Outdoor Instructor, PE28 0GW

Our Benefits

We value our colleagues in Cambridgeshire County Council and have developed several benefits in addition to the basics like annual leave, sick pay, pension, and mileage...

• A comprehensive wellbeing package to cover all aspects of wellbeing, both in and out of work, which family members can also access.
• Buy up to 4 weeks additional annual leave (pro-rata) through our salary sacrifice scheme.
• Take your bank holidays flexibly to better suit your personal circumstances.
• Make Additional Voluntary Contributions (Shared AVCs) to your pension with tax and National Insurance savings.
• Access to development opportunities, apprenticeships, and qualified coaches to support your personal and professional growth.
• Paid volunteering hours each year so you can make a positive impact on our community during your normal working day.
• Access to Peer Support Groups through our IDEAL staff equality, diversity, and inclusion network
• Opportunities to nominate and receive Employee Recognition Awards
• An Our Cambs Rewards account, giving you access to in-store and online discounts as well as our Car Lease and Cycle to Work schemes

Take a look at our Employment Benefits Brochure attached to this advert to find out more.

Benefits specifically for Grafham Water Centre staff:

• 37-hour annualised hours contract. Some evening and weekend work will be required. We also have a range of part time and sessional contracts available to suit your availability.
• Additional payments for on-call duties.
• Subsidised on-site food and accommodation available.
• 25 days paid annual leave pro rota.
• Regular staff training sessions during the season.
• Free access to Centre courses (subject to availability)
• We will provide the opportunities and experience to support your professional development, with individual personal progression plans, a specific mentor, along with funded training and assessment opportunities to gain further qualifications.
• Training/shadowing on activities to help reach NGB standards.
• Free use of Centre facilities and equipment in your own time.
• Reduced price access to Centre activities and courses for your family.

About the role

Are you passionate about outdoor learning and developing people? Do you want to work in a rewarding environment? Join our team to deliver inspiring outdoor learning experiences that enable people to thrive.

We have a variety of contracts available, full time seasonal, part time and relief (freelance).

Our seasonal contracts are from March 2025 until the end of September 2025. We often offer the opportunity for seasonal staff to extend through October, November and occasionally the whole winter dependent on bookings.

We also have a variety of shorter contracts and 0-hour contracts that can work around other commitments to suit you.

Our instructors are responsible for providing high quality outdoor learning experiences to our customers, whilst ensuring the safety of all participants. This will involve delivering a range of land and water-based activities, as well as ensuring all parts of the customer visit run smoothly. You may also be required to be on-call overnight on occasions.

Please see the attached Job Description for further info.

About Grafham Water Centre

Grafham Water Centre is a popular Outdoor Education Centre run by Cambridge County Council based on the shores of Grafham Water reservoir in Perry, Cambridgeshire. We are a lively and busy residential centre catering for a wide range of school and youth groups as well as offering courses for both adults and children. We also cater for corporate and conference bookings. At the heart of all our work is our vision to change people’s lives.

As part of working for GWC you will enable us to support the CCC vision of creating a greener, fairer, and more caring Cambridgeshire.

As an employee you will focus on making our vision a reality. Your work will make a real difference to the lives of people in Cambridgeshire and beyond.

Other information

The closing date for this position is 12th January at midday.

Please ensure that you add your National Governing Body qualifications to the education section of the application form.

We will be holding a selection day on Sunday the 19th of January in person at Grafham please keep this date free. Accommodation will be available on the Friday before.

Successful applicants will be subject to Enhanced DBS (CRB) Check and Medical clearance before employment commences.

For an informal discussion about the position, please contact Rob Kinsella or Will Dowling via email at rob.kinsella@cambridgeshire.gov.uk or William.dowling@cambridgeshire.gov.uk to set up a time to chat.

About you

We are looking for dedicated and motivated individuals who are committed to developing themselves and others. They must be focussed on delivering the best service to our customers – a smile and a sense of humour are a must

We will be looking for the following in our ideal candidate:

• A passion for outdoor learning.
• At least one of the following Instructor qualifications: RYA Dinghy/Windsurf Instructor, PaddleUK Paddlesport Instructor or Paddlesport Leader, Single Pitch Award/Rock Climbing Instructor or Climbing Wall Award/Instructor, Archery GB, MIAS, ERCA Traditional instructor (or equivalent awards from previous schemes).
• Valid First Aid qualification.
• The ability to provide safe, purposeful and fun sessions that meet the needs of our clients.
• Able and confident to communicate well with both adults and children.

Please see the attached Person Specification for further information and explain how you meet the criteria in your application.

About usCambridgeshire is a great place to work and live with a diverse population, an urban centre in Cambridge, historic Isle of Ely, Huntingdon and St Ives as well as more rural landscapes.We are proud to serve the diverse communities of Cambridgeshire and want our workforce to be reflective of this diversity, which we believe benefits our employees, the organisation and our communities. our jobs and careers section to find out more about our wide range of learning and development opportunities; apprenticeships; our wellbeing package; staff benefits; our commitment to equality, diversity and Inclusion.

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