Swimming Teacher - Weekends

TN United Kingdom; Tring; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000

Job description

How would you like to work with Total Swimming Group - one of Britain's most successful sport and leisure businesses?

We are looking for engaging and inspiring individuals to work as Swimming Teachers to join our industry leading swimming teaching team, delivered at centres across the UK.

swim@ is on a mission to revolutionise swimming, and change lives. They believe every child should have the opportunity to learn-to-swim and love to swim!

Operating in school and university venues, we deliver a best in class learn to swim experience in the local community for 3-11 year olds. By delivering lessons from the school pool we are able to teach high-quality lessons to more children and give back to the local community. We invest in the local school pool and in many instances help prevent the closure of more pools across the country.

There's room for you to join our community of teachers, managers, and skilled leisure personnel. From providing a safe and fun place for children to swim, to smarter ways of delivering our programs, to improving children's health around the UK is our passion. Is it yours too? You can stretch across our UK network to learn from others, offer support, and gain new experiences along the way.

Your primary role will be to teach our quality swimming programme for 3-11 years to inspire children to swim through fun and innovative methods, delivering excellent standards of customer experience for swimmers and parents and changing lives through giving every child the opportunity to learn to swim.

As part of your teaching role, you will not only deliver fun and inspiring lessons, but also use technology to track swimmers' progress, work as part of a team to deliver a premium experience. This will include customer engagement, attending training and team meetings to share best practices and learn from each other.

This role is for weekday evenings and weekend hours, self-employed contract with guaranteed hours.

If you share our passion for changing lives through learning to swim and want to make a difference both in and out of the water, then this is a rare opportunity to join a progressive and industry leading company.

Full training and qualification can be provided; we recruit on character and personality – so change your life and get in touch today!

Main Duties:

1. To plan and deliver swimming lessons ensuring adherence to the scheme of work and lesson plans
2. Integration of the programme reward schemes into classes
3. Ensure safe provision of all equipment and ensure it is used correctly
4. Make sure safety standards are followed in sessions and undertake dynamic risk assessments
5. Identify swimmers' abilities and encourage them to reach their full potential
6. Provide explanations and demonstrate modern and accurate swimming techniques
7. Develop swimmer’s techniques and identify ways to improve performance
8. Create a positive and fun environment in which to motivate and encourage swimmers
9. Evaluate sessions and give feedback
10. Regularly assess each swimmer’s ability and progress and arrange for the award of the appropriate certificates using our online portal

Skills:

1. Enthusiastic and positive attitude towards swimming
2. The ability to inspire confidence and motivate swimmers
3. Perseverance and patience
4. The ability to encourage people and put them at ease
5. A desire to meet individual needs
6. Professional, punctual and well-organised person responsible for the implementation, development and organisation of swimming classes
7. Flexibility to work weekdays, evenings and weekends