We Are St Helens Borough Council
Located in the heart of the Northwest close to Liverpool, Manchester and Lancashire, St Helens is a transformational Council which is passionate and ambitious for the communities we support. We provide a wide range of local authority services to the residents, businesses, schools, and visitors to the borough. We can only do this because of our highly valued, highly skilled workforce.
Working together, our workplace vision and values guide our organisation, and the contribution of our workforce is key to our culture journey. Employees with us receive a wide range of benefits including well-being in work, financial benefits, ways of working and learning and development support.
Making A Difference as A Swimming Instructor in Leisure, Place Services Directorate
Based at Queens Park Health & Fitness Monday to Saturday
Do you have fabulous Swimming Instructor and customer care skills? Think you would enjoy working in a Leisure Centre environment and could become a great asset to our Aquatic Team? If so, then dive into applying for this role with passion, motivation, and join us in delivering outstanding learn to swim customer service.
Go Active is looking for a suitably qualified and experienced Swimming Instructor with excellent aquatic skills to support in the delivery of our learn to swim programme. The role will be based at Queens Park Health and Fitness.
Ideally, we are looking for an individual with first-hand experience of working in the Leisure industry, enjoys working as part of a team and has excellent communication skills with a good understanding of aquatic service delivery.
Day to day duties include, teaching swimming to children, recording progression and recording attendance. Each of the tasks requires a high level of interaction and communication so it is imperative you are confident to work and deliver pool side based tuition.
You will be required to work 22 hours per week, but we would welcome a commitment to working flexibly in order to meet the overall needs of our aquatic service by providing cover for colleagues and attend training.
If successful, you will be eligible for the following benefits:
• Paid training opportunities to expand your skills, qualifications, and experience.
• Paid annual leave entitlement.
• Access to the full Go Active facilities, including our gyms, group exercise classes and of course, swimming.
• Enhanced rates for weekend work (time and a half) if you have worked within the same role, within the same week
If you have the appropriate skills and experience to add value to our service, then we would like to hear from you.
Interested to Find Out More?
You can review our full job description details, and person specification information here.
You are also welcome to contact us for a chat before applying by emailing us at jimflatley@sthlens.gov.uk or For an informal discussion please contact Jim Flately on 01744 671717
This post is subject to Enhanced DBS Disclosure
Please note we reserve the right to close the advert early should we receive a sufficient number of applications and encourage you to apply early, to avoid disappointment.
Equality & Diversity
St Helens Borough Council respects and values the individuality that every employee brings. We encourage applicants from diverse backgrounds, who share our values, our commitment to inclusion, and who will help us on our journey to transform our organisation. Further information about Equality & Diversity at St Helens Borough Council can be found here https://www.sthelens.gov.uk/equality
St Helens Borough Council is a Disability Confident Employer. Disability Confident Employers lead the way in helping to take action that changes attitudes, behaviours, and cultures for the better.
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All Council employees are required to abide by the ethical standards embodied by the 7 Nolan Principles: Selflessness, Integrity, Objectivity, Accountability, Openness, Honesty, and Leadership.
