In this topic, we're going to look at facility management--
so managing large sport and aquatic centre facilities--
and community recreation, and the different qualification
levels for those careers.
So with facility management, and again, thinking about a
sports and aquatic centre, they tend to be combined,
although it may just be a basketball
stadium, for example.
A certificate three qualified person will again be working
in a supervised environment.
So they might be working on reception, they might be doing
some administration related to that facility.
They're working at a fairly introductory level.
The certificate four person, though, may well be a shift
supervisor.
So they might be in charge one evening, perhaps, when the
rest of the centre management have gone home, the
certificate four person's left in charge of the basketball
tournament, and when it's over, they close up the centre
and they head for home.
And again, the diploma, the degree, and the higher level
qualified person is the facility manager.
Coming back to the certificate four person for minute, the
shift supervisor, they may have some management roles.
So they might be organising the staff roster, and working
out who's going to cover what shifts.
But the manager, the higher qualified manager, is overall
in charge of the facility.
Now these facilities, these sport and recreation
facilities, there's a few interesting trends occurring
across the industry.
One is that there's a gradual shift from 50 metre outdoor
swimming pools, to a smaller 25 metre pool,
and often it's indoors.
And these smaller 25 metre pools are cheaper to instal
and to operate.
And the local councils who are the supporters of this side of
the industry-- it's really local councils and perhaps the
YMCA who are the big owners or managers or operators of these
facilities.
They're tending to go for the smaller 25 metre pools.
And that's having a flow on effect into the sports
industry, obviously, because these smaller 25 metre
facilities often don't have a diving board attached to them,
so diving is not an option.
They may be too shallow to play water polo in.
So often they're only chest-deep at the deep end,
they're not over people's heads.
So we're losing the opportunity for people to be
involved in those sports.
With community recreation, we're really talking about--
and these might be programme offices who
work within a facility.
So they might be running a youth group based programme
after school or of an evening, for kids to come and they
might do a variety of sports.
So they might play basketball one week, they play indoor
soccer another week, they run a mini indoor netball
tournament.
They might go on excursions and outings on the weekends or
school holidays.
They're a community recreation officer.
They're encouraging the community to be involved.
They may do the same thing for seniors--
running programmes for seniors to be active and involved, and
trying to get people out of that 60% and being involved in
some sort of physical activity.
So again, a certificate three qualified community recreation
person is working under supervision.
So they're working in an assistant role.
And it may be that when the committee recreation officer
is taking a group of children on an exclusion, they need two
or three adults to come with them, and they'll call on the
certificate three qualified people.
These certificate three qualified people might also be
involved in a programme like Active After-Schools, which is
a sports and activity-based programme for
kids in primary school.
When they're finished school for the day, they might spend
an hour or two doing an active after school programme, which
involves playing games in and doing sport.
But it's not a particular sport focus, it's just a
general keeping active.
So the certificate four person is unsupervised, or they're
running the programme.
So they're saying, OK, on Monday night,
we're going to do this.
And next Monday night, we're going to do that.
They're coordinating and developing that programme.
They might have to promote the programme so that they have
enough clients or kids or adults being
involved in that programme.
So there's a bit of a management role to it, but
they're working underneath someone at a higher level.
And it might be someone who has a higher level community
recreation qualification, or it might be this manager.
So either of those managers might be overseeing the
community recreation officer in their facility.
Now that we've got an understanding of facility
management in community recreation, we're going to
take a look at outdoor recreation.