Job Description

Job title: Casual Swim Teacher

Hours: 0

Location: Waterlooville

Looking for a workplace that ignites your passion, values respect, encourages innovation, and embraces being dynamic? Look no further! This role offers you the opportunity to join a team that believes in empowering its colleagues to unlock their full potential with Horizon.

Who We Are

At Horizon Leisure Centres, we are passionate about health and wellbeing and are committed to making an outstanding positive impact on our customers and within our local community. Wherever you work in our business, you will have the opportunity to bring new ideas to continuously improve our service and deliver an exceptional experience to our customers.

Our Vision:

To empower communities to lead happier healthier lives

Our Purpose:

To provide fully inclusive access at affordable prices to sport and leisure facilities and to help improve the health and wellbeing of the local community.

Our Values

• Passion ● Respect ● Innovation ● Dynamic ● Empowering

Your Role

To deliver a varied programme of swimming lessons within the class framework ensuring customers obtain the maximum benefit in a reasonable timescale, in a safe, fun and stimulating environment.

To promote and support the Swim School to ensure continued attendance of lessons throughout the year.

Your Team

You’ll be working within our Swim Team working with the Swim Coordinator and Aquatic Development Manager.

Your Responsibilities

• Follow the Swim England Syllabus, maximizing the time and space available whilst ensuring the individual and group needs are met every session.
• Prepare appropriate lesson plans in line with Swim England syllabus to provide high quality lessons as per Swim England guidelines.
• Ensure the smooth movement of swimmers within the programme through continuous assessment.
• Ensure the checking (reporting any defects), set up and put away of equipment securely and tidily before, during and after a session.
• Supervise the arrival, departure and handover of the lesson promptly and register all attendances.
• Monitor class sizes and unexpected arrivals and alert the Swim Coordinator/Manager at the earliest opportunity of any problems/queries.
• Complete regular Progress Reports using the electronic tablets on each individual swimmer ensuring they are detailed, positive and constructive.
• Ensure effective communication is used at all times and relevant for all swimmers with regular individual feedback.
• Deal politely with customer comments and complaints, to ensure excellent customer service, escalating when necessary.
• Ensure customers are updated with any promotional materials and information.
• Attend regular internal training sessions and teacher meetings.
• Ensure own qualifications are current and maintained – attend regular continual professional development meetings.
• Identify own training needs with the assistance of the Team Manager.
• Ensure you keep up to date with current good practice and policies and information available to you from the Swim School Management.
• Ensure a thorough handover is provided to any teachers covering classes in your absence.
• Ensure a comprehensive understanding of NOP and EAP and take action as necessary.
• Be responsible for minimising the environmental / health and safety risks in the workplace and for reporting potential risks, accidents and near misses to relevant managers.

Your Experience

• Experience of teaching within a Learn to Swim Programme.
• Experience of delivering high levels of customer service.

Your Qualifications

• Qualified swimming teacher (ASA or STA) to Level 2
• NPLQ or Teachers Pool Rescue/Pool Safety Qualified
• Current Child Protection CPD or equivalent
• Level 2 Parent and Baby qualified (desirable, not essential)

Your Competencies & Skills

• Excellent Communication skills for all ages and abilities.
• Energetic and passionate to meet all swimmers needs and goals.
• Able to understand and adapt to the differing needs of individual swimmers.
• Positive and focused attitude to achieving own goals.
• Motivated and approachable.
• Open to new ideas and working practices and ability to embrace change.
• Dynamic team player.

This role will be based at Waterlooville but will be expected to travel to other company site as the need requires.

Interview Process:

The recruiting manager will review your CV and if shortlisted, you will be invited to a formal interview/assessment process where we will evaluate your suitability for the role.

The successful candidate will be subject to an Enhanced DBS check.

There may be times when due to the volume of applicants to need to close a vacancy early to avoid disappointment, be sure to get your application in as soon as possible!

If you are a recruitment agency, please note we operate a PSL and do not take cold calls.