(089128) Leisure Attendant

**Job Title: Leisure Attendant - Craven Leisure Centre**

**Salary**:Grade: C/D, £22,737 - £23,893 per annum**

**Vacancy Hours: 37 Hours**

**Contract Type: Full Time Permanent**

**Weekend Working: Yes**

**Closing Date: 25.08.2023**

**Interview Date: TBC**

**Venue for Interview: Craven Leisure / Belle Vue Square**

Are you a motivated and enthusiastic individual seeking
a varied and exciting new role? Do you have the ability to communicate and work
well within a team? and are you alert to the safety of yourself and people
around you? If the answer is yes, we want to hear from you

We are currently seeking Leisure Attendants at Craven
Leisure Centre.

**Role summary**

As a Leisure Attendant you will work within North Yorkshire Council’s Leisure Services team to provide support, enhance and deliver ‘day to day’ operations of the leisure centre. You will high quality customer service ensuring their safety and satisfaction through lifeguarding, cleaning and other associated tasks in accordance with leisure centre operational procedures.

**Duties & Responsibilities**:
- Ensure safe and
effective lifeguard practice and undertake essential regular training in
line with lifeguard qualification standards and organisational protocols.

- Follow leisure
centre safe operating procedures and controlling the safety of all
customers within the centre, including the swimming pool and surrounding
areas through effective supervision and monitoring.

- Safely prepare
activity areas for use including, equipment set up, dismantling and
storage in accordance with centre operating procedures and activity
programmes.

- Undertake routine
maintenance and housekeeping of the facility and its equipment as part of
the centres programmed tasks, inspection schedules and defect reporting
protocols.

- Ensure high
standards of cleanliness in accordance with the leisure centres cleaning
protocols and safe use of cleaning chemicals. This will include
responsibilities for showers, toilets, changing areas, floors, drains and
equipment.

- Carry out routine
checks of environmental conditions (e.g. water temperature and chemical
tests) in accordance with agreed protocols and report test readings that
are outside set parameters to leisure centre management.

- Work with mínimal
supervision within professional boundaries to ensure that daily tasks are
undertaken in accordance with the leisure centre programme.

- Be responsible as
an individual and as part of a team, in providing safe and enjoyable
activities, events, services and environments.

- To wear staff
issued uniform and always ensure professional personal appearance whilst
on duty.

- To undertake any
appropriate and relevant tasks and responsibilities as detailed in leisure
centre operating procedures, advised by leisure centre management.

**What you will bring**

Experience /
Qualifications:

- Awareness

of safeguarding children and vulnerable adults.

- Good
understanding of customer care and working with customers/general public.
- Working

in an environment where there may be conflicting priorities and demands.
- Ability to work effectively within a team.
- Ability

to use own initiative.
- Be

able to give clear, accurate, and assertive instructions verbally and through

the correct use of signals to customers and other members of the team.
- Ability

to solve routine problems as they arise and suggest ideas to improve service

provision.
- Be able to sustain

basic fitness and competence in order to meet the demands of undertaking an

NPLQ course and regular training.
- Ability

to demonstrate high levels of customer service at all times.

**What we can offer**

You will have
the opportunity to develop both knowledge and skills and various benefits are
available such as generous annual leave entitlement, excellent pension scheme,
salary sacrifice car, cycle, technology and childcare schemes and a package of
‘Everybody Benefits’ shopping vouchers, discounts and more. Please see our
total rewards brochure for more information.

**Key Documents**:
**Job Description**:
Total Rewards Brochure

**Contact and Apply**

from your CV and upload by midnight on Friday 25th August 2023.

**Key Dates**:
**Closing Date: Friday 25th August 2023
**Shortlisting: Tuesday 29th August 2023**

**Interviews: TBC**

Enhanced Level DBS Disclosure is required for appointment to this post.

We are committed to meeting the needs of our diverse community and aim to have a workforce reflecting this diversity. We are also committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and adults. We expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

North Yorkshire Council (NYC) advertise vacancies on behalf of schools and external organisations (third parties) in North Yorkshire. NYC are not responsible for the recruitment/employment practices of third parties and accept no liability in relation to the vacancy and any subsequent recruitment/employment processes. En