Swimming Teacher

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Plan and deliver swimming lessons to community members while ensuring safety standards and proper technique.

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Location: Stechford Leisure Centre, Birmingham, B33 8QN

Salary: £12.75 to £15.88 per hour + excellent benefits

Part Time: Various hours available, between Monday to Sunday

At Serco, we're pleased to be recruiting on behalf of Birmingham Community Leisure Trust.

Birmingham Community Leisure Trust encourages active, healthy lifestyles across the local community. Providing affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities in a safe, clean, friendly and welcoming space, their goal is to support healthier and happier lives for everyone. Delivering these services relies on an enthusiastic, customer-focused team, and they're now looking for Swimming Teachers to join their team and help make a positive difference every day.

You’ll be entrusted to:

Planning and delivering lessons to suit each swimmer in the class
Ensuring safe provision and correct use of all equipment
Establishing and making sure that safety standards are followed in every lesson
Identifying participants abilities and encouraging them to reach their full potential
Providing explanations and demonstrating swimming techniques
Correcting faults in Swimming techniques and identifying ways to improve performance

Does this sound like you?You’ll be a great fit for this role if you...

You will need to hold either a STA Award/Certificate in Teaching Swimming or Swim England (Previously ASA) Level 2
Strong swimmer
Holding either a valid RLSS UK NPLQ or RLSS UK NRASTC or STA Safety would be advantageous but not essential as we can provide the training to complete these courses free of charge.
Hold plenty of enthusiasm and a big smile
You’ll have excellent customer service skills and be someone who is happy to deal with people of all ages and back grounds.
Be willing to go the extra mile whilst on your rounds to enable your team to hit their targets.
Team player

What we offer 

Holidays: 21 days pro rata plus bank holidays
Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships (including L3 Team Leader and L5 Operations Manager apprenticeships), mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, free membership for Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme, donate your pennies from your monthly pay to the Serco People Fund Charity
Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging. They represent and empower all our colleagues including LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, veterans, and people from all cultural backgrounds.
For all Leisure benefits - Trust and Serco Leisure Employee Benefits

Serco Leisure is one of the UK's leading national operators of leisure centres, destination venues and elite sporting facilities, managing sites, services and recruitment on behalf of the Leisure Trust.

Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential, and champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).

Please note, for many of our roles, a DBS check will be required.

For support with your application, please contact recruitmentuk@serco.com.

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How we rate this

Swimming Teacher at Serco rates 0 out of 100 for how much of the daily work is AI. That makes it Little AI (AI Level 1 of 4). The level is about AI in the job, not seniority.

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Little AI. AI is not part of the work.

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