Academy | Teaching Swimming level 2 certificate

Why develop your skills as a swimming instructor?

So, you've taken the first step in mastering the technical skills behind running a successful swim lesson. But what next?

Build on your newly gained skills from the STA Level 2 Award in Teaching Swimming to expand your expertise in teaching competitive strokes, survival and rescue skills, diving, and competitive starts and turns for non-swimmers through to advanced participants.

Why take your Teaching Swimming certificate with the Virgin Active academy?

Take the next step in your career as a Swimming Instructor with the help of our dedicated tutors.

Qualifying on this STA and CIMSPA affiliated course with the Virgin Active academy guarantees you an interview with one of our UK clubs; we're always looking for the brightest talent out there.

This course will cover the following:

Planning, delivering, assessing and evaluating swimming lessons
Understanding a swimming instructor's role
Understanding the health and safety requirements for an aquatic environment
Understanding the safety requirements for advanced swimming skills
Planning, delivering and assessing advanced swimming skills
Understanding swimming within education.

How will the course be assessed?

You will be assessed through the completion of worksheets, schemes of work, lesson plans, lesson evaluation forms and practical teaching, with an external assessment on the final day of the course.