Advanced White Water Safety Provider

What the Role Entails

As an Advanced White Water Safety Provider you will play a key role in the development of independent paddlers.

You will work with your learners to:

• Raise their safety awareness within advanced water conditions.
• Develop their incident management strategies.
• Avoid problems.
• Creat solutions.

What will you do as an Advanced White Water Safety Provider?

First of all you will provide AWWSR courses, but there is a lot more to the role! for instance:

• Providing your learners with a clear development plan.
• Acting as an ambassador for British Canoeing Awarding Body Qualifications and Paddles Up Training.
• Supporting the continuous personal development of coaches and leaders through safety workshops.

What does the development process look like?

Your development to becoming an AWWSR Provider begins with your application. If you are successful then you will be able to begin to prepare for your orientation day. To get the most out of your orientation, we recommend that you have worked through the becoming an AWWSR Provider Support Document.

You should also familiarise yourself with the course syllabus and information which can be found here. The orientation day itself will give you the chance to work alongside other aspirant providers as well as a National Trainer.

Being a successful provider will involve:

• Being able to coach safety skills to a range of participants, across a range of environments.
• Delivering a wide range of Personal Performance Awards in an advanced water environment.
• Actively coaching and leading in an advanced environment in a kayak.
• Being able to give feedback to your learners and support their development.
• Once qualified, support aspirant providers to progress their provider status.

Maintaining the Role

On becoming an AWWSR Provider, you will be required to follow and agree to the Provider Service Agreement. This includes following the Update Scheme.

You will also be expected to attend a moderation event every 3 years; this is to keep you up to date with, and to share best practice with, other AWWSR Providers. You will also be expected to run a minimum of 1 course every 3 years to keep your role up to date.

Want to know more?

The British Canoeing Awarding Body White Water Safety and Rescue Course suite of awards are currently under review, we expect to have more information over the summer of 2023.

If you would like to express your interest in the new awards please complete an application form ensuring you detail your white water and tutoring experience  and we will share further information with you as it is available.

Applications for new AWWSR providers will take place each April from 2024