Junior Activities Instructor

Places for People; Ivy Chimneys; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

A community-focused organization in Ivy Chimneys is seeking a Junior Activity Instructor to run engaging activities for children. Candidates should possess a friendly demeanor, ideally have experience with children or customer service, and be enthusiastic. This role offers flexible working hours and various benefits designed to ensure a supportive work environment.

Benefits

Real Living Wage foundation alignment

2% bonus scheme

Full Health & Fitness membership

Flexible working options

Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave

Access to personal learning and development

Company Pension scheme

Cashback plan for healthcare costs

Discounts on activities and cafes

Additional shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Outgoing personality with experience working with children preferred.
• Previous customer service experience is extremely beneficial.
• Flexible attitude to cover parties at short notice.

Responsibilities

• Lead fun and interactive activities for children.
• Develop innovative ideas to maximize customer enjoyment.
• Assist in running dryside courses and parties.

Skills

Working with children

Customer service

Energy and enthusiasm

Job description

Overview

At Places for People, safeguarding is everyone's responsibility. We are committed to creating safe communities for our customers and colleagues by protecting children, young people, and adults at risk from harm, abuse, and neglect. We follow robust safeguarding policies and procedures, ensuring all employees, volunteers, and contractors uphold the highest standards of safeguarding and accountability. Our recruitment process includes pre-employment checks, including Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) checks where applicable, to promote a safe and secure working environment. By joining Places for People, you are expected to contribute to our safeguarding culture, following our policies and reporting concerns to protect those in our communities.

Role overview

It will be your responsibility to help run fun, interactive and memorable activities for children at our centres. Junior Activity Instructors lead dryside courses, parties, holiday activities and sessions and come up with innovative ideas to both maximise use of the centre, and maximise the fun had by our customers.

For more information please download our job profile available on our website.

About you

You will have an outgoing manner and it would be preferable to have experience of working with children; however, experience in a previous role where customer service was your main focus would be extremely beneficial for this role. Party Hosts will need to have buckets of energy and enthusiasm, but most importantly you will need a flexible attitude to work due to the need to cover parties sometimes at short notice.

Benefits

• We align with the Real Living Wage foundation
• A bonus scheme for all colleagues at 2%
• Full Health & Fitness membership for you, a nominated adult and up to 4 juniors
• Flexible working (including part time working, shift work and more)
• An opportunity to purchase additional annual leave
• Lots of opportunity to access ongoing personal learning and development
• Access to our Company Pension scheme
• Cashback plan for healthcare costs - up to £500 saving per year
• Discounts of up to 50% on activities, centre shop and cafes
• Extra perks including huge discounts and offers from shops, cinemas and much more

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Armed Forces - We are proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant. Places for People will guarantee an interview for any candidate who is serving or has formerly served in the Armed Forces, as a reservist, armed forces veteran (including the wounded, injured and sick), cadet instructor and military spouse/partner and who meets the essential criteria for the vacancy. Disability Confident - We are proud to be a member of the Disability Confident scheme certified as Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. This helps us to successfully employ and retain people with disabilities and health conditions. Disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview. The Equality Act 2010 (Disability Discrimination Act 1995 for NI) defines a disabled person as someone who has a physical or mental impairment that has a substantial and long-term negative effect on their ability to do daily activities. Neurodivergent - Neurodiverse individuals have highly valuable skills, and we recognise that a traditional interview process sometimes works against them and doesn't allow them to self-advocate. Neurodiverse applicants who meet the criteria for a vacancy will be guaranteed an interview.