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Reece Ball

Reece Ball

Aberystwyth

Summary

Collaborative and adaptable team player with a proven track record of fostering teamwork and maintaining safety in high-pressure environments, including climbing walls, caving sessions, and water rescue operations. Skilled in cultivating strong working relationships, coordinating efforts to achieve shared goals, and promoting a supportive team culture. Adept at communicating effectively with colleagues and participants, ensuring clarity and alignment in executing tasks and addressing challenges. Committed to creating a safe and inclusive atmosphere that encourages growth, learning, and mutual success within team settings.

Work history

Managing Director

Belong Adventures
Ongoing Employment
  • This start-up needed a versatile and experienced outdoorenthusiast to help build a strong bussiness foundation on whichit could scale and thrive
  • The focus of this role was to make theoutdoors and adventure sports more accessible to a more diverserange of people
  • My most recent project within the company, was a 6-week youthengagement program
  • We worked closely with Warwickshire
  • Council's youth workers to empower young people in the outdoors,providing them the opportunity to pursue hobbys and careers

Lema Boat Centre

Lema Boat Centre
Finished Employment

Led diverse paddle sport trips and courses, including river and sea excursions, games courses, and safety training for stand-up paddleboarding (SUP) and kayaking.
- Ran the corporate team-building raft-building package.
- worked with fellow leaders in high-stress whitewater environments to perform rescues and ensure participant safety."

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Working at heights lead safety

Warwick Sports Hub
Finished Employment



As the Safety Manager for a bustling climbing wall hosting various competitions and events, I played a critical role in ensuring the well-being of route setters working at heights. My responsibilities included:

- Implementing and enforcing safety protocols and procedures for working at heights, including proper use of equipment, fall protection measures, and emergency response plans.
- Managing and delivering training to route setters to ensure they were up-to-date with safety practices
- Collaborating with other staff members to maintain a safe working environment, fostering a culture of safety throughout the facility.
- Responding to safety incidents and executing any rescues on site

During this busy competition season, I performed several rescues, which provided me with greater experience and skill development while working in a high-stress environment.

Activity leader

Summit Centre
Finish Employment

Climbing Safety
This outdoor centre had a busy public wall, which required proactivesafety management and reactive incident management
As leadsafety, I was the person responsible for the wall so my role focussedon maintaining commerical safety standards and best practice.

High Ropes
On site, there were two high ropes courses which I oversaw theoperation of
This included; managing a team of instructors,maintaining safety, and ensuring clients had a great experience

Caving

sessions within an artificial caving environment, I successfully designed and led engaging teamwork activities and confidence-building exercises, fostering a fun and supportive atmosphere for children to grow and develop whilst working in the cave

Instructor

Warwick Sports Hub
Finished Employment
  • Excellent interpersonal skills,allowing me to quickly buildgood rapport with clients
  • Able to maintain high safetystandards across equipmentinspections and walloperations
  • Experienced mentoring fellow instructors,encouraging others to growto their full potential and helping people to work within their limits

Iceland delivery driver

Iceland
Aberystwyth Ongoing Employment
  • Loaded and unloaded at stores and drop off locations, working safely and efficiently to limit disruption to other road users.
  • Kept vehicles safe and roadworthy maintaining and checking the vehicle
  • carrying heavy goods by hand and using equipment when needed

Education

RCI Rock Climbing Instructor Training -

Mountain training

RSA level 2 Rope access -

Rout Setting Association

WWSR White Water Safety Rescue -

British canoeing/Paddle uk

Paddle Sport Leader -

Paddle uk

British Canoeing Core Coach -

Paddle uk

Archery instructor -

Archery uk

Caving Instructor Training -

Rock Uk

Functional skills 3 English -

AQA

Level 2 Maths -

AQA

Outdoor First Aid Level 2 -

Lakes First Aid

Paediatric level 3 First Aid -

Qualsafe

Skills



- Teamwork and collaboration
- Communication and interpersonal skills
- Problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Attention to detail and following protocols
- Physical fitness and endurance
- Adaptability and flexibility

- Self-awareness

- Accountability

- Boundary-setting

- Self-care and self-awareness
- Leadership and taking initiative
- Safety management and risk assessment
- Teaching and training others
- Working at heights
- Working in high stress environments

Timeline

Managing Director

Belong Adventures

Lema Boat Centre

Lema Boat Centre

Working at heights lead safety

Warwick Sports Hub

Activity leader

Summit Centre

Instructor

Warwick Sports Hub

Iceland delivery driver

Iceland

RCI Rock Climbing Instructor Training -

Mountain training

RSA level 2 Rope access -

Rout Setting Association

WWSR White Water Safety Rescue -

British canoeing/Paddle uk

Paddle Sport Leader -

Paddle uk

British Canoeing Core Coach -

Paddle uk

Archery instructor -

Archery uk

Caving Instructor Training -

Rock Uk

Functional skills 3 English -

AQA

Level 2 Maths -

AQA

Outdoor First Aid Level 2 -

Lakes First Aid

Paediatric level 3 First Aid -

Qualsafe
Reece Ball