Application Form for Home Countries Referee Instructor

This application form will be used to process your application for the role of Instructor or Instructor and mentor, please complete it as per the instructions. If you are applying to be both instructor and mentor please answer the mentor based questions as well.


Please note that all applications are subject to safeguarding checks.

Equality, Divisity and inclusion Statement

We aspire to be an inclusive organisation. Our ambition is to promote a supportive and inclusive environment which creates a diverse and vibrant workforce and volunteer group to support the aims of the organisation and further develop the sport. We seek to reflect the diverse demographics of our membership within our refereeing community and therefore encourage candidates from all backgrounds, who meet the essential criteria for these roles to apply.

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Weapon and referee levels (please tick all that apply)

Referee Levels - Foil

Please tick all the referee levels you currently hold

Referee Level - Epee
Referee Level - Sabre

Please list your last 10 refereeing experiences with dates where possible, you may use bullet points

Are you already on the Mentor's Register*

Wheelchair Fencing Referees

Wheelchair Fencing Qualifications

We are aiming to offer wheelchair refereeing education alongside able-bodied. If you are already trained as a wheelchair referee would you be interested in acting as a wheelchair fencing mentor, please indicate below

Please list what wheelchair fencing referee qualifications you already hold below;

Wheelchair Referee Training Request

If you do not currently hold any wheelchair fencing refereeing qualifications would you be interested in being trained as a wheelchair fencing referee

Supporting evidence for your application

To demonstrate that you possess the skills and qualities for the role(s) you are applying for, please answer the following competency based questions and simple hypothetical scenario as honestly and authentically as possible. This can be using situations you have encountered within either your professional or fencing experiences If you have no encountered the scenario before, please answer it as how you WOULD manage the situation. You can use bullet points to illustrate your answers

Please briefly outline why you think you are suitable for the role of referee instructor, or the dual role of instructor and mentor

Briefly outline your relevant (or transferable) skills and experience that would support your role as a referee instructor or referee instructor and mentor

What are your motivations for applying to be a referee instructor ? What have you enjoyed from being in an educating role?

Briefly describe your own refereeing Continual Professional Development (CPD) that has enabled you to stay up to date with the current rules and insights. This can include watching FIE videos, attending seminars (local or regional) and self organised peer group discussions.

Scenario

As a referee instructor you will also need to be able to use what are known as "soft skills" such as empathy, collaboration, conflict management and effective communication, below is an scenario that will enable you to demonstrate such skills. Please answer using either a fencing or personal experience

What was the situation? What action did you undertake? What was the outcome? Would you do anything differently next time?

please indicate if you already hold a criminal record check for your Home Country below.

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Data collected through this form will be held in accordance with the British Fencing Privacy Policy that can be found here: https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/gdpr-data-protection/.

The personal data you have provided in this form will be used by BF for the following purposes: To contact you in relation to the information provided on this form and your referee instructor application. BF will store and retain the personal data you have provided in this form for up to 24 months after your application.

Under the Data Protection Act, 2018, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you. BF tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.

This Privacy Notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of the BF’s collection and use of personal information. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any requests for this should be sent to the Data Protection Officer at the address below.

If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information, you should also contact the Data Protection Officer at the address below. Access to your data BF tries to be as open as we can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information.

Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’ under the Data Protection Act 2018. If we do hold information about you, we will:

• give you a description of it;

• tell you why we are holding it;

• tell you who it could be disclosed to; and

• let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.

Errors If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes by, once again, contacting the Data Protection Officer as detailed below.

Erasure You can also ask us to delete the data we hold about you by, once again contacting the Data Protection Officer as detailed below.

How to contact us: If you want to see BF’s Privacy Statement and full Privacy Policy you can find these on the website in the Policies section at the foot of every webpage, https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/gdpr-data-protection/, or you can request a copy by email from the BF Data Protection Officer who can be contacted by email or in writing, details below:

BF Data Protection Officer,

British Fencing Head Office,

1 Baron's Gate 33-35 Rothschild Road,

London W4 5HT or dataprotection@britishfencing.com

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