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STA Level 2 Swimming Teacher

STA Level 2 Swimming Teacher

Price range: £495.00 through £525.00 incl. VAT

The STA Level 2 Swimming Teacher qualification is the perfect step to begin your exciting career as a swimming teacher, and with no previous experience required, you can get started right away.

This new qualification replaces the STA Award and STA Certificate qualifications, meaning one qualification, one clear pathway.

What will you learn?

The enhanced curriculum blends technical foundations with practical, hands-on teaching experience, covering:

  • Core swimming strokes and stroke development
  • Essential swimming skills and water confidence
  • Survival and rescue techniques
  • Water safety education for all age groups
  • Planning, delivering and evaluating progressive lessons
  • Inclusive teaching and adapting for different abilities, facilities and needs
  • Communication skills, teamwork and other work-ready skills
  • Safe, professional poolside practice
  • How to teach safe, fun, progressive and inclusive lessons to adult and child learn to swim participants.

By the end of the course, you will be confident and ready to teach independently on poolside.

How Will the Qualification Benefit You?

  • Created by STA’s aquatic experts, providing you with quality training
  • A fully regulated qualification meaning you know its of a high standard
  • Recognised internationally, allowing you to take your swimming teaching career around the world
  • Develops the vocational skills and technical knowledge of a qualified swimming teacher, allowing you to independently teach your very own class of 12 participants from non-swimmers up to improvers (children and adults).

Who is the qualification for?

This qualification is ideal if you:

  • Are new to swimming teaching and want a direct, simple route into the profession
  • Already work in leisure and want to move into a teaching role
  • Are an employer looking to upskill staff through a modern, flexible pathway
  • Have an enjoyment of swimming and want to develop their love of the sport further.

No prior teaching experience is required – just enthusiasm, commitment, and a passion for helping people learn to swim.

Support that continues after you qualify

Your development doesn’t end when the course does. The qualification is designed to provide you with ongoing support as you step into your new career.

On completion, you’ll receive:

  • An additional package of eight CPDs
  • 12 months of STA membership, which includes Public Liability and Professional Indemnity Insurance
  • Access to webinars, resources, and guidance
  • Opportunities to grow your skills and teaching profile.

Plus, you’ll join a national community of more than 20,000 aquatic professionals who together are shaping the future of swimming.

How to Take Your Swimming Teaching Career Further

Once qualified, progress on your teaching pathway by continuing to expand your knowledge. Why not look at some of the CPD’s available on STA online or expand your swimming teaching portfolio by teaching those with disabilities or baby and preschool participants with our People with Disabilities and Baby and Pre-School Award qualifications. Alternatively, why not consider teaching Aquafit with our Aquacise qualification or have fun being a mermaid or merman with the Monofin qualifications?

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Dates

24th to 27th October (Liverpool), 26th to 29th October (Bradford), 27th to 30th October (Sunderland), 15th to 18th Feb 2027 (Bradford)

Assessment Information

This course includes a variety of assessment methods as detailed below:

  • Blended learning via STA online if required
  • Theory assessment, which is marked by the course tutor which comprises of completion of 3 x lesson plans and a lesson evaluation form
  • Multi-choice question paper
  • Assessment of practical teaching, which is assessed by the course tutor and involves you delivering at least 6 x 30 min lessons during the course.

All practical elements must be completed and performed independently by the learner without prompting by the tutor.

The skills within the course and during the assessments must be performed in line with the most current version of the STA Swimming Teacher resource manual.

The multiple-choice assessment paper must be completed in exam conditions, with the tutor or other approved person, acting as the invigilator. Learners must achieve a minimum mark or higher to pass the multiple-choice assessment paper successfully. All learning outcomes and assessment criteria in the units must be met for the learner to be deemed competent and pass the course.

Remote Multi-choice assessments?

Some of our courses include remote multi choice question papers via a system called Cirrus. Where this is the case you also must ensure the following ready at your allocated assessment slot. Failure to do so will result in a resit fee of £50:

  • Stable internet connection
  • Working webcam or laptop camera – note a mobile device or tablet will not work
  • The most up-to-date version of Chrome with Admin rights available for the device
  • Mic, speaker or headset/earphones
  • Photographic ID.

You can make notes on plain paper.

You will be sent an email confirming the data and time and be sent an email by IATDE with your username and password and the link to the online assessment.

Once logged in you will need to:

  • Show your photo ID to the webcam (either passport or driving licence)
  • Move the webcam around the room to ensure there are no additional items that will aid you in the assessment.

Re-assessments

While we hope this wont apply to anybody we are aware that sometimes nerves get the better of us! Where this is the case if a learner is unsuccessful of any part of the assessment process they will only have to re-sit the required element. If this is on the multiple-choice question paper, then only the specific units that have been failed will need to be resat, not the whole paper.

Resits must take place within 6 weeks of the fail and incur a minimum charge of £25. For resits using Cirrus, there is an additional £20 licence fee for the exam, due to the costs we incur to access and use the system. This means Cirrus rests are at least £45.

Pre-requisites

You’ll need to make sure you’ve met the following requirements before you attend your course:

  • Be at least 16 years of age at point of assessment
  • Have completed, if required, all applicable blended online pre-learning issued via STA Online.

Online E-Learning Pre-requisites

For some courses we are able to reduce the face-to-face contact time by allocating online e-learning as a pre-requisite. This may not be the case on every course and you will be told on the booking page if this is the case, however, as a rule of thumb if your course is less than 7 days in length there will be pre-learning.

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. Refunds are not issued if these are not in place and you cannot attend the training.

Important Note: the e-learning modules do take time (up to about 20 hours) and MUST be completed before day 1 of the course. Therefore, please ensure you timetable these in time. Refunds will not be issued for those who fail to complete the e-learning in time.

For support regarding additional needs, please see our Reasonable Adjustment policy and contact us for support.

Payment Plans and Invoicing

Payment plans are available for all courses run by in at the deep end!

Invoicing

If you would prefer we invoice an employer, please contact us with the relevant information, and we can arrange this for you.

No course materials will be supplied until a purchase order has been received.

Monthly Payment

Flexible monthly payments are available via GoCardless for a set fee of £20 and £2 per payment.

As an example somebody who had a course total of £275 and wished to pay over 5 instalments would pay £63 per month. This is made up of the £275 fee, £20 admin charge and 5 x £2 monthly payment fees giving a total of £315.

The following additional terms and conditions apply to flexible payments:

  • Failed payments will be subject to a £7.50 admin fee
  • Places will be reserved once the payment plan is set up via GoCardless
  • A minimum of £75 must have been paid before course materials will be sent out
  • The full and final payment must be made before submission of your work for certification
  • Refunds will be processed in accordance with our Booking Terms and Conditions and additional information below. Any refunds will be minus the £20 admin fee and £2 per transaction fee
  • Any chargebacks to direct debits result in removal from the course and a £25 admin fee to re-join.

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