Job Description

About The Role

Role

: Swimming Teacher (Level 2)

Location

: Chorley Leisure

Contract

: Part time (up to 20.75 hours per week) / Permanent

Salary

: 17.21 per hour (35,899 per year (FTE))

Closing Date

: 11 July 2025


We are looking for an enthusiastic Swimming Teacher to expand our programme at All Seasons Leisure Centre. If you are passionate about swimming and have experience teaching children and providing structured sessions in a comfortable and supportive environment, then this is the opportunity for you to join our team.



You will possess a Swim England (SE) Level 2 Teaching Swimming and an RLSS NPLQ qualification or be willing to work towards gaining the qualification.

What you'll be getting up to

As an ambassador for Chorley Leisure Ltd, you'll plan and deliver lessons to help build water confidence, develop strokes and aquatic skills for all members of the programme, whilst ensuring a safe environment is maintained. You will be continually assessing all swimmers in line with the Swim England pathway and criteria, supporting swimmers achieve their potential. Our programme consists of group lessons, but there is the opportunity for you to teach 1-2-1 swimming lessons too.

Who we're looking for

You'll be a confident swimming teacher with previous experience and technical knowledge who is able to deliver relevant practices, teaching points and appropriate adaptations. You'll have excellent verbal communications skills which will enable you to provide relevant individual feedback and praise for effort and achievement, alongside the ability to display accurate demonstrations.

Additional requirements

This role requires a DBS Check (applied and paid for by the Council)

Our Benefits

31 days annual leave Local Government pension Healthcare Cash Plan for cash back on health treatments Cashback website access for savings on brands you love Free access to the leisure centres Free parking

About Us

Chorley Council is dedicated to providing first-class services and promoting the well-being of the local community. Our staff are our greatest resource, at the heart of everything we do, and are crucial to the delivery of excellent services for our residents. At Chorley Council, we're always striving to make our borough the best to live, work and visit.

Additional information

Applicants are advised to apply early. We reserve the right to close a vacancy prior to the closing date.




The FTE salary includes a 4,823 market supplement.

Equal Opportunities

We believe that everyone has the right to be treated with dignity and respect. We are committed to the elimination of unfair and unlawful discrimination and prejudice in all our policies, procedures, and practices.



We're committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and accessible to everyone. This includes making adjustments for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the recruitment process, please contact us via the "Contact Us" page on our website.



If you are disabled or your last employer was the armed forces, and you meet all the essential criteria of a post, you will be guaranteed an interview.