Frequently Asked Questions

If the answer to any of the following questions is yes, then you are someone the we would love to hear from you:

• Do you want to develop your skills as a sports coach?
• Do you enjoy helping others to improve their performance and their levels of fitness?
• Are you considering a career in coaching?
• Have you got the desire and commitment to be the best coach you can be?
• Are you willing to learn and develop your skills?
• Do you want to pass on your coaching skills to other coaches?

Register and complete your details on the online application form. Once completed you will then be part of Coaching West Yorkshire and helping us provide a better coaching support structure. While you don't need to complete all the details on the online application to register, the more details you provide the better able we will be to offer the right benefits and opportunities to you. It should take 20-30 minutes to fully enter all your details.

We provide opportunities to attend training courses, continuous professional development (CPD) courses and help and advice to all who need it.

Yes, due to regulations Coaching West Yorkshire will only be inviting people over 16 to apply and join. There is no upper age limit for joining and we welcome people from a wide range of sports, ages and backgrounds.

Try our Help Registering page, where you will find a link to a short online tutorial and other tips to help you.

Coaching West Yorkshire is an online based coaching system to assist the recruitment, employment and deployment of coaches across the county, and in doing so create a career path to help professionalise coaching and increase the quality of the coaching delivered in West Yorkshire. It is also a one-stop shop for information on coaching. It is being developed and implemented by West Yorkshire Sport, the county sports partnership, in conjunction with our local authority and other partners.

If the above explanations do not answer your queries on the agency, please contact Coaching West Yorkshire by either emailing your query to les.ford@wysport.co.uk or by phoning 01484 234087.

The potential benefits for a recruiter (employer, deployer or placement provider) registering with Coaching West Yorkshire are:

• Access to quality sports coaches
• You will have the opportunity of viewing profiles and CV's from a number of coaches (if available)
• You will be able to provide feedback about the coach online
• You will be informing us of the types of coaches required in West Yorkshire so we can coordinate the right training and development for coaches - helping to ensure the right coaches are avaialble for you in the future.

We can provide newsletters to keep your organisation's knowledge up to speed with all the latest developments in the Coaching and Sports Development fields. We can provide training opportunities for coaches already working in your organisation. We also can give help and advice of where to look for coaches, and the types of sessions that we have the highest number of coaches in and would be able to supply to you quickly.

NOTHING!!

Coaching West Yorkshire will require a Recruiter to have a completed application form on the website (including addresses and key contact information of all sites) before a coach can be placed. After the session we require someone who observed the session to complete an evaluation on the coach online, which will provide us with valuable feedback.

N.B. The coach will also be asked to provide an evaluation on their recruiter, which will allow a good employer to build up a portfolio of positive comments, which will attract good quality coaches to work there.

No. To gain access to Coaching West Yorkshire a user must have an account; no personal information can be accessed on Coaching West Yorkshire without an individual login created by a system administrator. Our system is part of the national CoachWeb system, but your details are only available to partners in West Yorkshire. There is no single file or document that can be downloaded, stored on a memory stick or emailed to third parties.

Any partner organisations that you link-up or "Affiliate" with may access you details. So if, for example, you currently coach in Leeds but wanted to be available for coaching work in Calderdale, you could request that they would be able to see your details. However, it is the coach that chooses which 'affiliate' has access to their details. To manage which organisations have access to your details you may login and navigate to the "Tailor Our Service" section of your application form.

If you want to be available to coach outside of West Yorkshire in another county that operates CoachWeb, you can ask to have your details made available in that area too.

There is only one CoachWeb system and so West Yorkshire Sport has joined a network of organisations in sport that are using a centralised coach database. The idea is to remove the need to complete application form after application form, rather you may simply select with which organisation you wish to share your profile. The questions asked vary depending on which application form you are completing.

In terms of the amount of details requested, you can choose how much to complete. A coach seeking employment would need to complete full details to allow us to ensure coaches meet minimum standards and match them to the coaching opportunities available.

For coaches not looking for coaching opportunities, the additional details (training, experience, training needs, etc) is used to help us build up a better picture of coaching provision and the coaching workforce within the county. It will also help us tailor the support we can offer by knowing what coaches need in terms of CPD. These will be used collectively for research and planning our support, and to ensure coaches get to hear about development opportunities that are relevant to them. Again it is the coach that chooses whether or not he receives updates on training, coaching opportunities etc from us by selecting the relevant options on the 'Tailor our Service' page.

The CoachWeb servers are in the UK mainland hosted by a company called Rackspace (www.rackspace.co.uk). CoachWeb is run by an organisation called Byng Systems (www.byng-systems.com) who own the software code and run maintenance on the server.

The CoachWeb servers run enterprise Cisco firewalls to prevent unauthorised access to the systems and database. Furthermore externals tests are run against the system to validate the security of the systems. For more details queries please direct your queries to support@byng-systems.com.