Over the past few weeks, my supervisor and I have been communicating back and forth through email to help finalise a placement in Stirling for this year. We have had a single one to one meeting in Stirling where we discussed upcoming opportunities at specific sport coaching sessions and events. I requested to volunteer at sport coaching sessions mainly because I already have an HNC and an HND in sport coaching and I knew that this would be well within my comfort zone.  As I also live in Glasgow, we further decided that it would be beneficial to keep a lot of my volunteer hours within one day a week to help save on petrol and travel time.

Furthermore, we talked about the career path I would likely be taking in around a years time. I discussed the fact that I wanted to potentially go back to university and study Physiotherapy, preferably in England around the Manchester area. Revealing this to my supervisor actually helped with another potential volunteer opportunity arising out with the sport coaching environment. I may be allowed to shadow a health advisor at the Peak, who gives advice to people that have been referred from the NHS about things like movement after injury and nutrition plans. As this would help me gain much needed experience in this field for next year, I was extremely keen on this potential extra opportunity.

Our next meeting will hopefully sort out my PVG checks before finalising my hours.

Amy