Job Description

GLL is looking for a Regional Aquatics Manager to work across various locations, including Bedford, Enfield, North Kesteven, Barnet, Rugby, Hillingdon, East Cambridge, Cambridge, Welwyn and Hatfield. This Regional Aquatics Manager role will oversee all aquatic related work streams for multiple partnerships, reporting into the National Aquatics Manager.





As Regional Aquatics Manager, you will lead a team of Area Swim School Leads to manage the Hub Swim School business. The Regional Aquatics Manager will have overall responsibility for the swim school workforce, business and customer KPIs for your Hub. This is a varied Regional Aquatics Manager role, working in the office and in our Leisure Centres. This Regional Aquatics Manager role requires you to work in London at times and the role will involve UK wide travel. Regional Aquatics Managers track their areas' income, expenditure and sales in order to ensure our product is profitable and running to a high standard.

What you'll do.

Provide opportunities and access to enable more people to go swimming and enjoy being more active. Oversee Better Swim School in your region, which delivers swimming lessons every week to over 130,000 children across the UK. Manage the workforce development and aquatic strategy in line with Better Swim School Manage relationships effectively and have first rate team management skills. Provide management support to the Areas Swim School Leads, swimming teachers and centre teams ensuring ongoing reviews swim school and establish further ways to expand the programme. Complete various work stream reports, poolside observations of teachers and respond to emails which can be anything from a swimming teacher applicant to queries from Areas Swim School leads.

What do you need?

You must have a Level 2 Certificate in teaching swimming, A STA Tutor Qualification and / or Level 3 Award in Education and Training are desirable. Be able to understand the reality of teaching the sport and have the technical knowledge. An understanding and/or experience of working with the STA / Swim England would be beneficial.

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!

The basics:

This is a Full time permanent position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service, flexible working may be possible, working from home is not possible in this role. We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay. We can offer a career, not just a job with extensive Learning & development support available. GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in. As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business

Additionally GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:

Access to a pension scheme. Health Assurance and access to Counselling services Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme. Free annual eye tests Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!

GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:

The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people - ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet

About GLL:

As the UK's largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children's centres.





Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.





One of our core values is 'More than a Job', because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.





We offer two different types of work arrangements:


A permanent employment contract - part time and full time A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.





So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you'll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.





Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.





However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people's lives.





We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.





All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.