If you would like to be a part of a baby’s first steps into water, and help make their experience the best they can possibly have, then teaching babies and young children is for you!
How Will the Qualification Benefit You?
- Created by STA’s aquatic experts, providing you with quality training
- Regulated by Ofqual and Accredited by SQA Accreditation
- It will allow you to teach a class of parents and babies as a fully qualified and confident baby and pre-school teacher.
When You Get Your Qualification
- You will be able to gain employment as a baby and pre-school swimming teacher who can teach babies through to pre-schoolers in adult and child swimming lessons
- You will be qualified to teach the STARFISH and STAnley stages of STA’s progressive International Learn to Swim Programme
- Your course resource manual will act as a guide throughout your baby and pre-school swimming teaching journey – always there for you to refer to should you need it
- Keep your knowledge and skills up-to-date with regular CPDs.
There is no experience of working with children or teaching swimming lessons required. This qualification might appeal to you if you are looking for a career that fits around childcare. You’ll be part of a baby’s first steps into water and be there to make it the best experience for them. You get to work with babies, pre-schoolers and their adults and help them to develop as swimmers and be part of their beautiful journey of swimming. You’d be teaching them a very important life skill.
There are options to seek employment in a wide variety of leisure facilities including private health clubs, school swimming pools and with the huge number of swimming schools around. Or maybe even set up your own swimming school!
Before You Get Started…
You’ll need to make sure you’ve met the following requirements before you attend your course:
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, post course submissions will not be accepted.