In reply to SamR:
Hi Sam, in Spain, it is called "Tecnico Deportivo (TD) de Montaña y Escalada" (it is something like Sports Technician on Mountain and Climbing). There is a first level (TD1) that is common, but it has limited professional competencies. Then there are three routes in a second level (TD2): "Tecnico Deportivo de Media Montaña"(it's equivalent to Mountain Leader, and depending on where you do it, International Mountain Leader, with the UIMLA certificate. But you can't programme an activity that requires a rope, axes, crampons...), "Tecnico Deportivo de Escalada" (something like "Climbing ML", that I guess is like the climbing scheme here in the UK), and Barrancos (something like "Ravines ML"?, descending through gorges and so on, with ropes, jumps on pools...).
It would be the third level (TD3) for Climbing and another for Mountain Guide ("Alta Montaña"), although it is more complicated and requires experience (similar to the Mountain Guide here in UK).
They are organized as formal education (actually it is under the kind of student people can choose after high school when don't want to go to the Uni, I guess it should be a similar scheme in UK) and require more time assisting to lessons than here. Depending on the place, it can be concentrate in a couple of months, or distributed along the year on sessions of two, three, four days. There are three parts on each level: one is a theory, other is more practical, with teaching on the hills, and another implies an internship in an outdoor company or with an official mountain guide. Some of the places where it is taught can give you automatically the international accreditations (UIMLA if to do the ML second level and IFMGA (UIAGM in Spanish) after the third level
If you are interested and want more info, let me know