Swimming Academy Manager

Post Title: Swimming Academy Manager

Site Location: BH Live Active - Bournemouth, Southampton and Portsmouth sites

Salary: £39,743 per annum

Hours: 37 hours per week

Contract Type: Fixed term – maternity leave cover

Anticipated start date: December 2025/January 2026

Expected end date: December 2026 or return of substantive postholder, whichever is sooner

The role:

We are recruiting for maternity cover to join our team as a Swimming Academy Manager, working across multiple BH Live active sites in Bournemouth, Southampton and Portsmouth.

This is a very busy role, and you will manage, deliver and uphold our high standards across all operational areas of the BH Live Swimming Academy.

Working closely with our area and Centre Managers you will ensure consistency, strong financial performance and optimal occupancy levels.

Travel across all sites is an essential requirement of this role, you will need a full driving licence, access to a vehicle and business car insurance – mileage will be paid for travel.

You will:

· Provide operational leadership of the BH Live Swimming academy across all relevant centres.

· Ensure delivery of high-quality Learn to Swim and school swimming programmes across all contracts.

· Conduct regular audits of programme performance, including monitoring key performance indicators such as occupancy, progression, and customer satisfaction.

· Ensure the effective use and maintenance of online booking and customer management systems to streamline class registration, payments, and communication.

· Monitor and use customer data and insights to inform programme improvements

· Manage and motivate the Senior Swimming Co-ordinators and ensure their effective performance across their divisional places of work.

You will need:

· Experience of managing and leading a team.

· A Swim England Level 2 Teachers Qualification

· Experience of working as a Swim Teacher.

· A driving license with access to a vehicle to travel across Bournemouth, Southampton and Portsmouth

· Enhanced DBS clearance.

BH Live is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including referencing and an enhanced DBS check.

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We offer:

· Onsite parking

· Training and development opportunities

· BH Live Active - Gym membership

· Health cash plan

· Employee Assistance programme

· Company pension matched up to 6% contributions

· Colleague discount on food and drink

· Colleague recognition

· Birthday / Celebratory day off

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

· More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing

· Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience

· Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.

As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.

We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.

To apply:

Please see the job description for more details on this role.

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site: careers.bhlive.org.uk

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.