Sports Assistant

1 week ago

Edinburgh, United Kingdom University of Edinburgh Full time

**UE02: £20,333.00 - £20,578.00 Per Annum + 5% Premium Band (£1,016.65 - £1,028.90 Per Annum)**

**Corporate Services Group, Sport & Exercise, St. Leonard’s Land Swimming Pool**

**Open Ended Contract - Permanent: Full Time - 35 Hours per Week**

Are you a competent swimmer who currently holds or is looking to acquire an NPLQ (National Pool Lifeguarding Qualification)? Do you have a ‘can-do’ attitude and are you passionate about delivering great service? Then join us in welcoming over 1 million visitors per annum to the University of Edinburgh Sport & Exercise facilities, by helping maintain some of the best sport and fitness facilities in the UK. With wellbeing a key priority for many, the Sport & Exercise team are here to support our members and their training needs in a safe, fun and inclusive sport environment.

A generous offer of professional development opportunities will be provided for those wishing to advance their learning and skills development, as well as on the job training, mentoring and support.

**The Opportunity**:
Working a bi-weekly rotating shift pattern, consisting of early mornings, day shifts, and evenings, you will share responsibility with a team of Sports Assistants for engaging Sport & Exercise members with the sole aim of enhancing their experience.

Your skills and attributes for success:

- Provide safe, inclusive and ‘game-ready’ environment for Sport & Exercise members and guests.
- Deliver ‘best in class’ service.
- Live by our values of being ‘Open to EveryBody’. Believe that ‘Anything is Possible’. Help us by ‘Enabling Excellence’.

Click here for a copy of the full job description

**As a valued member of our team you can expect**:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits **pension scheme **, **staff discounts, **family friendly initiatives **, flexible working and much more. Access our **staff benefits page **for further information and use our **reward calculator **to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.

The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.

**Interviews will likely be held between the 26th and 30th June **. There will also be a swim competency test conducted during this time.

If invited for interview you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our **right to work **webpages.

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