Recreation Assistant - Part Time - Woking Leisure Centre

Freedom Leisure is looking for a Recreation Assistant to join our friendly and professional team at Woking Leisure Centre. In this role you will be assisting in providing a safe, enjoyable environment for our customers and clients and helping to ensure their return visits.

Integrating within the team, your role will include assisting with supervision and presentation of the building facilities, ensuring the effective delivery of the daily activity programme and working alongside the Recreation Assistants in a Senior role capacity, as well as with the Duty Manager Team. You will also be carrying out a wide variety of duties which include sports equipment set-ups, function rigs and de-rigs and actively engaging with our customers, colleagues and hirers to provide a first-class experience. Also included will be in-house and external training courses to help with your overall development, aspirations and career progression.

We are a not-for-profit leisure trust with we have a strong purpose and commitment to support our local communities and hard-to-reach groups encouraging them to become more active, contributing to improved lives. From Basketball, to walking football and everything in-between we are driven to provide fun and welcoming sessions to support the whole community to be active, both within our leisure centres and in the local community.

The good thing is that we provide you with full training and great potential for career progression, we have over 100 facilities across England and Wales - many of our staff have built successful careers with us because they love the having a positive impact in their local communities and enjoy the variety that the role provides.

If you feel you're an organised and a motivated leader who can help manage a busy, progressive and fun facility, then we look forward to hearing from you.

• An ability and understanding of how to relate to customers of all ages and abilities and also to all levels of staff


• Well developed interpersonal skills


• Team orientated approach, able to work across organisation boundaries and demonstrate interest and be supportive of the work of staff and colleagues


• To be able to work flexibly and understand instructions from managers


• Demonstrated passion and energy for the leisure industry


• Flexible and adaptable
  
  Do you want to make a difference within your local community, supporting people to improve their lives through leisure? If you feel driven to inspire people to be more active, improve their wellbeing and would like a job that will make a real different to local people's lives then Freedom Leisure is the place for you!
  
  We want you to love coming to work, feeling healthy, happy and valued. That's why we've developed a benefits package with you in mind, so what can we offer you?


• My Staff Shop, our very own staff benefit scheme, gives employees access to a great range of benefits. Get discounts on cinema tickets, travel bookings, high street e-vouchers, gift cards, days out, leisure activities and your day to day spending.


• Discounted Staff membership (including family members)


• Incremental holidays


• Employee Assistance Programme - 24/7 confidential, independent and professional counselling.


• Company pension


• Various insurance and saving schemes


• Financial advice


• Cycle-to-work and Car Leasing tax-efficient schemes (salaried staff only, depending on earnings)


• All this as well as fully funded training and career progression opportunities in a team working environment