Overview

MSC has its own training, assessment certification and re-validation process for volunteer instructors.

Instructors work their way through a graduated training scheme, beginning as an outdoor member. The Outdoor Leader qualification is the entry level into MSC as an instructor - it is the level of those persons who are organising and leading day tramps on clearly formed tracks and/or leading overnight camps close to road or track ends. Click here to download the Outdoor Leader Award pamphlet.

Appointment as a full instructor in any of the disciplines is on the basis of competence assessed against national criteria, and instructors obtain qualifications. Apart from the firearm instructors, all instructors must also have a current Outdoor First Aid certificate, have attended a Risk Management course, and accrued a specified number of days experience as (co)instructor or (co)leader.

MSC's programme managers oversee the training programmes, maintain national training standards, support MSC branches in the appointment of instructors, and ensure that branches take responsibility for training potential instructors.

Where an instructor reaches a stage when they are unable to give formal time to a branch, for instance firearms testing at a police station, they can be nominated as an advisor.