Leisure Assistant

Here at Shropshire Leisure Community Trust our goal is to get more people, more active, more often. We provide affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities to support healthier and happier people across all segments of the local community. To deliver those services takes an enthusiastic and customer focused team - and right now we are looking to recruit for a Senior Leisure Assistant to join our centre. As a Leisure Assistant you'll play an important part of life here at the centre as you ensure that everyone who visits the centre will be safe and have access to everything, they need to enjoy their visit. This will involve you providing customer care to people of all ages including children, supervising sports, arts and crafts activities, maintaining high standards of cleanliness, and ensuring the safe handling and set up of activity equipment. Without you there can't be any Leisure activities. But you won't be working alone. Our leisure centre has a close knit and supportive team, all working towards providing an inclusive leisure hub for the entire community and you will also receive free access to our Leisure facilities. Serco manages these facilities on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Trust., Meaningful and vital work: Working within Leisure means that you'll play a critical role in ensuring that the communities we serve receive exceptional service and you'll help to provide our local communities with a safe and fun environment to stay healthy and connected to others. A world of opportunity: It takes a diverse team to support our Leisure business and we're big on internal progression. So, whether you specialise your skills, undertake additional training or progress into senior management you'll find all the opportunity you need to evolve your career. Great people: Our staff are dedicated to providing the best possible service for our customers and we welcome those who take similar pride in their work. What we offer

• Free membership at the Centre ,plus heavily discounted use of classes and facilities
• Excellent Development and Training Opportunities with our in - house Aquatic Training Academy
• Free safeguarding training and DBS checks
• 6% employer matched pension contribution
• 22 days annual leave (Pro rata for part time) + Public Holidays
• Life assurance up to 2x base salary
• For all Leisure benefits please see Employee Benefits (moreleisure.com)
  
  You will need to have excellent customer service skills as you will be interacting heavily with our customers. So, whether you've earned that experience in a leisure or another customer facing environment, you will be a people person who is happy dealing with people of all ages and backgrounds., Google Chrome is the preferred browser to access Serco careers website