Outdoor Education Leader

Salary: £32,061 to
£32,597 per annum
Hours: 14.5 hours per week, pro rata
Location: Hawse End Centre, Portinscale, Keswick
Contract: Permanent
About This Opportunity
Are you ready to join us in delivering high-quality learning through outdoor, adventurous, and educational activities? You will lead engaging programmes tailored to diverse ages and abilities, ensuring safety, promoting personal and social development, and creating memorable

experiences for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Deliver scheduled outdoor and educational activities to meet client aims and quality standards.
• Ensure health, safety, and legislative compliance through risk assessment and management.
• Build positive relationships with participants and group leaders to support personal development.
• Maintain and manage equipment and resources to agreed standards.
• Contribute to service improvement, new product development, and customer engagement.
• Communicate effectively with colleagues and assist with contingency planning when needed.

This role is available on a permanent basis.

Who We're Looking For
We're looking for individuals who embody our organisation's core values: ambitious, collaborative, compassionate, empowering, and innovative. We believe in the power of these values to drive positive change, deliver excellent public services and shape a better future for our communities.

We're also about potential over perfection and we can help you grow in the role and thrive in your career.

Be sure to take a look at the post specification (below) for the essential criteria for this role.

Contact
For more information about the role or to arrange an informal chat prior to your application, please contact Gavin Smallbone by email at

DBS Checks
This role requires a DBS check. The level of check for this role is:

Enhanced DBS check with a Children's Barred List check.

Please note this role involves working in regulated activity with Children. It is an offence for people who are barred from working in regulated activity to apply for roles that require them to work unsupervised with Children.
Guaranteed Interviews
We offer a guaranteed interview to the following applicants
as long as your application can demonstrate you meet the essential criteria for the role.

• Those who consider themselves disabled as defined by the Equality Act 2010
• Those in care or who have left care and are aged 24 and under
• Those who identify as a member of the British Armed Forces community (service leavers, veterans, their partners or spouses, reservists, cadets).

If you meet one or more of the criteria above, and wish to be considered for this scheme, select 'yes' to the appropriate question during your application. Find out more.

Diversity, Inclusion & Adjustments
We're dedicated to enhancing the diversity of our workforce and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds. That's why we're a proud Disability Confident Leader and also an Age Friendly Employer – to provide opportunities for everyone to thrive.

If you need any reasonable adjustments
to participate in the recruitment process, please let either the hiring manager or our Resourcing Team know by emailing

. While adjustments aren't always guaranteed, we'll always listen, and we'll try our best to accommodate your needs.

Application and Interview information

• Closing date: 09/01/2026
• Interview date:20/01/2026

Please note this role may close early subject to demand. If you're interested in applying, you should apply well before the advised closing date. We cannot accept applications once the role has closed.
Please Read The Supporting Information

• Post Specification

Please also refer to our Careers site to find out more:

• Our Staff Benefits
• Candidate Support
• About Cumberland Council