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.
2024 Courses
January
- Erdington Leisure Centre
B24 9HU
22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th, 28th - 10am-7pm - Maidstone Leisure Centre
M15 7RN
24th, 25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, 29th - 10am-7pm
February
- AquaSplash
JE2 4HE
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th- 10am-7pm
10th - 9am-3pm - Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
3rd, 4th, 17th, 18th, 24th, 25th - 9am-6pm - Beeches Pool & Fitness Centre
B42 2HQ
10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th - 10am-7pm - Bangor Aurora Aquatics & Leisure Complex
BT20 4TH
26th, 28th - 10am - 7pm
March
- Bangor Aurora Aquatics & Leisure Centre
BT20 4TH
4th, 6th, 11th - 10am-7pm - Oswestry Leisure Centre
SY11 4QB
9th, 10th, 16th, 17th, 23rd and 24th - 9am-5pm - Rebecca Adlington Leisure Centre
NG19 7BZ
11th, 12th, 13th, 14th, 15th - 10am-7pm
16th - 9am-5pm - Fox Hollies Leisure Centre
B27 7NS
18th, 19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd - 10am-7pm
23rd - 9am-5pm - Swallows Leisure Centre
ME10 4NT
20th, 21st, 22nd, 25th - 10am-7pm
23rd, 24th - 9am-5pm
April
- Basingstoke Aquadrome
RG22 6PG
10th, 11th, 12th, 15th - 10am-7pm
13th, 14th - 9am-5pm
May
- Sir Jason Kenny Centre
BL3 5BN
13th. 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th - 10am-7pm
18th - 9am-5pm - Erdington Leisure Centre
B24 9HU
20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th - 10am-7pm
25th - 9am-5pm - The Quarry Fitness & Swimming Centre
SY1 1RU
28th, 29th, 30th, 31st - 10am-7pm
June
- The Quarry Fitness & Swimming Centre
SY1 1RU
1st, 2nd - 9am-5pm - Basingstoke Aquadrome
RG22 6PG
5th, 6th, 7th - 9am-5pm - Ladywood Leisure Centre
B16 8TR
9th - 9am - 5pm
10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 14th - 10am-7pm - Water Meadows Leisure Complex
NG18 1BA
19th, 20th, 21st, 24th - 10am-7pm
22nd, 23rd - 9am-5pm
July
- Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
24th, 25th, 26th, 29th - 10am-7pm
27th, 28th - 9am-5pm
August
- Bangor Aurora Aquatics & Leisure Centre
BT20 4TH
12th, 13th, 14th, 15th - 10am-7pm
10th, 11th - 9am-5pm - Tadley Health & Fitness Centre
RG26 3LA
19th, 20th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd - 10am-7pm
24th - 9am-5pm
October
- AquaSplash
JE2 4HE
6th - 9am-5pm
7th, 8th, 9th, 10th, 11th - 10am-7pm - Swallows Leisure Centre
ME10 4NT
15th, 16th, 17th, 18th - 10am-7pm
19th, 20th - 9am-5pm - Northfield Leisure Centre
B31 2PD
19th, 20th - 9am-5pm
21st, 22nd, 23rd, 24th - 10am-7pm - Rebecca Adlington Leisure Centre
NG19 7BZ
25th, 28th, 29th, 30th - 10am-7pm
26th, 27th - 9am-5pm - Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
28th, 29th, 30th, 31st - 10am-7pm
November:
- Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
1st, 2nd - 9am-5pm
- Oswestry Leisure Centre
SY11 4QB
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th - 10am-7pm
9th - 9am-5pm - Basingstoke Aquadrome
RG22 6PG
23rd, 24th, 30th - 9am-5pm - Stechford Leisure Centre
B33 8QN
28th, 29th - 10am - 7pm
30th - 9am - 5pm
December
- Basingstoke Aquadrome
RG22 6PG
1st, 7th, 8th - 9am-5pm - Stechford Leisure Centre
B33 8QN
1st - 9am-5pm
2nd, 3rd - 10am-7pm - Horwich Leisure Centre
BL6 5PY
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th - 10am-7pm
7th - 9am-5pm
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)
2024 Courses
February
- Oswestry Leisure Centre
SY11 4QB
12th, 13th, 14th, 15th - 10am - 7pm - Basingstoke Aquadrome
RG22 6PG
13th, 14th, 15th, 16th - 10am-7pm - Horwich Leisure Centre
BL6 5PY
21st, 22nd, 23rd - 10am-7pm
24th - 9am-4pm
March
- Stechford Leisure Centre
B33 8QN
4th, 5th, 6th, 7th - 10am-7pm
April
- Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
3rd, 4th, 5th - 10am-7pm
6th - 9am-5pm
May
- Rebecca Adlington Leisure Centre
NG19 7BZ
8th, 9th, 10th - 10am-7pm
11th - 9am-5pm - Maidstone Leisure Centre
M15 7RN
20th, 22nd, 29th - 10am-7pm
June
- Maidstone Leisure Centre
M15 7RN
3rd - 10am-7pm - Northfield Leisure Centre
B31 2PD
24th, 25th, 26th, 27th - 10am-7pm
July:
- AquaSplash
JE2 4HE
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th - 10am-7pm
August
- Oswestry Leisure Centre
SY11 4QB
6th, 7th, 8th, 9th - 10am-7pm
September:
- Erdington Leisure Centre
B24 9HU
11th, 12th, 13th - 10am-7pm
14th - 9am-5pm - Rebecca Adlington Leisure Centre
NG19 7BZ
23rd, 24th , 25th - 10am-7pm
22nd - 9am-5pm - Water Meadows Leisure Complex
NG18 1BA
23rd, 24th, 25th, - 10am-7pm
22nd - 9am-5pm - Sir Jason Kenny Centre
BL3 5BN
23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th - 10am-7pm
October
- Basingstoke Aquadrome
RG22 6PG
29th, 30th, 31st - 10am-7pm
November:
- Basingstoke Aquadrome
RG22 6PG
1st - 10am-7pm - Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
9th, 10th, 16th, 17th - 9am-5pm - Ladywood Leisure Centre
B16 8TR
12th, 13th, 14th, 15th - 10am-7pm - Maidstone Leisure Centre
M15 7RN
26th, 27th, 28th, 29th - 10am-7pm
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.
2024 Courses
February
- Water Meadows Leisure Complex
NG18 1BA
26th, 27th, 28th, 29th - 9am-5pm
March
- Swallows Leisure Centre
ME10 4NT
5th, 6th, 7th, 8th - 10am-7pm - Erdington Leisure Centre
B24 9HU
12th, 13th, 14th,15th - 9am-5pm - Horwich Leisure Centre
BL6 5PY
25th, 26th, 27th, 28th - 9am-6pm
April
- Oswestry Leisure Centre
SY11 4QB
2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th - 9am-5pm
May
- Stechford Leisure Centre
B33 8QN
14th, 15th, 16th, 17th - 9am-5pm - Tadley Health & Fitness Centre
RG26 3LA
31st 9am-5pm
June
- Tadley Health & Fitness Centre
RG26 3LA
1st, 2nd, 3rd - 9am-5pm - Bangor Aurora Aquatics & Leisure Centre
BT20 4TH
24th, 25th, 26th, 27th - 9am-5pm
August:
- Cocks Moors Woods Leisure Centre
B14 6ER
14th, 15th, 16th, 17th - 9am-5pm - Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
27th, 28th, 29th, 30th - 9am-5pm
September
- Maidstone Leisure Centre
M15 7RN
17th, 18th, 19th, 20th - 9am-5pm
October:
- Northfield Leisure Centre
B31 2PD
1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th - 9am-5pm
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)
More courses to follow, check back for updates or click below to email us to book onto a course.
2024 Courses
February
- Ladywood Leisure Centre
B16 8TR
17th, 18th, 19th - 9am-5pm
March
- Maidstone Leisure Centre
M15 7RN
25th, 26th, 27th - 9am-5pm
April
- Stoke Mandeville Stadium
HP21 9PP
21st, 22nd, 23rd - 9am-5pm - Oswestry Leisure Centre
SY11 4QB
24th, 25th, 26th - 9am-5pm
September
- Rebecca Adlington Leisure Centre
NG19 7BZ
11th, 12th, 13th - 9am-5pm