Sports and Community Lettings Assistant

**Salary**: £24,790 to £25,183

**Grade**:Grade 4; Point 5 - 6 Cheshire East Council NJC Pay Structure

**Start Date**: ASAP

**Contract Type**: 37 hours per week (full time), 52.134 weeks per year (rota system, including evenings and weekends)

**Contract Term**: Permanent

**Closing Date**: Monday 7th July 2025, Midday

**Interview Date**: Thursday 10th July 2025

We are seeking a proactive Sports and Community Lettings Assistant to provide efficient and effective support both to the community lettings business (High Leisure) and the PE Curriculum Team. The post-holder will ensure the effective management of equipment and the setting up and general preparation of sports areas.
- To provide assistance to community facility users and give all users the best possible experience whilst using the facilities.
- To support PE teaching staff through preparing, deploying, maintaining and cleaning sports equipment and facilities to a high standard
- To conduct daily monitoring of all sports areas to ensure that all are properly maintained, clean and ready for use.

We offer a happy and caring environment rooted in our core values, in which staff and students can flourish, whilst challenging ourselves to pursue excellence for all our students. The school is set in extensive grounds, ideally positioned between the thriving city of Manchester and the open countryside of the Peak District.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff to respect this commitment. A consideration of the person’s suitability to work alongside children is part of the selection process.

If invited for interview, you will be:

- asked to complete a self-declaration form answering questions in relation to any criminal record or other information that would make them unsuitable to work with children.
- an enhanced disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service.
- pre-employment checks which will include References, Health and Right to Work in UK

Current or previous employers will be contacted and information requested will include:

- disciplinary offences relating to children, including any for which the penalty is ‘time expired’.

**Job Description - Sports and Community Lettings Assistant**

To whom responsible: Community Lettings Manager

**Purpose of Post**:
Operating within the school’s support staff structure, the post holder will provide safe, efficient and effective support for our community lettings business (High Leisure), and the PE Curriculum Team, the post holder will support the team by ensuring the effective use and care of equipment and the setting up and general preparation of sports areas.

This post provides support for High Leisure functions occurring, including weekends. Flexible working hours are required to ensure the effective and efficient operation of High Leisure, to work on a shift basis in order to cover both curriculum and community facility use. Typically, this is five days out of seven, on a rota basis.

**Principal Duties**

**Under the leadership of the Community Lettings Manager, supervising the safe, effective and efficient management of High Leisure operations including**:

- Undertaking of key administrative functions including maintenance of bookings
- Organisation and care of equipment and general preparation of sports areas
- Management, maintenance and storage of resources and equipment
- Deployment and supervision of staff
- Management and supervision of community users
- Ensuring appropriate safeguarding and health and safety measures are in place and reporting any concerns to the business manager
- Ensuring all areas and equipment are tidied and cleaned to a high standard
- Undertaking minor repairs and maintenance across the site
- To support PE teaching staff through preparing, deploying, maintaining and cleaning sports equipment and facilities to a high standard
- Serving customers using the High Leisure facilities including the hire of equipment and serving refreshments via the catering facilities on site
- To conduct daily monitoring of all sports areas to ensure that all are properly maintained, clean and ready for use.

Where appropriate supporting other curriculum provision occurring at the weekend including sports fixtures and educational visits where appropriate

**Ensuring high standards of safety, security, presentation, hygiene and cleanliness across the school site including**:

- contributing to grounds and facility management where appropriate
- contributing to monitoring of school security systems including CCTV and Paxton locks where appropriate
- Monitoring of areas of curriculum and community provision occurring during the weekend
- Responsibility, when appropriate, for locking and unlocking school premises and ensuring the operating of security alarms.
- Operating within lone worker guidelines where appropriate.

**Notes**

**Health and Safety**

To take all reasonable steps to ensure the Health and Safety of students and sta