Sports Coach with Swim Focus Apprenticeship
Halstead Centre Limited · Burnley · posted 10 September 2026
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Support children, families and communities through fun, inclusive swimming sessions. Working alongside pool coordinators and swim teachers, you’ll learn to plan, deliver and review sessions while gaining funded swim teaching and lifeguarding qualifications.
Your training
Level 2 Community Activator Coach Apprenticeship Standard with Swimming Specialism.
Sector specific CPD, such as:
- Level 2 STA Award in Swim Teaching
- Level 3 Award in Pool Lifeguarding (NPLQ)
- Pool maintenance and water testing CPD
- Supporting the PE curriculum (swimming focussed)
- Behaviour Management
- Safeguarding/Prevent
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Digital skills
- Functional skills in maths and English (where required)
Where it leads
Any career progression routes will be discussed upon successful completion of the apprenticeship.
About Halstead Centre Limited
The Halstead Centre is a small, family-run swimming school, established in 2011, specialising in swimming lessons for children and adults of different ages and abilities.
They operate from their own swimming pool, rather than using a large public leisure-centre pool. The pool was originally a Church of Latter Day Saints building dating back to the 1900s and was converted into a swimming pool around 1980.
Their swimming provision
They offer:
Children's swimming lessons – 30-minute lessons, Monday–Friday evenings and weekends
Pre-school swimming
Parent & child sessions
Adult swimming lessons
1-to-1 swimming lessons
Small group sizes, with generally 4–5 children per class
A viewing area for parents
Things to consider
The successful applicant will receive:
- Allocated workplace mentor
- Access to employer training
- Access to apprenticeship training delivered by Aspire Training Solutions
- Allocated learning hours within the working week 20% off the job learning
- All applicants will need to demonstrate they can pass an NPLQ swim test which will include the ability to jump/dive into deep water, swim 50 metres in less than 60 seconds, swim 100 metres continuously on front and back in deep water
Skills they're looking for
Where you'll work
- 1 LIVERPOOL ROAD, BURNLEY, BB12 6HQ
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