Regional Aquatics Manager
| Posting date: | 25 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £15642-15642 per annum |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 05 October 2025 |
| Location: | Shropshire, SY1 1RU |
| Company: | Serco Limited |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 304841-43675762 |
Summary
Serco Limited
£15,642 per annum
Part time
- 20 hours per week including weekends
- flexibleCovering the Shropshire Leisure Cluster
Ready to make an impact?
As a Regional Aquatics Manager in our Shropshire Leisure team, you’ll drive the growth, quality, and success of swimming lessons and aquatic programmes across multiple sites.
Your work will make a real difference by helping people build confidence in the water, while supporting local communities and developing a team that delivers excellence.
You’ll be entrusted to:
· Deliver the Serco Leisure National Aquatics Strategy within your region.
· Manage and grow swimming lesson and aquatics programmes, ensuring quality, retention, and sustainable growth through a data-driven approach.
· Lead, mentor, and develop Swimming Coordinators, driving performance and building future talent.
· Oversee school swimming programmes, ensuring delivery that meets community needs.
· Support the mobilisation of new sites, ensuring consistent product standards.
· Monitor programme performance using reports and KPIs, implementing improvements where needed.
· Work with Marketing and Digital teams to promote aquatics programmes and strengthen customer engagement.
· Ensure compliance with safeguarding, qualifications, training standards, and health and safety requirements.
Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…
· Experience of working in a busy leisure environment across multiple sites.
· A proven track record of growing and improving swimming lesson programmes.
· Experience of leading teams through change, mentoring staff, and driving performance.
· STA or Swim England Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming (essential).
· Award in Education and Training Level 3 (essential – or willing to achieve).
· Safeguarding CPD (essential).
· A full driving licence and willingness to travel across the region.
Discover all you need to keep growing
Here you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.
Because this is a place for you
Our people are integral to everything we do. That’s why our benefits are designed to put you first:
· Holidays: Up to 25 days plus bank holidays – pro rata
· Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
· Training and development: A wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
· Health and wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, Simplyhealth cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.
· Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel.
· Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community.
· Charity: Support a charity or organisation with a paid volunteering day each year. You can also choose to donate to your favourite charity tax-free, through our Payroll Giving Scheme.
· Leisure Specific benefits
- Employee Benefits
£15,642 per annum
Part time
- 20 hours per week including weekends
- flexibleCovering the Shropshire Leisure Cluster
Ready to make an impact?
As a Regional Aquatics Manager in our Shropshire Leisure team, you’ll drive the growth, quality, and success of swimming lessons and aquatic programmes across multiple sites.
Your work will make a real difference by helping people build confidence in the water, while supporting local communities and developing a team that delivers excellence.
You’ll be entrusted to:
· Deliver the Serco Leisure National Aquatics Strategy within your region.
· Manage and grow swimming lesson and aquatics programmes, ensuring quality, retention, and sustainable growth through a data-driven approach.
· Lead, mentor, and develop Swimming Coordinators, driving performance and building future talent.
· Oversee school swimming programmes, ensuring delivery that meets community needs.
· Support the mobilisation of new sites, ensuring consistent product standards.
· Monitor programme performance using reports and KPIs, implementing improvements where needed.
· Work with Marketing and Digital teams to promote aquatics programmes and strengthen customer engagement.
· Ensure compliance with safeguarding, qualifications, training standards, and health and safety requirements.
Does this sound like you?
You’ll be a great fit for this role if you have…
· Experience of working in a busy leisure environment across multiple sites.
· A proven track record of growing and improving swimming lesson programmes.
· Experience of leading teams through change, mentoring staff, and driving performance.
· STA or Swim England Level 2 Certificate in Teaching Swimming (essential).
· Award in Education and Training Level 3 (essential – or willing to achieve).
· Safeguarding CPD (essential).
· A full driving licence and willingness to travel across the region.
Discover all you need to keep growing
Here you’ll be part of a highly supportive culture with leaders you can count on to help you achieve your goals. From mentoring and training to our focus on internal progression, we’re proud to offer clear development opportunities – and the support and tools to help you seize them.
Because this is a place for you
Our people are integral to everything we do. That’s why our benefits are designed to put you first:
· Holidays: Up to 25 days plus bank holidays – pro rata
· Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
· Training and development: A wide range of learning opportunities with over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression.
· Health and wellbeing: 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, Simplyhealth cash plans to claim back money towards healthcare costs, 30% off at Serco-managed leisure centres.
· Discounts: Save across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel.
· Employee networks: Dedicated networks where colleagues can come together to find support, share challenges, discuss ideas, network and be part of a community.
· Charity: Support a charity or organisation with a paid volunteering day each year. You can also choose to donate to your favourite charity tax-free, through our Payroll Giving Scheme.
· Leisure Specific benefits
- Employee Benefits
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