Swimming Teacher

Sporting House; Chester; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player in sport and leisure is seeking passionate Swimming Teachers to join their innovative team. This role involves teaching swimming to children aged 3-11, creating fun and engaging lessons while ensuring a safe environment. Candidates should possess excellent communication skills and a positive attitude towards swimming. Full training can be provided, making this a fantastic opportunity for those looking to make a difference in children's lives through swimming education. If you are flexible and eager to inspire the next generation of swimmers, this role is perfect for you!

Qualifications

• Enthusiastic attitude and good communication are essential.
• Flexibility to work evenings and weekends is required.

Responsibilities

• Plan and deliver engaging swimming lessons for children aged 3-11.
• Ensure safety standards are followed and equipment is used correctly.
• Evaluate sessions and provide feedback to swimmers.

Skills

Enthusiastic attitude towards swimming

Good communication skills

Ability to inspire confidence

Perseverance and patience

Ability to encourage and put people at ease

Desire to meet individual needs

Professional and well-organised

Flexibility to work evenings and weekends

Education

Swimming teaching qualification

Tools

Online portal for tracking progress

Job description

Our Olympians need you!

How would you like to work with swim! and swim@ - 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.

Your primary role will be to teach our quality swimming programme for 3-11 years to inspire children to swim through fun and innovative lessons, 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 swimmers' 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. Good communicator
3. The ability to inspire confidence and motivate swimmers
4. Perseverance and patience
5. The ability to encourage people and put them at ease
6. A desire to meet individual needs
7. Professional, punctual and well-organised person responsible for the implementation, development and organisation of swimming classes
8. Flexibility to work weekdays, evenings and weekends