Location: Northfield Leisure Centre, Birmingham B27 7NS
Salary: Up to £14.25 per hour + excellent benefits
Working hours: Casual hours, 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
a Swimming Teachers to join their team and help make a positive difference every
day.
By following the tried and tested Swim England learn to swim framework we
develop the confidence in all of our swimmers through fun and enjoyable lessons.
Many of our swimmers have progressed to swim competitively and even to represent
our country.
Teaching our swimming lessons will see you delivering safe fun and progressive
lessons for our baby and pre-school customers, but this is also a mentality we
take towards our teachers' careers and personal development. We want you to feel
safe in your employment so we will contract you for as little or many teaching
hours as you want around your current commitments.
Paying for your own safeguarding and DBS checks aren’t fun or cheap so we
provide these for you! There’s also no need to hold your own personal insurance
as you will be covered by ours. Working for us will enable you to work within
all our leisure centres as well as giving you excellent personal and career
development through continued training and learning opportunities.
Our in-house Aquatic Training Academy will provide you with ongoing training
through our specialist CPDs in swimming teaching, meaning you can access a range
of training throughout your career, and when it comes to that career we have a
solid pathway in place meaning there is opportunity to progress into management
or other areas in the business.
What you’ll need to do the role
You’ll have excellent customer service skills and be someone who is happy to
deal with people of all ages and back grounds.
You will need to hold either a STA Award/Certificate in Teaching Swimming or
Swim England (Previously ASA) Level
2.
Holding either a valid RLSS UK NPLQ, RLSS UK NRASTC or STA Safety Award for
Teachers would be advantageous but not essential as we can provide the training
to complete these courses free of charge.
If you do not yet hold the relevant qualifications to teach swimming but you are
looking to start a career with us, please do not worry as we have multiple
qualified Swimming Teacher Tutors across our business and often run training
courses. Please submit your application and we will be in touch when we have a
course running near you.
Why Join us
A place you can make an impact: Swimming not only makes people healthier and
happier it also teaches a skill for life. As one of our teachers you will be at
the forefront of helping people develop those skills.
A place you can count on: Our swimming teachers are integral to the running of
our centres, so as well progressing into aquatics coordination you can move into
other centre management roles in one of our 55 facilities.
A place for you: Teaching can lead to a great sense of accomplishment as you
watch people progress and work with your local community. And as you are
supporting your students, we will be supporting you with ongoing training and
development.
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
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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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