Assistant Swimming Instructor (Riverside Leisure Centre)
| Posting date: | 26 February 2026 |
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| Salary: | £27,171 to £28,257 per year, pro rata |
| Hours: | Part time |
| Closing date: | 12 March 2026 |
| Location: | Chelmsford, Essex |
| Remote working: | On-site only |
| Company: | Chelmsford City Council |
| Job type: | Permanent |
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Summary
Riverside Leisure Centre is Chelmsford City Council’s flagship leisure facility, offering a wide range of sports and fitness activities for all ages and abilities. Our vibrant team works together in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment to deliver outstanding experiences to our community.
We’re currently seeking enthusiastic and qualified Assistant Swimming Instructors who are passionate about teaching and inspiring both children and adults. In this role, the successful applicant will support our swimming instructors in delivering our year-round swimming lesson programme, helping learners build confidence, develop skills, and achieve their goals in the water.
Our lesson programme caters for parents and babies, toddlers, juniors and adults and runs at various times throughout the week. This vacancy is for 4 hours, Tuesday and Thursday 4 – 6pm.
Please note should sufficient applications be received prior to the closing date, we may close the role for applications early.
Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment checks which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.
We’re currently seeking enthusiastic and qualified Assistant Swimming Instructors who are passionate about teaching and inspiring both children and adults. In this role, the successful applicant will support our swimming instructors in delivering our year-round swimming lesson programme, helping learners build confidence, develop skills, and achieve their goals in the water.
Our lesson programme caters for parents and babies, toddlers, juniors and adults and runs at various times throughout the week. This vacancy is for 4 hours, Tuesday and Thursday 4 – 6pm.
Please note should sufficient applications be received prior to the closing date, we may close the role for applications early.
Chelmsford City Council is committed to safeguarding vulnerable groups and expects all employees to share this commitment and have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services. The Council's Safer Recruitment process contains pre-employment checks which includes safeguarding training, obtaining references and ensuring compliance with Disclosure and Barring Service process.
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