Ghyll Head

**Outdoor Activities Instructor (Flexible worker)**

**Based**: Ghyll Head Outdoor Education and Activity Centre, Windermere, Cumbria.

**Salary**:£16.55 per hour (18.55 including A/L)

Ghyll Head Outdoor Education and Activity Centre is seeking to recruit freelance outdoor instructors to deliver high quality outdoor activity experiences for our schools and youth groups, most of whom come from the city of Manchester.

We have undergone a re development and growth over the last 18 months and looking to increase our freelance team.

We are based on the shores of Windermere, South Lakes and are looking for highly experienced and qualified instructors that can work with young people across a range of activities and in a dynamic environment in; canoe, raft canoes, kayak, SUP, sailing, caving, abseil, ghyll scrambling, ideally knowledge of Humphrey Head, Cathedral quarry, and the local ghylls and fells. We have a small permanent team and we work year
- round, 7 days a week program. We deliver DofE expeditions and residential Golds, from our pod campsite within our grounds.

Our main focus here is to provide inclusive and fulfilling experiences that challenge and help explore potential; where young people learn about themselves, each other and the environment and come away with positive, life long memories and hopefully a desire to venture into the outdoors again.

**Minimum qualifications
- all of the below;**
- Mountain Leader Summer
- Rock Climbing Instructor (RCI or equivalent)
- Power boat L2
- Level 1 Coach or Paddlesport leader
- 2 days first aid qualification
- D1 driving license (Allowing minibus driving)

**Desirable;**
- Local cave leader level 1
- DofE supervisor/assessor
- RYA dinghy instructor
- BC moderate water endorsed or equivalent

**Please do get in touch if you have the following experience;**

Minimum 3 years working in the industry

Have experience working in an outdoor education centre or setting

Worked with young people from schools or youth service and worked with groups from diverse backgrounds

Worked with groups with disabilities in the outdoors

**In return**, we offer a range of benefits that you’d expect from the UK’s largest leisure provider:

- Pension schemes
- Ride to work scheme
- Discounted membership at our leisure centres
- The opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we’re run plus associated social events
- Career pathways
- Ongoing training and development to help you to be the best

Applications will be looked at up until May 1st 2023
- To be shortlisted for the role, internal applicants will need to demonstrate their commitment to GLL by becoming a Society member where eligible._

**About Us**

GLL is the UK’s largest leisure and cultural services provider and one of the first and largest leisure social enterprises. Our aim is to get more people, more active, more of the time whilst making leisure and community facilities accessible and affordable. We partner with local authorities to run leisure centres, swimming pools, libraries, children’s centres, spas, events spaces and world-class sporting venues such as the Copper Box Arena and London Aquatics Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - all under our Better brand. As a not-for-profit organisation, we’re different. Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are an Investors in People Silver Award employer.
- GLL is an equal opportunities employer._