Swim School Teacher

Better; Lincoln; On-site; GBP 19,000 - 26,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Health assurance

Ride to Work scheme

Free eye tests

Discounted gym membership

Job summary

GLL is hiring Swimming Teachers at Yarborough Leisure Centre in Lincoln. This role focuses on delivering safe, structured swimming lessons to a range of ages, including group and one-to-one sessions, to help learners gain confidence in the water.

As a Swimming Teacher, you’ll follow the centre’s product guidelines, perform some administration, and have the opportunity for career progression. Flexible hours are available, with a Living Wage employer and uniform provided.

Qualifications

• STA Level 2 Swimming Teaching, Award or Certificate level or Swim England Level 2 qualified
• National Rescue Award for Swimming Teachers & Coaches (desirable)
• Knowledge of health, safety, and other relevant legislation
• Understanding of Child Protection Policy

Responsibilities

• Maintain a welcoming, professional poolside image and deliver lessons safely
• Teach swimming to individuals or groups, adapting to pupil needs
• Record and award relevant achievements in line with standards
• Assist with enrolments and follow the safeguarding and behaviour policies
• Meet product standards to ensure consistency across centres

Job description

GLL is currently looking for Swimming Teachers based at Yarborough Leisure Centre. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Swimming Teacher, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than just a Swimming Teacher job, it's a career.

Up to £16.33 per hour depending on qualifications.

As aSwimming Teacher, you will play a key role in developing our customers' swimming skills. This is your chance to deliver safe, consistent swimming lessons that give people real confidence in the water – and an invaluable life skill. As an experiencedSwimming Teacher, you’ll thrive on supporting people to achieve their potential, taking a pupil’s nature and needs into account.Swimming Teachersdraw on their knowledge of practices, progression, and teaching points and apply it in the most effective way. Naturally, there’ll be some administration involved, but rest assured that almost all of your time will be spent doing what you do best, teaching people to become stronger swimmers, whether in a group or one-to-one, and from children to adults.

What you’ll do:

• Maintain a good and positive image of the Centre to customers and the public generally by providing a welcoming, helpful, and professional poolside service.
• Comply with the commitments outlined in the ‘Customer Charter’, ensuring that standards are maintained as stipulated.
• Ensure the safety and control of the pupils within the swimming lesson and to ensure that all relevant regulations applicable to the centres operation are enforced and complied with.
• Actively encourage pupils to enrol on further courses and short courses.
• Assist with new-enrolments and re-enrolments as required by the General Manager.
• Understand and follow the Safeguarding Policy and Procedure & Behaviour policy contained within the Swim School product.
• Record and complete relevant awards in line with expected standards, ensuring that the levels are obtained.
• Teach to the standard set within the product manual to ensure a consistent approach throughout all the centres.

As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

What you need:

• STA Level 2 Swimming Teaching, Award or Certificate level or Swim England Level 2 qualified.
• Ideally have the National Rescue Award for Swimming Teachers & Coaches.
• Knowledge of health, safety, and other relevant legislation.
• Understanding of Child Protection Policy.

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!

The basics:

This is a Flexible position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service, flexible working may be possible, working from home is not possible in this role. We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay We can offer a career, not just a job with extensive Learning & development support available. A uniform will be supplied and must be worn GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in. As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business

Additionally GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:

• Access to a pension scheme.
• Health Assurance and access to Counselling services
• Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
• Free annual eye tests
• Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!

GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:

• The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you
• Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc
• Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people - ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet

About GLL:

As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us.To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer two different types of work arrangements:

• A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
• A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.