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 qualification will expand your expertise to teach competitive strokes, survival and rescue skills, diving, competitive starts and turns; allowing you to teach non-swimmers through to advanced participants.
How Will the Qualification Benefit You?
- Created by STA’s aquatic experts, providing you with quality training
- Regulated by Ofqual and Accredited by SQA Accreditation
- Meets CIMSPA’s employer-led swimming teacher professional standard
- Teach more lessons with a variety of skills
- Retain existing participants by offering progressive lessons, extended skills and advanced awards.
When You Get Your Qualification
- You will be able to gain employment as a swimming teacher who can teach non-swimmers through to advanced participants including advanced swimming skills to adult and child participants
- You’ll be qualified to deliver the full range of the of the STA Learn to Swim Programme and International Learn to Swim Programme
- Your course resource manual will act as a guide throughout your swimming teaching journey – always there for you to refer to should you need it
- Keep your knowledge and skills up-to-date with regular CPDs.
For ongoing support throughout your swimming teaching journey, become an STA Member. You will also gain:
- Access to free online support and resources
- Public liability insurance
- Discounts on award
- Technical advice and guidance from the STA team.
How to Take Your Swimming Teaching Career Further
Once qualified, expand your swimming teaching portfolio by teaching those with disabilities or baby and pre-school participants with our People with Disabilities and Baby and Pre-School Award qualifications.
You can also enhance your knowledge further and maintain your occupational competency by exploring STA’s broad range of online learning CPDs.
Interested? Before You Get Started…
You’ll need to make sure you’ve met the following requirements before you attend your course:
- Be at least 16 years of age
- Hold the STA Award in Teaching Swimming qualification or acceptable equivalent (please note the Swim England Level 1 Award in Aquatic Teaching is not an acceptable pre-requisite)
Learners must have all pre-requisites in place before the start of the course. Qualification certificates cannot be issued if all pre-requisites are not met before the start of the course, post course submissions will not be accepted.