Birmingham Community Leisure Trust
Swimming Teacher | Stechford
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Location: Stechford Leisure Centre, Birmingham, B33 8QN
Salary: Up to £15.88 per hour + excellent benefits
Part Time: 15 hours per week to cover a mixture of shifts
At Serco, we're pleased to be recruiting on behalf of Birmingham Community Leisure Trust.
About the 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.
Your Responsibilities
- 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
Ideal Candidate
- 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
- Excellent customer service skills and be someone who is happy to deal with people of all ages and backgrounds.
- Be willing to go the extra mile whilst on your rounds to enable your team to hit their targets.
- Team player
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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.
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About Serco Leisure
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).
Note: For many of our roles, a DBS check will be required. For confidential enquiries about this role, please contact MyHR via the portal.
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