Our experienced team of Safety Training Awards (STA) tutors offer a range of exciting and engaging qualifications leading to employment and a career path to suit you. An STA qualification in the leisure industry will enable you to work within leisure centres and for operators and swim schools all around the world.

Becoming a swimming teacher is a fantastic career path for those who are looking for a rewarding, active and challenging role. With flexible teaching hours to fit around your lifestyle, you’ll enjoy the satisfaction of a work-life balance whilst teaching a vital and important life skill. Swimming Teachers are very much in demand and opportunities for employment are available with private swim schools and public leisure centres - including with us!

Swimming is not only a skill for life; it can provide a fulfilling and enjoyable job as you work with people of all ages to help them develop those skills. This is your chance to train potential athletes, ensure children remain safe and aware of the risks around water whilst building confidence in all service users. Ultimately, you’ll ensure your learners continue to progress, providing them with confidence in the water - and you with an enormous sense of achievement and pride.

STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming

The STA Award in Teaching Swimming is the perfect step to begin your exciting career as a swimming teacher and with no previous experience required, you can get started right away.

The STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming will qualify you to teach non-swimmers through to, and including, improvers both adult and children. This OFQUAL regulated qualification, which is endorsed by CIMSPA to meet the professional standard in swimming teaching, will teach you the theory, as well as practical, to become a qualified swimming teacher.

The pre-requisites for this course are:

  • Be at least 16-years old
  • Hold current membership of STA (we can show you how to apply for this)

Please note, there is no Level 1 course for STA, so don’t worry if you are wondering if you need to complete this! The Level refers to where the course sits on the education framework, not the order in which the courses are taken.

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STA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming

Progress on your teaching pathway with the STA Certificate in Teaching Swimming—the next step which meets CIMSPA’s employer-led swimming teacher professional standard.

The STA Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming will qualify learners to teach advanced swimmers.

The qualification will expand expertise from the STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming, so you can teach competitive strokes, survival and rescue skills, diving and competitive starts and turns; allowing the Swimming Teacher to teach non-swimmers through to advanced participants.

The pre-requisites for this course are:

  • Be at least 16 years old
  • Hold an STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming
  • Hold current membership of STA (we can show you how to apply for this)

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STA Level 2 Award in Aquatic Teaching – Baby & Pre-School

If you would like to be a part of a baby’s first steps into water and help make their experience the best they can possibly have, then teaching babies and young children may be for you!

The STA Level 2 Baby and Pre-School will qualify you to teach baby, toddlers and pre-schoolers in an adult and child setting. This course is a stand-alone qualification and you do not need a swimming teacher’s qualification to attend. This regulated qualification will teach you the theory, as well as practical, to become a qualified BPS swimming teacher.

The pre-requisites for this course are:

  • Be at least 18 years old
  • Hold current membership of STA (we can show you how to apply for this)​
  • Hold a valid STA Safeguarding Certificate (not DBS) OR your STA Level 2 Award in Swimming Teaching, as safeguarding is a CPD within in this.

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STA Level 2 Award in Aquatic Teaching – Disability Swimming

Swimming has amazing benefits for everyone, and even more so for those with disabilities. If you want to help people with disabilities experience swimming in a safe, supportive, inclusive, and fun environment, then is the course for you.

Swimming teaching is a rewarding vocation for people of all ages, teaching valuable life skills for in and around water, some participants in lessons may have physical or hidden disabilities which can make mainstream lessons less effective. The People with Disabilities qualification covers a range of disabilities equipping a leaner with the knowledge and skills to deliver these lessons.

The pre-requisites for this course are:

  • Be at least 16 years of age or older
  • Hold current membership of STA (we can show you how to apply for this)
  • Hold the STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming or acceptable equivalent (Please note a Level 1 Award in Aquatic Teaching / Assistant qualification is not acceptable)

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