Leisure Team Member Apprentice

SCL Education Group; Wantage; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading UK leisure provider is seeking a Leisure Team Member Apprentice at Wantage Leisure Centre. In this role, you'll provide customer support, assist in swimming lessons, and engage in training modules over 18 months. You will gain valuable qualifications including NPLQ and First Aid Level 3. This apprenticeship offers diverse career opportunities in a supportive environment, making a difference in community health and wellbeing.

Benefits

Career development opportunities

Inclusive workplace

Team collaboration environment

Qualifications

• Supporting different customers with varied needs.
• Conducting gym inductions and health screenings.
• Planning exercise sessions for customer goals.

Responsibilities

• Assist with customer queries regarding services.
• Deliver swimming lessons depending on qualifications.
• Participate in apprenticeship workshops and training.

Skills

Customer service

Communication

First Aid knowledge

Teaching Swimming

Fitness knowledge

Education

National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ)

First Aid at Work (Level 3)

Certificate in Teaching Swimming

Job description

Overview

GLL is currently recruiting a Leisure Team Member Apprentice to work in Wantage Leisure Centre, Vale of White Horse, OX12 9BY. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Leisure Team Member Apprentice, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than just a Leisure Team Member Apprenticeship; it's a career where you will be given the training to develop your career with the UK's largest leisure provider.

GLL is a not-for-profit charitable social enterprise committed to delivering a better quality of fitness and leisure, libraries, and performing arts facilities for everyone. We're committed to providing access to quality community facilities— and more — at a price everyone can afford. We already manage over 258 facilities, and we're adding more all the time, operating under our 'Better' brand. Unlike many other brands, we are for everyone. Community is at the heart of everything we do, and we want to make sure that everyone can live a healthy and active lifestyle.

What you’ll do

Customer Experience

• Understand the services and products on offer to assist with customer questions and queries.
• Support different types of customers with different needs.
• Support the centre in gaining customer feedback on our products and services, including dealing with customer complaints.
• Support the centre to deliver swimming lessons where required (qualification dependent).
• Share knowledge with customers on the role exercise plays in health and wellbeing.
• Conduct customers' gym inductions and health screening where required (qualification dependent).
• Plan and deliver exercise sessions to meet customers' health and fitness goals.

People Experience

• Support GLL's visions and values.
• Attend and participate in all apprenticeship workshops, meetings, and reviews with your tutor and General Manager.
• Ensure all training and qualification deadlines are met in agreement with your tutor and manager.
• Achieve and maintain all necessary qualifications, including ongoing CPD training.
• Keep up-to-date with trends and developments in the leisure industry.

As a leader within the leisure industry, we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

You will be enrolled on a Leisure Team Member apprenticeship programme which takes approximately 18 months to complete, as well as completing the following qualifications throughout the length of your apprenticeship:

Qualifications

• National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ)
• First Aid at Work (Level 3)
• Certificate in Teaching Swimming

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.