Children's Activity Instructor

Better; Preston; On-site; GBP 18,000 - GBP 24,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading leisure operator in Preston is seeking a Children’s Activity Instructor to enhance customer experiences at the West View Leisure Centre. The role involves supervising events, ensuring safety, and providing excellent service in a busy environment. Ideal candidates should possess a can-do attitude, knowledge of health and safety, and be great team players. Flexible working options are available, catering to both full-time and part-time arrangements.

Benefits

Learning & development opportunities

Discounted gym membership

Good pension schemes

Exclusive discounts on activities and holidays

Health assurance

Free eye tests and discounted glasses

Qualifications

• Passion for customer service in a leisure environment.
• Ability to thrive in a busy environment.
• Experience supervising groups or events preferred.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a welcoming and professional service.
• Prepare and supervise events/activities.
• Ensure safety and cleanliness of areas and equipment.

Skills

Can-do attitude

Focus on customer service

Knowledge of health and safety

Team player

Job description

GLL is looking for aChildren’s Activity Instructor to join the team at West View Leisure Centre. If you have the passion to deliver excellent customer service in a leisure environment, there's never been a more exciting time to join us.

Children’s Activity Instructor will be the sort of person who thrives in a busy environment and will be unfazed by the variety of the role. Our Children’s Activity Instructor role is varied and could be doing anything from customer service, supervising birthday parties, equipment set ups and set downs, ensuring the general safety and cleanliness of areas and equipment to ensure our customers get an exceptional experience.

What you need

• A can-do attitude
• A real focus on customer service.
• Passion and personality>
• Knowledge of health and safety
• Be a great team player

What you’ll do

• Maintain a good and positive image of the centre to customers and the public by providing a welcoming, helpful and professional operational service.
• Prepare areas and equipment for events/activities/parties as appropriate.
• Carry out routine monitoring and non-specialist/basic maintenance of equipment and fittings as required, bringing to the attention of the Supervisor/Manager any faults or major repairs in line with company procedures.
• Be responsible for the efficient and effective control of the day-to-day operations and service of Birthday Parties/activities, ensuring that security, general cleanliness, customer supervision and equipment checks are maintained.
• Prepare areas and equipment for birthday parties/activities as required.
• Ensure that all equipment is used in a manner consistent with safe working practice.
• Ensure that equipment is fit for purpose prior to customers being allowed to make use of.
• Ensure excellent standards of cleanliness at all times.
• Promote the facility in a positive manner to retain existing customers, encourage greater participation, and introduce new users to the centre.

As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees

• A Values driven organisation
• Learning & development to support career development
• Good Pension schemes
• Discounted gym membership for you and your partner.
• Industry leading rates of pay
• Opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
• Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
• Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
• Health assurance
• Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.
• Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
• 25% off Red Letter Days
• 25% off Buy A Gift
• 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.
• Ride to work scheme
• Free eye tests and discounted glasses

About GLL

As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer two different types of work arrangements:

• A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
• A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work, and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.