Swimming Teacher Courses
Start your swimming teacher course
Becoming a swimming teacher can be a rewarding yet challenging role. The swimming teacher qualification will help unlock your potential to deliver fun and safe swimming lessons, allowing children to develop water confidence and most importantly an invaluable life skill. We are also proud to run the country’s largest swim school programme, so there’s great opportunities for career progression with a range of vacancies available across our leisure centres.
What swimming teacher qualifications does Better offer?
View a range of swimming teacher courses and qualifications to build confidence, develop skills and progress your career.
What to expect from a swim teacher course
You’ll be supported from day one by our team of aquatics experts who will teach you everything you need to know to become a qualified swim teacher. You’ll increase your knowledge of practices, learn progression techniques, teaching points to structure classes, and how to apply it all in the most effective way within swim lessons. You’ll then be assessed through the completion of worksheets, schemes of work, lesson plans, lesson evaluation forms, and practical teaching assessments.
Hear from our qualified swim teachers
"I’ve been a swim teacher for the past 20 years, 14 of those years have been working with GLL. I love working as a swim teacher as it is so rewarding, working with children and adults. So when GLL asked me to pilot the swimbies I was really honoured to do so. Babies and preschool are one aspect of teaching I really love.Throughout my teaching years I’ve always been developing and updating qualifications. Diving, working with different disabilities and school lessons are just a few things I’ve been developed throughout my years of being a swimming teacher."
- Jasmine, Swim teacher
