Power and Sail Instructor Required

[Doug Stormforce]

FULL-TIME SAILING, POWERBOAT & SHOREBASED INSTRUCTOR

Stormforce Coaching is recruiting an instructor to deliver a range of powerboat and sailing courses. This is a full-time position based in Southampton with occasional work overseas.

Essential Requirements

• RYA Yachtmaster Offshore (Sail/commercial)
• RYA Powerboat Instructor
• RYA Cruising Instructor (Sail) or ready to qualify
• RYA Shorebased Instructor or ready to qualify
• RYA SRC Assessor or ready to qualify
• Experience of skippering and/or instructing in the Solent
• Full UK driving license
• Experience of maintaining small craft

Desirable but not essential requirements

• RYA Yachtmaster Instructor (Sail)
• RYA Advanced Powerboat Instructor
• RYA PWC Instructor
• RYA Dinghy Senior Instructor
• RYA Yachtmaster Offshore Power (or Instructor)
• Minimum age 25

Duties

This position will suit someone who would like to develop and grow within a small business. The opportunity to gain further coaching skills and qualifications is available. We believe strongly in personal development, we have work both here in the UK and overseas and are involved in all of the RYA training schemes. While the position is principally instructing and skippering basic duties include:

• Delivery of sailing, powerboating and shorebased courses
• Duty Instructor in the absence of Principal and Chief Instructor
• Occasional charter and delivery skipper
• Premises maintenance as required
• Fleet maintenance as required
• Office work as required


Remuneration and basic terms

• The salary is negotiable and dependent on current experience and qualifications but as a guide the starting salary is likely to be £15.5K to £16.5K for a Cruising Instructor or £16 to £17.5K for a Yachtmaster Instructor.
• Average five day working week (hours as required) and will involve some weekends
• 24 days annual leave including bank/public holidays.
• Additional training provided
• Start date flexible
• The employee may not take on any other paid work without the Principal's permission.

Application
In the first instance please email recruitment@stormforce.biz with CV, current employment
details, current salary/wages, available start date and passport photo.

[hurricane]

Doug if you were to find someone with the whole list of required qualifications who was under 25 would you be un-interested in employing them?

I hope this doesnt seem like a smart ass question!

[Poly]

Originally Posted by hurricane

Doug if you were to find someone with the whole list of required qualifications who was under 25 would you be un-interested in employing them?

I hope this doesnt seem like a smart ass question!

Well I hope he has an "objective justification" otherwise he is breaking the law!

[Jimbo]

Originally Posted by Polwart

Well I hope he has an "objective justification" otherwise he is breaking the law!

I would hazard a guess that it has to do with vehicle insurance.

[hurricane]

Its just i know two people with all of the above qualifications and many with nearly all of the above mentioned. The youngest is only 19 so I wondered what the reason for the must be 25 qualification is?

[Poly]

Originally Posted by hurricane

Its just i know two people with all of the above qualifications and many with nearly all of the above mentioned. The youngest is only 19 so I wondered what the reason for the must be 25 qualification is?

Actually he doesn't say MUST he says "desirable but not essential".

[Poly]

Originally Posted by Jimbo

I would hazard a guess that it has to do with vehicle insurance.

mmm but unless it is impossible to get insurance then it would not be an objective justification; simply being more expensive is not enough! [And if it were impossible presumably it would be in the "must be" not "would be nice to be" section!]

However Doug - on a more constructive note - if you are needing someone to drive & tow trailers you might want to expand the driving requirement to include the relevant categories.

[Doug Stormforce]

The main reason for the age is as Jimbo identified the Insurance for driving. I have not found a commercial vehicle policy that matches all of my requirments and covers drivers aged under 25. Im not saying their is not one but certainly our insurance company don't cover under 25s for driving, (we have a combined public liabilty for sail and power, employeres liability, boat insurance, centre insurance and commercail vehicle)

Polwart

Good point re towing endorsement on license.

Regarding under 25s, we have said desirable not essentail. We have a wish list for a new employee, but are flexable enough to realise that someone who fits most of the criteria would be an asset.

Hurricane

We will consider under 25s, our outgoing instructor was 21 when he started (now 25). If you know someone who migt be intrested please point them in our direction

[hurricane]

Doug I will do - I was not being a smart arse by asking I just wondered why, I can fully understand the issues with under 25s insurance!

Dont get me started on the stupid money I have to pay for insurance just so these wide boy racer chavs can go and crash their car into a hedge the day after they have bought it! Grrr talk about one spoiling it for the rest!