0.5 Sports Facility Assistant

New College Durham; Framwellgate Moor; Hybrid; GBP 20,000 - 25,000; Part time

Job summary

A renowned educational institution in the UK seeks a Sports Facility Assistant to support facility management and ensure a safe environment for sports users. The role requires evening and weekend availability and involves delivering inductions and advising clients on fitness. Candidates should be committed to safeguarding and promoting welfare and be able to maintain equipment. This position offers a hybrid working model and various employee benefits including generous leave and training opportunities.

Benefits

Hybrid working for work/life balance

Family friendly policies

Generous annual leave package

Training and professional development

Free car parking

Reduced gym and beauty treatment prices

Qualifications

• Experience in sports facility management or similar role.
• Ability to deliver gym and pitch inductions.
• Commitment to safeguarding and promoting welfare.

Responsibilities

• Support the Sports Facilities Manager in facility performance.
• Deliver gym and 3G pitch inductions.
• Ensure safety for all users of the facilities.

Skills

Fitness and wellbeing advice

Safety supervision

Equipment maintenance

Job description

If you are looking to further your career at a groundbreaking and award-winning College, we’d love to hear from you!

New College Durham are seeking to recruit a Sports Facility Assistant. The role will involve supporting the Sport Facilities Manager with the performance of the Sports Complex facilities. To ensure a safe and appropriate environment for all sport and gym users and members and to work with Sports Facilities Manager in relation to sports facilities and Community organisations. Assistants will deliver gym and 3G pitch inductions to clients, providing fitness and wellbeing advice and ensuring users safety across all facilities. Also to keep the Sports Facilities Manager, Curriculum Manager and Head of School informed of relevant developments in the industry and to supervise the maintenance of all equipment and ensure its optimum use.

The role involves evening and weekend work and will be a 0.5 FTE role to cover the evening and weekend shifts required for the facilities.

Support and Benefits

• Hybrid working for greater work/life balance
• Family friendly policies including Flexible Working, Maternity, Adoption, Shared Parental Leave, Special Leave, and Remote Working
• Generous annual leave package and option to purchase additional annual leave
• Training, support and the opportunity to develop your professional skills, including three full days each year exclusively to staff development
• Free car parking
• Reduced price for gym and beauty treatments
• Staff who are new to teaching in FE may be eligible for the Levelling up premium payment for FE teachers here at New College Durham; please check GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) for more details.

About us

New College Durham is a great place to work. It is a high performing and financially outstanding college. We are continually investing in new facilities and resources to benefit our students, such as our new development, T.H.E HUB.

New College Durham is one of the leading Further Education colleges in the North East and continues to be at the forefront of new initiatives, being one of the few colleges in the North East to offer all the new T-Level programmes.

We focus on providing training and education that creates the best outcomes for our students, giving them the edge in their chosen industry.

New College Durham is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people, as well as vulnerable adults, we expect all staff and volunteers to be suitable to work with these groups and share this commitment.

We are committed to being a fully inclusive and diverse community. Applications are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates. We particularly encourage applications from under-represented groups.

Recognitions

• Disability Confident Status
• Mindful Employer
• Dying to Work
• Better Health at Work – maintaining excellence

New College Durham have further signed up to the AOC Mental Health and Wellbeing charter, as well as the AOC EDI Charter. We pride ourselves on our dedication to safeguarding all students; to do so we follow a strict vetting process whereby any offer of employment will be subject to the appropriate checks.

Before applying for a role with New College Durham it is important to note that it is an offence to do so if you believe you are a persons whom is barred from engaging in regulated activity relevant to children.

To read more information in relation to the DBS Code of Practice please see below; DBS code of practice - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Please note that Curriculum Vitaes (CVs) will not be accepted.