Baby & Toddler Swim Instructor — Safe, Nurturing Lessons

Hamilton Aquatics is looking for a passionate and nurturing Baby Swimming Teacher to deliver high‑quality swimming lessons for babies and toddlers. This role focuses on creating a safe, engaging, and supportive environment that promotes early water confidence, development, and positive parent–child interaction, while maintaining strong operational and safety standards.

Key Objectives

• Plan and deliver safe, engaging, and age‑appropriate Little Swimmers lessons in line with the Hamilton Aquatics scheme of work, assessment criteria, and quality standards.
• Create a welcoming, calm, and secure poolside environment, ensuring equipment, facilities, and teaching areas are clean, safe, and suitable for babies and parents.
• Support water confidence, early movement skills, sensory development, and positive parent–child interaction, providing clear guidance and reassurance to parents during lessons.
• Maintain accurate administrative records, including attendance, progress tracking, bookings, and swimmer information, using Hamilton Bay systems.
• Communicate professionally and effectively with parents, carers, colleagues, and site stakeholders to build trust, engagement, and long‑term retention.
• Uphold high standards of health, safety, safeguarding, and child protection, responding appropriately to incidents and escalating concerns as required.
• Contribute to programme promotion, quality assurance, team development, and positive relationships with host sites and partners.

Set of Required Skills, Knowledge and Behaviours

Desired Qualifications

• Swim England Level 1 and 2 teaching aquatics
• Swim England Level 2 teaching swimming for babies and toddlers

Desired Experience

• Minimum of 2 years teaching experience delivering lessons to a range of abilities
• Proven experience in a related field with administration and KPI responsibilities

Job‑Specific Knowledge & Skills

• High level IT skills including using a CRM system
• Customer service and relationship management skills
• Maintaining confidentiality
• Confidence and ability to develop relationships
• Problem solving and conflict resolution
• Excellent time management skills
• Effective communication skills

What We Offer

• A competitive salary package
• Annual flight allowance
• Private medical insurance
• End of service benefit
• Access to lifestyle discounts