By STA Excel

STA Level 3 Award in Pool Plant Operations

Course Date:

  • 2 April to 4 April 2025 (Birmingham)
  • 28 April to 30 April 2025 (Berkshire)
  • 5 May to 7 May 2025 (Yeovil)
  • 25 June to 27 June 2025 (Edinburgh)
  • 19 August to 21 August 2025 (Glasgow)
  • 25 September to 27 September 2025 (Glasgow)

Total Course Time: 3 Days

Guided Learning Hours: 27 Hours

Format: In person

Course Type: Regulated Qualification

Industry Area: Leisure Operations

Venue: Nuffield Health Birmingham Central Fitness & Wellbeing Gym, Broadway Plaza, 220 Ladywood, Middleway, Birmingham, B16 8LP or Nuffield Health Fitness and Wellbeing, Racecourse Road, Newbury, RG14 7PN or Yeovil Fitness & Wellbeing, Unit 3 Yeovale Leisure Park, Old Station Rd, Yeovil, BA20 1NP or Nuffield Health Edinburgh Fountain Park, 65-95 Dundee Street, Edinburgh, EH11 1AF or Nuffield Health, Glasgow West End, 11 Minerva Way, Glasgow, G3 8AU

Region: Berkshire, Birmingham, Scotland, and Somerset

The qualification provides the theory behind pool plant operations and maintenance, as well as providing learners with information on best practice principles and information on health, safety and legal responsibilities.

Through their awarding organisation, Safety Training Awards, STA Excel provides vocational qualifications tailored to the health and leisure industry. Their focus on professionalism and quality ensures that every course is delivered with precision and care. Rooted in STA’s mission to save lives, their training goes beyond certifications, instilling real-world skills for safety and survival. Choose STA Excel for training that is serious, structured, and impactful—because when it comes to saving lives, there’s no room for compromise.

£384.00
£384.00
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£384.00
£384.00

Training Overview

Course details

Key learning outcomes

  • Principles of healthy and hygienic pool water
  • Principles of pool water testing
  • Principles of disinfection, pool chemistry and dosing in pool plant operations
  • Principles of mechanical pool plant operations
  • Swimming pool heating, ventilation and energy efficiency
  • Management practices and health and safety in pool plant operations

These units give the learner the knowledge and skills to maintain and operate a pool, spa and interactive water feature plant, ensuring safe, clear and hygienic water.

Course features

The qualification is assessed via an MCQ assessment and a practical demonstration of water testing.

Prerequisites - what's required to participate?

Learners must be 16 years of age or above on the first day of the course. It is advisable that learners have a minimum of level 2 in literacy or numeracy.

Career Development

This qualification is for people who have a specific responsibility for pool plant operations, maintaining plant rooms, ensuring safe bather conditions and water testing. On successful completion they will be able to undertake the role of managing the pool plant and pool water within a variety of facilities.

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