Swim teaching - To struggle to think of reasonable adjustments for ADHD?

Has she recently qualified?
SE or STA?
How did she get on with the course?
Whilst you're looking at adjustments what does she want adjustment wise?
She has got to want to help herself rather than expect you to do it all just because she wants to teach

There is a reason they are called reasonable adjustments. How long have you basically being paying two people to do one job? Because it is not reasonable to expect you to do that long term. What has she done to help herself during this time? Has she suggested anything that may help with how she handles the pool environment/children?

How did she qualify,? surely these issues would have came up on her course? Why does she have her own lessons? Can she assist a teacher instead of taking a leading role?

It's sounds as though reasonable adjustments are being made for Jenny already.

Jenny needs to take on the responsibility of not being late, having thinks in place to make sure she is on time and has all of her equipment. I think an employer can offer advice on what might help, but ultimately it's up to Jenny to implement these.

Does Jenny have a diagnosis and take medication? It sounds as though she could benefit from professional help before she loses her job.

This.
Just because we want to do a job, doesn’t mean we can. I might want to be a model but I’m not pretty enough. And I’m not clever enough to be a professor of astrophysics. And I’m not patient enough to make mosaics.
Jenny doesn’t have the right temperament to teach kids to swim. Regardless of whether someone has ADHD, ASD or just personality traits, if their temperament doesn’t fit the job, then there are no “reasonable adjustments” that can facilitate it.

Sorry but another parent saying it just doesn't sound like it will work unfortunately child safety is priority.
Surely parents must have noticed her becoming frantic and distressed and leaving the children alone in the pool?
We sit poolside at swimming lessons, but up on the stands, I think there would likely be mass parental panic if the instructor got out and left 4yos in the pool?

I can’t believe the parents are just accepting this behaviour tbh. My child would not be going back to that lesson if the swimming teacher got frantic and cried. Sorry OP safety first, she needs a different role.

How long has she had the job? Have you addressed any of this with her? What feedback are the parents giving?

You cannot compromise safety. There are few more dangerous places for children to be with an adult who’s not in control than water!

This is the wrong job for her. She cannot co-regulate children and keep them safe whilst she is so dysregulated herself. You can make adjustments for the organisation side of things but fundamentally she cannot regulate herself and doesn’t seem to have any strategies or insight into how to help herself.

I would be surprised at parents witnessing this and still keep paying for lessons with this girl.

Jenny is in the wrong job.

I'm a swimming teacher. We can't be late for lessons. We also can't leave children unattended and cry and become frantic. It doesn't sound like the job is suitable to her needs. There's alot for sensory overload at swimming pools lights,noise, temperature etc. She might be better teaching 121 sessions where she can focus on 1 child or 2 to 1

Have you approached access to work for an assessment?

I don't know but maybe another job might be better for her. I would leave/complain if I was the parent here. One of my DS is autistic and would not cope with her as a teacher at all and doesn't sound like many children can enjoy her lessons or be safe

Do you offer adult lessons? Or is there a different, non-teaching, role she could be moved to?

TBH it sounds like she’s never actually going to be competent to do this particular role.

Swimming has to have safety as a priority, rather than some wishy washy sense of Jenny needing to be accommodated because she's nice.

Find her another role where her dysregulation won't end in a child drowning.

I have ADHD and I am sorry I am not going to be as kind as the other poster with ADHD! Children's safety is at risk - Jenny needs to be getting written warnings for lateness ect. Offer to sit down with her and discuss timing for getting ready for work if you want to - ie what time she needs to wake up, what she needs to pack the day before etc etc....but you can't really solve the emotional dysregulation thing unless she agrees to see a therapist.

People with ADHD absolutely do very well if we find jobs we want to hyperfocus on - if Janny is not shining at work then swim teacher might not be the right thing for her and better to help her explore another profession.

Jenny sounds like a liability.

What do you mean she gets frantic when the kids are trying to regulate??

I'm wondering how she got the job as it doesn't sound as if it suits her. Another who would not be happy if my child was in the pool with this person,

What does she say when she's late? Does she realise all the things you've listed and acknowledges they need to be dealt with?

My young children are learning to swim and we would be finding a new teacher in this situation. It doesn't sound like this role is suited to her.

I think our responses could be more helpful if we knew if you were her manager at the pool, a caring friend or parent or a professional consultant.

— laminated lists of materials required.

• a laminated time table.
• a waterproof tub to keep these items together
• a brief catch up ten minutes before the first lesson to recap what she has to do today
• a meeting with her supervisor to discuss the situation. She is probably feeling a great deal of shame and this will add to the stress that is impacting her executive functioning.

There are various things you can do to help the organisational aspects but sometimes people are just not suited to a job. A teacher who can't cope with disregulated children is never going to work.

Agree. As someone with a young child who’s new to swimming I find what’s been described terrifying. Her safety is my number one priority, I don’t care if the teacher is dishevelled but not freaking out while in charge of making sure my daughter doesn’t fucking drown is essential rather than optional.

The safety & well-being of the children needs to come first & it's not a 'reasonable' adjustment to compromise that.
Having a disability doesn't mean someone can be incompetent, someone teaching children should not be crying & becoming dysregulated by children being children.

Can she move to teaching adults or teaching 1:1 or move to a job where she is coaching older children in a club.