Swimming Teacher

Location: Fox Hollies Leisure Centre, Birmingham B27 7NS

Job Type: Casual part time hours with the opportunity to become permanent.

Working Hours: 10 Hours per week covering a mixture of shifts including weekends.

Salary: Up to £15.00 per hour + Excellent benefits

Are you passionate about swimming?

Here at Birmingham Leisure Trust, our goal is to encourage active, healthy lifestyles in an environment that is safe, warm, clean, friendly, and fun. To deliver those services takes an enthusiastic and customer-focused team - and right now we are looking to recruit for a Swimming Instructor to join our team.

By following the tried and tested Swim England learn to swim framework, we develop the confidence in all of our swimmers through fun and enjoyable lessons. Many of our swimmers have progressed to swim competitively and even to represent our country.

Teaching our children swimming lessons will see you delivering safe, fun, and progressive lessons. We want you to feel safe in your employment, so we will contract you for as little or as many teaching hours as you want around your current commitments.

We provide your safeguarding and DBS checks, so you don’t have to pay for these yourself. There's also no need to hold your own personal insurance as you will be covered by ours. Working for us will enable you to work within all our leisure centres as well as giving you excellent personal and career development through continued training and learning opportunities.

Our in-house Aquatic Training Academy will provide you with ongoing training through our specialist CPDs in swimming teaching, meaning you can access a range of training throughout your career. We have a solid pathway in place meaning there is opportunity to progress into management or other areas in the business.

We share your passion for leisure and want you to embrace all the excellent services we provide to our customers, which is why all of our teachers are given a free membership as well as one for a friend or family member.

What you'll need to do the role:

You'll have excellent customer service skills and be someone who is happy to deal with people of all ages and backgrounds.

You will need to hold either a STA Award/Certificate in Teaching Swimming or Swim England (Previously ASA) Level 2.

Holding either a valid RLSS UK NPLQ, RLSS UK NRASTC, or STA Safety Award for Teachers would be an advantage, although we do offer these courses for anyone who doesn't hold this.

This role will require a DBS check.

What we offer:

• Free membership at the Centre, plus heavily discounted use of classes and facilities.
• Free safeguarding training and DBS checks
• Excellent Development and Training Opportunities with our in-house Aquatic Training Academy
• 6% employer matched pension contribution
• Life assurance up to 2x base salary
• For all Leisure benefits please see Employee Benefits (moreleisure.com)

Why Serco:

Meaningful and vital work: Swimming not only makes people healthier and happier, it also teaches a skill for life. As one of our teachers, you will be at the forefront of helping people develop those skills.

A world of opportunity: Our swimming teachers are integral to the running of our centres, so as well as progressing into aquatics coordination, you can move into other centre management roles in one of our 55 facilities.

Great people: Teaching can lead to a great sense of accomplishment as you watch people progress and work with your local community. And as you are supporting your students, we will be supporting you with ongoing training and development.