Gavin Painter Email & Phone Number

Hartlepool

My role as a Lifestyle Intervention Officer (LIO) is to work in the local community to promote health & well being. I look to offer support in weight management, nutrition and exercise. I look at barriers affecting people or groups from making these positive behaviour changes and find solutions to help them over come their barriers. These barriers can range from confidence, lack of knowledge, finances, injury, illness or family. Some groups I have set up or work with are:-- Exercise Referral - working on the exercise referral programme helps people who have an injury or illness where exercise could help them. We have classes in the fitness suites, sports halls and swimming pools. We have classes that specialise in specific conditions also including Neuromuscular, COPD, Cancer and Type 2 Diabetes.- Dementia sessions - I work very closely with those living with or supporting those with dementia putting on sessions to help mentally, socially and physically.Body Composition Analysis - Using the set of Tanita Scales we own we offer body composition analysis to the public and to workplaces as a tool to encourage positive behaviour changes. The Tanita Scales give a full body reading including fat/muscles mass, hydration levels, visceral fat and a metabolic age. This allows the individuals to see what exactly is going on in their body and what changes may be best suited to them.Group Exercise Classes - if there is a group or a workplace that have a specific exercise class they would like made accessible to them on a day and time that suits them we look to make this possible by finding the location and instructor.Man V Fat - I helped set up this group as part of a nationwide project aimed at overweight men who are wanting help around weight loss. It involves a weekly weigh in followed by 30 minutes of football. The group was set up to promote weight management and well being whilst also being a great social group.

Brierton Sports Centre

My role as Health & Exercise Activator is to create close links with local business and workplaces to encourage people to become more active, working alongside our Health Trainers and Sport & Physical Activity Officers. This is done through collecting data gathered from the workplace and finding the reasons as to why their activity levels are so low and what barriers are affecting them for exercise. From this we can come up with initiatives to overcome those barriers and allow the workplace to exercise more.

Hartlepool

As well as teaching we run an elite sports scheme in which we bring in the top sports students from the area to help develop and progress them in their sports as well as their studies through 1 to 1 sessions, strength and conditioning and sports specific training.

Hartlepool 6th Form College is one of the top sporting colleges in the North East region. we run a number of academies from football (boys & girls), netball, badminton and rugby. I help run the rugby academy which is set up to give players a small taste of what being an elite athlete may be like. We train 4 times a week with training varying from contact sessions, skill based sessions, gym sessions, recovery sessions or video analysis. With a weekly competitive fixture in the North East elite league and regular participants in the National 10's rugby series. we also have a state of the art fitness suite to which I run and we get all the athletes in to teach them about strength and conditioning and the benefits to recovery sessions.

Btec National Diploma In Sport & Exercise Science, Sport

Diploma, Teaching In The Lifelong Learning Sector, Pass

This is a pre-service teacher training course for the post-compulsory education sector. It is designed for people who wish to start.