Aquatics Officer - Training and Development

The purpose of the job is to provide a professional, efficient and high quality service to customers of Your Trust. This includes being the lead for training and development of the Aquatics Team (Swimming Teachers and Leisure Attendant), ensuring all staff are skilled and able to perform their roles, delivering a range of in-house and open courses and ensuring compliance is in line with statutory and legal requirement and policies and procedures and standards and quality are maintained at all times.

• To lead on planning, preparing and delivering ongoing aquatic related training and development for all Aquatics Teams, ensuring a high standard and quality of delivery at all times.
• To be responsible for managing and maintaining the aquatic related training and development records for all Aquatics Teams.
• To ensure all Swimming Teachers are trained to deliver high quality swimming lessons at the appropriate level.
• To plan, prepare and deliver a range of open courses for external candidates, ensuring these are in line with the appropriate awarding bodies requirements.
• To monitor and evaluate all aquatics related training and development delivery to ensure consistency across all sites.
• To assist the Aquatics Manager with Training Centre Co-ordinator duties.
• To support the Aquatics Officer – Operations with recruiting and inducting of team members.
• To lead, contribute and develop a mentoring programme for new and existing team members to build a well-trained team who demonstrate commitment to Your Trust Values of Curiosity, Passion and Trust.
• To motivate and inspire staff by instilling a supportive, positive, enjoyable yet professional environment to work in.
• To ensure that the training and development activities and courses present a positive and professional image of Your Trust.
• To assist the Aquatics Manager to monitor and improve all aspects of the Aquatics Teams including information technology, administration, human resource management, business development and financial management.
• To be polite, friendly, courteous and helpful at all times and deal with basic enquiries from customers and members of the public appropriately.
• To undertake other such duties and responsibilities of an equivalent nature as may be determined by Line Manager including providing cover as necessary in the absence of staff.