Casual Swimming Teacher
Lancaster City CouncilLancaster, North West
Overview
This is a local council role (full time) with Lancaster City Council based in Lancaster. The advertised salary is £25,949 to £26,403 per year. Applications close on 13 September 2026. GovJobs has indexed this vacancy from its official source — use the apply button to view the full advert and apply directly.
Job description
Lancaster City Council is recruiting for a Casual Swimming Teacher to work at the award-winning Salt Ayre Leisure Centre.
This is a fantastic opportunity for the right person to enter the Leisure industry and join an enthusiastic and passionate Salt Ayre Sharks Swim School.
Being a Swimming Teacher is a vital part of Salt Ayre Leisure Centre. You must have a desire to deliver Swimming Lessons within our Sharks Learn to Swim programme and Education programme in line with Swim England’s Swim programme.
This post is casual hours.
The successful applicant will be subject to enhanced clearance with the disclosure and barring service.
You will identify with our organisational values of Pride, Ownership, Working Together and Ambition.
Our Benefits
Lancaster is a great place to work, as well as being part of something special you will also benefit from:
- A discounted gym membership.
Lancaster City Council has unanimously declared a climate emergency and will therefore work towards reducing carbon emissions to net-zero by 2030. As part of this role, you will be expected to participate and work towards reducing both carbon emissions and the impacts of climate change.
We are an Investor in People, Forces Friendly employer, and an Armed Forces Covenant committed organisation. We welcome applications from defence reserves and other members of our armed forces community. We are an inclusive employer and welcome applications from all parts of our community.
At Lancaster City Council we aim to have a diverse workforce that is representative of the district that we serve and provide a working environment where each employee feels able to bring their whole self to work. We welcome applications from all sections of our community and provide several supportive and inclusive workplace networks and safe spaces for employees to feel connected. Our workplace wellbeing strategy drives our commitment to staff wellbeing initiatives and ensuring that our organisation is a great place to work for all.
We are a disability confident committed employer.
How this role compares
We hold 316 council vacancies in North West that publish a salary, and their median advertised starting figure is £36,822. This role pays less than about 89% of them.
There are 4,945 council roles open across the UK on GovJobs right now, 811 of them in North West.
You have 14 days left to apply. Council adverts we hold typically run for around 26 days, so this is about the usual amount of time.
Lancaster City Council has 10 other vacancies open on GovJobs, with a breakdown of what they pay and the kinds of roles they recruit for.
These figures are calculated from the vacancies GovJobs currently holds, not from official pay statistics. They are a guide to the market, not a valuation of this post.
How to apply
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