Position Overview & Specifications
We are Places Leisure, we run leisure sites across the UK to help people stay active and live their best lives.
We want you to join the Places for People Group and the 11,000 other colleagues on our journey; colleagues who have helped to build, manage, maintain places that people are proud to call home and stay active in. How do we do all this? We surround ourselves with fun people, active people and customer focussed people. Our people live and breathe our SPIRIT values; we are the place for spirited people.
More about your role
In this role you will be supporting the delivery of our Sports courses both wet (pool) and dry. We pride ourselves in our quality lessons and courses and the Sports Course Helper role is a fundamental part of delivering the best to our customers. You will be helping the teacher in their delivery from registration of participants to helping with equipment and teaching practices.
For more information please download our job profile available on our website.
More about you
You will be an energetic person who is willing to help people achieve their best. You may have experience in practising sports yourself so can share your experiences with participants whilst you support the teacher and coach in the lesson and course criteria.
The benefits
We are a large, diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.
We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:
- We align with the Real Living Wage foundation
- Full Health & Fitness membership for you, a nominated adult and up to 4 juniors
- Flexible working (including part time working, shift work and more)
- An opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
- Lots of opportunity to access ongoing personal learning and development
- Access to our Company Pension scheme
- Cashback plan for healthcare costs – up to £500 saving per year
- Discounts of up to 50% on activities, centre shop and cafes
- Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more.
Being a 7 day a week business, with opening hours from dawn ‘til dusk, Places Leisure offers flexible working patterns including shift work, job share and part time working. More than 80% of colleagues at Places Leisure actually work part time.
What's next?
If you meet the criteria and are ready to make the next step in your career then apply following our simple 5 minute application process, upload a CV and a supporting statement which demonstrates how you meet the requirements of the role.
Please note that we may bring the closing date forward, if we receive a large number of quality applications. If you are interested in this role we would advise applying immediately to avoid disappointment.
If you are using a mobile device such as an iPad then ensure your CV is stored in the cloud, we currently support Google Drive, OneDrive and Dropbox.