Job Description
Job description
Are you passionate about delivering motivating and engaging swimming lessons for all ages and ability levels, and have a flexible approach to working hours?
Active Leicester operates swimming lessons at seven leisure centres within the city: Aylestone, Braunstone, Cossington Street, Evington, Leicester Leys, New Parks and Spence Street.
When employed as a Casual Swim Teacher, you’ll have the opportunity to work a variety of hours at any of our leisure centres on an adhoc basis to cover sickness and short-term absence. Hours of work may include daytime, evenings, and weekends. Casual shifts are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
What you'll be doing
You’ll work closely with the leisure centre teams to deliver swimming lessons to Active Leicester customers, ensuring you create a safe and welcoming environment.
You’ll teach a programme of instructed sessions, record weekly attendance and progression for each swimmer and comply with all training, safeguarding, health & safety and operational requirements. Using your expertise, you’ll provide feedback and direction to service users, promoting a quality experience for all.
What you’ll need
An appropriate Swimming Teaching qualification – STA award/certificate or Swim England (Previously ASA) Level 1/Level 2 qualification with previous experience of devising and delivering engaging swim classes for participants of varying abilities and from a variety backgrounds and cultures using a variety of swimming aids and equipment.
You’ll need excellent communication skills to deliver high levels of customer service to the swimmers and their parents/guardians, as well as good punctuality, time management and organisation skills to ensure each lesson runs smoothly, safely and progressively.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.
Are you passionate about delivering motivating and engaging swimming lessons for all ages and ability levels, and have a flexible approach to working hours?
Active Leicester operates swimming lessons at seven leisure centres within the city: Aylestone, Braunstone, Cossington Street, Evington, Leicester Leys, New Parks and Spence Street.
When employed as a Casual Swim Teacher, you’ll have the opportunity to work a variety of hours at any of our leisure centres on an adhoc basis to cover sickness and short-term absence. Hours of work may include daytime, evenings, and weekends. Casual shifts are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
What you'll be doing
You’ll work closely with the leisure centre teams to deliver swimming lessons to Active Leicester customers, ensuring you create a safe and welcoming environment.
You’ll teach a programme of instructed sessions, record weekly attendance and progression for each swimmer and comply with all training, safeguarding, health & safety and operational requirements. Using your expertise, you’ll provide feedback and direction to service users, promoting a quality experience for all.
What you’ll need
An appropriate Swimming Teaching qualification – STA award/certificate or Swim England (Previously ASA) Level 1/Level 2 qualification with previous experience of devising and delivering engaging swim classes for participants of varying abilities and from a variety backgrounds and cultures using a variety of swimming aids and equipment.
You’ll need excellent communication skills to deliver high levels of customer service to the swimmers and their parents/guardians, as well as good punctuality, time management and organisation skills to ensure each lesson runs smoothly, safely and progressively.
What we can offer you
As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.
Join us
We’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible.
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Requirement Snapshot: Candidates should possess basic communication skills, a proactive attitude, and the ability to work in a team. Experience in Teacher Jobs is a plus.
