Casual HoursAre you passionate about delivering motivating and engaging swimming lessons for all ages and ability levels?Active Leicester run swim lessons across all our leisure centres in the city. This is an exciting opportunity to help grow and develop our programme and provide a positive and enjoyable learning experience for all participants. Join us and you’ll become a valued member of our highly motivated and dynamic team play a key role in expanding the offering at Active Leicester and help deliver our vision.With the benefit of being a casual worker, you’ll have the opportunity to work as many shifts as you would like but will be dependent on the programme of lessons that are scheduled. Hours of work may include daytime, evenings, and weekends. You’ll be based at one of the leisure centres but have the flexibility to work across the various sites. We deliver both Learn to Swim and School Swim sessions.What you'll be doingYou’ll work closely with the leisure centre teams to deliver swimming lessons to Active Leicester customers, ensuring you create a safe and welcoming environment for physical activity. You’ll develop and supervise a programme of instruction sessions, assess the level of prospective members, and maintain accurate records of progress and attainment of participants on the portal. Using your expertise, you’ll provide feedback and information to service users.What you’ll needYou’ll have an appropriate Swimming Teaching ASA Level 2 qualification. With previous experience of working with swimming aids and equipment, you’ll have good understanding of devising and delivering engaging swim classes for participants of varying abilities and from a variety backgrounds and cultures. Using excellent communication skills, you’ll deliver high levels of customer service and be able to appropriately deal with irate or distressed customers. You’ll be able to motivate and encourage members of all ages to ensure everyone feels confident within your sessions.What we can offer youAs well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You’ll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. We’ll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our benefits calculator.Join usWe’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at the ‘our approach to recruitment’ page.For an informal discussion about this post, please contact Jennifer Hudspith on 01164544100 or email Jennifer.Hudspith@leicester.gov.ukThis is an open advert therefore we will complete the short-listing soon after receiving your application. If short-listed, you'll be called for an interview thereafter.
