STA Certificate in Teaching Swimming

Master the Techniques and Strategies for Teaching Swimming Safely and Effectively

Progress on your teaching pathway with the STA Certificate in Teaching Swimming—the next step which meets CIMSPA's employer-led swimming teacher professional standard. The qualification will expand your expertise to teach competitive strokes, survival and rescue skills, diving, and competitive starts and turns, allowing you to teach non-swimmers to advanced participants.

Course pre-requisites, availability and booking

To book a course:

1. You'll need to meet the pre-requisites before attending your course.

2. Please create a Training Course Attendee account to book your course place.

3. Once you have your account, please search for 'teaching swimming' in our course search portal for course availability and booking, including price, dates and location. 

The full course cost is £365 and full payment is required at the time of booking.

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.

• Hold current membership of STA.

• Hold the STA Award in Teaching Swimming qualification or acceptable equivalent (please note the Swim England Level 1 Award in Aquatic Teaching is not an acceptable pre-requisite).

Need help with something? 

Most of your questions can be answered by visiting our course support topics below. If you still have a question, you can make contact with a member of the tutor team at leisureadmin@teignbridge.gov.uk.   

Course support topics

• Terms and conditions

• Benefits of becoming a swimming teacher

• What to bring with you to the course

• When you get your qualification

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