CHILDRENS ACTIVITY INSTRUCTOR

Discipline: Leisure and Fitness
Job type: Flexible
Salary: 12.60
Contact name: JOLENE SWANN

Job ref: 242435

GLL is looking for a Children’s Activity Instructor to work at Ulverston Leisure Centre. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Children’s Activity Instructor, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Children’s Activity Instructor job, it's a career. 

 

As a Children’s Activity Instructor, you will be responsible for engaging and inspiring children through various activities, ensuring their safety and enjoyment while fostering their development. 

 

What you’ll do: 

  • Comply with the commitments outlined in the ‘Customer Charter’, ensuring that standards are maintained as stipulated. 
  • Ensure that all compliance is followed. 
  • Follow the legal requirements in line with Ofsted legislation. 
  • Ensure you follow all relevant administration procedures. 
  • Ensure that every child is given equality of opportunity and they are all included and supported. 
  • Ensure care of over 8’s does not adversely affect the care of the under 8’s. 
  • Keep all areas and equipment checked and cleaned as per the cleaning matrix. 
  • Deal with, log, and report all safeguarding issues to the Children Activity Supervisor. 

What you need: 

  • Appropriate professional qualifications or experience working with children aged 5 years and above. 
  • Qualified and trained to a minimum Level 2 in Child Care / Play work or a Level 2 coaching qualification is desirable. 
  • Good understanding of the characteristics and qualities that guardians expect from a childcare provision. 
  • Knowledge of Ofsted Legislation. 
  • Knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation. 
  • Knowledge of GLL Safeguarding Policies, Procedures, and Code of Conduct on Safer Working Practices. 
  • Suitable level of experience working with children under 8 or a relevant child care / play work qualification. 
  • Experience of delivering an enabling environment whilst responding to children’s individual needs. 

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

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with! 

The basics: 

  • This is a Flexible position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service; flexible working may be possible. Working from home is not possible in this role. 
  • We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry-leading rates of pay. 
  • We can offer a career, not just a job, with extensive Learning & Development support available. 
  • A uniform will be supplied and must be worn. 
  • GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in. 
  • As a staff-owned organisation, you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business.