Who can be an endorsement delegate, should be checked with SLSSA Member Education Staff yearly, as there may be changes from year to year depending on what is required for each award.

An endorsed delegate must:

• Be at least 18 years of age

• Be proficient in the award that they are assessing skills maintenance in

• Be familiar with the process of reasonable adjustment

• Adhere to the program of skills maintenance requested by the SLS club

• Complete required paperwork accurately and return in a timely manner.

The exception to this is that all Powercraft award holders (except IRB Crew ) must be observed by qualified Assessors.

Endorsed delegates should be selected on the basis of expertise in the awards being assessed and willingness to adhere to the expected standard of a SLS Assessor.

For example:

• A trainer who is not yet a qualified assessor in the award

• Patrol captains may assess skills in rescue techniques, radio use and signals;

• IRB Drivers may assess IRB Crew skills;

• First aid or ART trainers may assess resuscitation skills.

Where club members are qualified emergency medical or ambulance officers, they may also assess resuscitation and advanced resuscitation skills

1. Endorsed delegate’s full names should be minuted at a Club Executive Meeting annually.

2. Chief Instructors, or where a club does not have anyone nominated in the CI role, Club President or Secretary needs to submit an Endorsed Delegate Request form (linked below) to the Member Ed team, who will allocate the appropriate award. Ie Endorsed Delegate Bronze, Endorsed Delegate ART, etc.

They will need to:

• Read over all relevant Skills Maintenance documentation

• Be briefed prior to conducting any assessment on:

  • What skills maintenance activities are to be run

  • The skills they are required to assess

  • The key competencies they should be looking for in assessing skills (e.g. depth and rate of compressions in CPR, personal safety and victim care in a tube rescue, safely navigating conditions on a board, operational knowledge of radio use)

  • The process of reasonable adjustment including when and how it might be applied

  • What to do when someone does not demonstrate the requirements to become proficient

    • It is recommended that these ‘hard conversations’ be left to the Chief Instructor or assessor and not an Endorsed Delegate.

  • Be given access to and shown how to use the Assessing app

    • The online tool used to record assessment results (Refer to the SLSA Assessing App User Guide for instructions on how to use the app. These are available on the SLSA IT Helpdesk website)

• Be shown what paperwork needs to be completed, if assessment is not completed online, and who paperwork should be returned to, by when.

The following access is given automatically in the Assessing app:

• An assessor in any award is given automated access to that award.

• A Bronze Assessor can assess Resuscitation, SRC and Bronze

The Endorsed Delegate Award needs to be allocated to the following, if approved to do so by their club:

• A trainer in an award, can be allocated as an Endorsed Delegate for that award

• A Bronze Trainer or Assessor, can be allocated Endorsed Delegate for SMAR

• A member who is not a Trainer or Assessor but holds a Club role, holds the knowledge and understanding to assess the award, respects the role of an Endorsed Delegate and is approved by the club to be endorsed (examples of suitable roles – Patrol Captain, Club Captain, IRB Captain).

Yes. Like other awards, the Endorsed Delegate Award only lasts 12months, and clubs need to go through the process of selecting Endorsed Delegate status annually.

This normally means that there is something preventing them from being added i.e. don’t have a current endorsed delegate award.

To resolve:

• Check to see if they have a current Endorsed Delegate Award for that award.

• If they don’t, get approval from the club and submit an Endorsed Delegate Request form

• If they do, email the Member Ed team with details of the event you are trying to add them to, and their name and the team will look into it. If they can’t resolve, they will need to contact SLS IT Support and log a IT Support ticket

To access the Assessing App Guide, click here.