Climbing Wall Instructor Assessment

If you would like to teach climbing on artificial climbing walls or mobile climbing towers then this is the course for you.

In this two day course you can get to grips with all the technical skills and safety requirements required to safely supervise people who wish to climb indoors on bouldering walls, roped climbing walls and auto belays.

This course does not cover lead climbing, for that you will need the Climbing Wall Development Instructor scheme which is a higher qualification.

If you are interested in abseiling training you can also do the Climbing Wall Instructor Abseil Module which is an add on module to this course.

PRE-REQUISITES AND REGISTRATION

Mountain Training requires that all students are registered with them prior to commencing the course.

Registration, course guidance notes and other resources are available from Mountain Training.

TRAINING

Climbing Wall Instructor training lasts for two days and will cover:

The Climbing Wall Instructor syllabus

What to expect at assessment

Feedback on your performance and areas to focus on prior to assessment

SYLLABUS

Technical competence (including equipment, belaying, personal skills and background knowledge)

Management and decision making (including planning, managing participants, decision making, knowledge and demonstration of techniques and managing other staff)

Teaching and learning skills

The climbing environment (including access, etiquette and ethics)

CONSOLIDATION

After completing a training course, use the feedback from your course director and the skills checklist to identify syllabus areas you need to practise.

ASSESSMENT

The Climbing Wall Instructor assessment is one day (minimum six hours).

You will be assessed against the syllabus competencies in the candidate handbook.

At the end of the assessment you will receive one of three results:

Pass

Defer (requires a partial reassessment)

Fail (requires a full reassessment)