# Swimming Instructor

**Company**: London Borough of Tower Hamlets
**Location**: London Borough of Tower Hamlets, Greater London
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Salary**: GBP 20.25 per hour
**Category**: Sports Coaching

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## Description

We are recruiting for a Swimming Instructor to join Tower Hamlets Leisure Services.

If you are passionate about helping children and adults develop essential swimming and water safety skills, committed to delivering high-quality lessons, and hold a Swim England Level 2 Teaching Swimming Qualification or STA Level 2 certificate in Teaching Swimming, we would love to hear from you.

In this role, you will:

- Deliver safe, engaging, and high-quality swimming lessons to participants of all ages and abilities including parent and baby classes

- Assess swimmers' progress and maintain accurate records in line with the Swim England Learn to Swim framework.

- Ensure the safety and wellbeing of all participants by adhering to safeguarding, health and safety, and pool operating procedures.

- Work collaboratively with colleagues, parents, carers, and partner organisations to promote swimming participation and progression within the community.

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

- Swim England Level 2 Teaching Swimming Qualification or STA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming (essential).

- Experience of planning and delivering swimming lessons for children, young people and adults in a structured aquatic environment.

- Knowledge of swimming teaching standards, water safety, safeguarding requirements, and health and safety legislation relevant to swimming pools.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to motivate learners and build positive relationships with participants, parents, and colleagues.

- The ability to work flexibly, including evenings and weekends where required.

Desirable qualifications and experience:

- Swim England Parent and Child Qualification or STA Parent and Baby Swimming Qualification.

- Experience teaching parent and baby, preschool, adult, or disability swimming lessons.

- Experience working within a local authority leisure setting.

Our benefits:

- Competitive salary £20.25 plus 12% holiday pay.

- Local Government Pension Scheme membership.

- Generous annual leave: 29 days, rising to 33 with 5+ years' service, plus bank holidays and 3 additional days at Christmas.

- Flexible and agile working to support work–life balance.

- Staff money-saving schemes (e.g. rent deposit loans, season ticket loans).

- Learning and development opportunities through our Learning Academy, with clear career development and leadership pathways.

## Skills

### Required
- Swim England Level 2 Teaching Swimming Qualification
- STA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming
- swimming teaching standards
- water safety
- safeguarding requirements
- health and safety legislation

### Nice to have
- Swim England Parent and Child Qualification
- STA Parent and Baby Swimming Qualification

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