Job Detail
Job Description
Job Title: Baby and Preschool Swimming Teacher
Location: Edinburgh Lothian’s and Fife
Hourly Rate: £20.00 per hour. Self Employed
Closing Date: 01/02/2022
Specific Details: Weekend availability essential – part time hours
Apply to: keith@merbabies.online
Merbabies Swim School are recruiting Baby to Preschool Swim Teachers to join our growing team.
You may already be a qualified Level 2 Baby to Preschool Swim Teacher or you may be looking for some support in getting qualified.
Our ethos is Teach with Love and Learn through Play and we are consistently rated as 5* by our customers, as well as STA accredited. But more than anything we see the joy on our baby swimmers faces, and see their confidence and happiness in the water, and know we are doing something very worthwhile.
We teach over 500 baby swimmers a week across Edinburgh, The Lothians and Fife and continue to grow.
About the role…
As a Merbabies teacher, you’re helping children reach their full potential with our gentle, child led ethos of teach with love and learn through play swimming programme. Our amazing Merbabies swim teachers can deliver unforgettable moments to parents with their young children, and it is a highly rewarding job. The lifesaving baby and child swimming skills that we teach at Merbabies have now helped over two thousand children to be safe in the water from a very young age, and this figure continues to grow every month.
Merbabies are looking for exceptional people to become part of the Merbabies family and inspire our next generation of baby and preschool swimmers. We know that to see the joy of a child that has just managed to accomplish something for the first time is priceless. Being a Merbabies teacher is a demanding but fun and rewarding role.
The role
• Leading group parent and child classes, teaching young children (birth to preschool age) to swim, using the Merbabies child led ethos of teach with love and learn through play swimming programmes. The teaching classes are 100% pool based so you will need to love being in the water. Full training is provided.
• Working at various pool locations to be agreed in advance with you, throughout the Edinburgh, Lothians, and Fife Locations.
• Regular weekly hours will be agreed with you: Merbabies classes run 7 days per week, so you will need to work at least one weekend session (from 3 hours+) per week throughout our year (which runs in conjunction with the Scottish School Calendar year). This also means you are normally on holiday for the full School Summer, Easter, and Christmas holiday periods, fitting in well with family or student life.
• Merbabies teachers work on average between 5 to 15 hours per week on self-employed basis, fitting teaching around either study or family life. Pay rate is £20 per hour on a self-employed basis. We are happy to try to be flexible on working hours to fit in with your personal requirements considering our swim class schedule.
Experience and Qualifications Required
• We’d love new teachers to have previous swim teaching experience and a Level 2 Baby to Preschool Swim Teacher qualification or equivalent.
• However, we can support you to obtain this qualification if you have a background in either childcare, swimming, or an experienced parent and are interested in starting your teaching career with Merbabies.
• As you will be working with babies, young children, and parents, you will have an engaging, confident, fun and outgoing personality to match this type of work.
• Our classes are 100% swimming pool based, so you will need to love being in the pool 100% of the time.
• You must be able to work a minimum of at least one-half day at the weekend. We can be flexible with working hours (fitting in with our swim classes) but the above would be a minimum requirement. There may also be the opportunity to teach classes Monday through to Friday, but weekends are a prerequisite.
• Due to the various pool locations, you would need to have your own transport and full driving licence.
On Offer
• Pay rate is £20 per hour on a self-employed basis.
• You will work in a fun and supportive environment. Full training on teaching Merbabies Swim Classes will be provided by our highly experiences teaching team.
• Support if required to obtain professional swim teaching qualifications (Cost covered by Merbabies).
• Along with an excellent rate of pay, , a career teaching young babies and children to swim is highly rewarding and personally satisfying.
• You are on holiday for the full School Summer, Easter, and Christmas periods in line with the Scottish Education calendar, fitting in well with family or student life and giving you plenty o time away from the pool.
• Join our warm, supportive team of teachers making a difference.
To apply please email your CV to keith@merbabies.online