Lead Swimming Teacher

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Lead Swimming to join our Leisure team at Enable!

About Us 

Enable is a charity dedicated to improving people's wellbeing and strengthening local communities. We work with councils, charities and other local organisations to deliver health, leisure, community services and events that enrich people’s lives and strengthen our local community.  

At Enable, we value our employees and our culture, focusing on embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive, flexible and fun environment for employees to perform at their best.  

Reports to: Active Communities Programme Lead and Active Communities Manager

Based: Burntwood Swimming Pool (Burntwood School)

Salary: £26.25 per hour  

Contract: Casual 
Work Arrangement: Tuesday and Thursday from 17:30 – 21:15 per week (evenings) during school term time only

DBS: Enhanced

Role Overview: 

Responsible to the Active Communities Team for delivering swimming lessons, following Swim England guidelines and updating registers and swimming levels on Soakly teaching App/Desktop. The lessons are for 5-15-year-olds of varying abilities and women aged 16+ based at Burntwood School in Wandsworth. To work with other swimming staff and Lifeguards to set up, take down and maintain Enable Leisure and Sport’s equipment and deliver an enjoyable swimming experience for the participants.  

The Community Swim programme is an affordable, locally available way for children aged between 5-15 and Women 16+, to learn and develop their swimming skills. The aim of the programme is to help participants learn and improve their swimming skills for an affordable price in an inclusive space. Once finished with all levels, participants will be advised to move onto local swimming clubs or competitive swimming. The programme runs at Burntwood School on a Tuesday & Thursday evenings between 5:30pm - 7:30pm for children and 7:45pm – 21:15pm for women only swim, term time only. For more information on the Community Swim Programme and its aims, please visit our websites below:  

• https://enablelc.org/leisure/leisureget-involved/women/ 
• https://enablelc.org/csp 

The Leisure Team are passionate about benefitting the local community through sports and leisure activities. We are experts in our service and pride ourselves on our customer experience and inclusivity through affordable or complementary programmes reaching those that need it the most. The leisure team want to enrich all lives within Wandsworth leading on the needs of the community, delivering programmes that reach out to local places and people, removing barriers and increasing access to activity.  

Main Duties/Responsibilities 

• To ensure the safety of children and women in the pool and on pool side.  
• To independently plan, prepare, deliver and evaluate a series of swimming lessons whilst following Swim England guidelines on the Soakly teaching App. 
• Work with a swimming assistant during swimming sessions taking turns teaching on poolside and in the pool to assist lower-level swimmers.  
• Provide regular communications to the responsible Active Communities team member with details of the sessions, highlighting any challenges and successes.  
• To be able to maintain registers and update skill progression for each participant weekly on Soakly Teachers app. 
• To maintain GDPR standards ensuring no particpant data is left out and is stored securely. 
• Adhere to the Enable Leisure and Culture’s human resources policies.  
• Commit to evening work in term time.  
• Comply with Health & Safety legislation to ensure safe working practices of all staff, public and contractors in the working environment, in accordance with Enable Leisure & Culture and the venue’s safety arrangements, policies and codes. 
• Be committed to professional development by identifying any training that will assist the role.  
• To understand the duties and responsibilities arising from the Children’s Act 2004 in relation to safeguarding children and young people. To ensure the appropriate member of staff is made aware and kept fully informed of any concerns which you may have in relation to safeguarding and/or child protection. 

The successful candidate will have:

• Hold a SEQ Level 1 and Level 2 Swimming Teaching qualification.  
• Have a sound knowledge of the Swim England curriculum. 
• A knowledge and understanding of safeguarding vulnerable adults and young people and its relevance to the role of swimming Teacher/Coach, demonstrating integrity always and a willingness to attend training as required. 
• Experience of supervising swimming lessons in a leisure or competitive setting.  
• Experience of casual/freelance coaching/instructing is desirable.  
• Experience of working collaboratively, in a team setting.  
• Experience working with young children (Desirable)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to converse with key people (including colleagues, children, young people, other organisations and the public).  
• Be able to manage behaviour of participants to ensure sessions are enjoyable and inclusive. 
• Ability to contribute to the development of training programmes and sessions for groups.  
• Excellent organisation skills to keep up with admin related tasks such as Soakly registers and swimmer levels. 

This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of a company that positively impacts the community around them! If you are someone that is motivated by a desire to enrich the lives of others and make a genuine difference, then please Apply Now and follow the prompts. 

If this role not quite right, however you are still interested in working at Enable then we encourage you to get in touch today on [email protected] 

Enable is strongly committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace and is an equal opportunities employer. We value diversity and encourage applications from candidates from all backgrounds. We believe that the more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. To find out more on our approach to Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, please visit our website.