Childrens Activity Instructor

GLL is looking for Children’s Party Instructors to work at Basingstoke Sports Centre. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Children’s Party Instructor, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Children’s Party Instructor, it's a career.

We believe that children should be active, stimulated and sociable. Working as part of a team, you’ll create a structured, safe and fun environment using the facilities around you. You’ll be confident in leading children through a mix of arts & crafts and sporting activities that can include (dependent on availability) anything from football, swimming (where possible), even bouncy castles. You’ll encourage an environment of respect and friendship amongst the children, especially as they can be from very diverse backgrounds. We also host children’s birthday parties which you’ll play a key role in assisting with. As a Children’s Activity Instructor you would key to ensuring safe and fun parties and activities within the centre.

**What you’ll do**:

- To help run parties over the weekend and make sure the customer has the best experience possible
- To assist in making sure all areas are checked and safe to use.
- Setting up of equipment in play area’s and party food room.
- To help keep all area’s clean and tidy.
- Interact with kids and party parents to be fun/approachable and to have a good time.

As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

**What you need**:

- Experience organising and running children’s activities would be beneficial but full training will be given.
- Be flexible and available to work weekends.
- Fun, enthusiastic and happy to work in a team.
- Flexible availability is essential to this role

**As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees**:

- A Values driven organisation
- Learning & development to support career development
- Good Pension schemes
- Discounted gym membership for you and your partner.
- A flexible working position. 18+ salary up to £12.60 per hour.
- Industry leading rates of pay
- opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events
- Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal
- Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria
- Health assurance
- Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.
- Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)
- 25% off Red Letter Days
- 25% off Buy A Gift
- 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.
- Ride to work scheme
- Free eye tests and discounted glasses

About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer two different types of work arrangements:
A permanent employment contract - part time and full time

A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work, and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.