqui or Frances in the
Life Cycle office, you will be offered a subsidised place on one of our National Standard Instructor
training courses. Offering you a subsidised place means that from what you have told us, we think
you would make a good cycle training instructor. It is not a commitment to offer you work at this
stage.
Step two: National Standard Instructor training course:
This is a nationally recognised certificate and consists of a four-day course which includes both
classroom based and practical activities. To work for Life Cycle you must achieve a Provisional
pass.
The course cost is £450 per person. Life Cycle UK will contribute £150 towards this cost leaving
you a cost of £300. For some candidates we may be able to put a ‘salary sacrificing’ arrangement
into place whereby Life Cycle UK will pay the £300 cost of the course up front and you pay it back
from your earnings over 3 or 4 months. Please remember that this is a nationally recognised
qualification and you take it with you when you leave Life Cycle.
Step three: Decision on you joining the freelance team:
At the end of the Instructor training course the Instructor Trainer gives the office information on
your overall performance and suitability for the kinds of work we have on offer. Your Instructor
Trainer will have worked as a cycle trainer for us for many years and is best placed to assess if
you would make a successful trainer for us or not.
If the feedback on you was positive then we would invite you to join the freelance team. You
would need to come into the office and meet us (Jacqui & Frances), start your DBS etc.
Additional requirements for Instructors who join the freelance team:
• Observing training:
You must observe 2 sessions of Level 2 training before you take the National Standard Instructor
training course. This is unpaid and for your benefit in helping you to decide if the cycle instructor
role is for you.
If you are already trained you would need to observe 2 sessions of a Level 2 course before you
start work to see the Life Cycle UK Delivery guide in action. This is unpaid and for your benefit in
helping you to decide if working for Life Cycle UK is for you.
On-course mentoring: We would give this to you as soon as possible and would be when you
are working with a National Standard Instructor Trainer. You would work alongside but they would
guide you, support you and feedback to you.