Kids Activity Assistant

Serco; Shrewsbury; On-site; GBP 11,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free gym membership

Employee Assistance Programme

Discounts across retailers

Job summary

Serco Leisure, recruiting on behalf of Shropshire Community Leisure Trust, seeks a Kids Activity Assistant to deliver engaging holiday activities for children. You will help run sports and arts sessions, host birthday parties, and support programme quality with colleagues.

You’ll work on a casual, flexible schedule with significant weekend shifts, ensuring safety and inclusivity while promoting healthy, active lifestyles in the local community.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering holiday scheme activities or similar.
• Excellent verbal and written communication with families.
• Good organisation across multiple activity areas and records.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team, with a flexible approach.

Responsibilities

• Deliver fun and safe sports, arts and crafts activities in line with the holiday scheme programme.
• Facilitating and hosting children's birthday parties, ensuring a fun, safe, and engaging experience for all attendees.
• Support high-quality holiday scheme provision by working closely with colleagues.
• Engage positively with children to create an enjoyable, inclusive and supportive environment.
• Maintain accurate records and documentation in line with site procedures.
• Follow safeguarding practices at all times and comply with policies and procedures.
• Carry out other appropriate duties in line with the nature of the role.

Skills

Holiday scheme delivery

Communication skills

Organisational skills

Teamwork

Flexible attitude

Job description

Location: Shrewsbury Sports Village, Shrewsbury, SY1 1RU

Salary: £8.00 - £12.71 dependent on age, plus excellent benefits

Schedule: Casual contract, flexible to work various shifts to meet the needs of the business, this will include lots of weekend working.

Make a positive difference every day

At Serco, we’re pleased to be recruiting on behalf of Shropshire Community Leisure Trust.

Shropshire Community Leisure Trust encourages active, healthy lifestyles across the local community. Providing affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities in a safe, clean, friendly and welcoming space, their goal is to support healthier and happier lives for everyone. Delivering these services relies on an enthusiastic, customer-focused team, and they’re now looking for a Kids Activity Assistant to join their team and help make a positive difference every day.

As a Kids Activity Assistant, you’ll help create safe, engaging and enjoyable holiday experiences for children and young people across the local community. Through a range of activities, you’ll support children to stay active, build confidence and develop new skills in an inclusive environment. Your work will have a positive impact on communities by helping young people make the most of their school holidays while giving families access to trusted, high-quality leisure services.

What You’ll Do As a Kids Activity Assistant

• Deliver fun and safe sports, arts and crafts activities in line with the holiday scheme programme
• Facilitating and hosting children's birthday parties, ensuring a fun, safe, and engaging experience for all attendees.
• Support high-quality holiday scheme provision by working closely with colleagues
• Engage positively with children to create an enjoyable, inclusive and supportive environment
• Maintain accurate records and documentation in line with site procedures
• Follow safeguarding practices at all times and comply with policies and procedures
• Carry out other appropriate duties in line with the nature of the role

Does this sound like you?

• An understanding of holiday scheme provision and activity delivery
• Strong communication and customer care skills
• Good organisational skills and the ability to manage different activity areas
• The ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• A flexible, adaptable and enthusiastic approach to working with children

What We Offer

• Free gym membership
• Employee Assistance Programme, Wisdom wellbeing app, Personal Trainer discounts
• Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment, travel and gym equipment
• Learn more at www.moreleisure.org/employee-benefits

Vetting And Checks

An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions and any relevant information held by local police, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding requirements. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to allow us to provide any support needed for you to succeed in the role.

Serco Leisure is one of the UK's leading national operators of leisure centres, destination venues and elite sporting facilities, managing sites, services and recruitment on behalf of the Leisure Trust.

Our Inclusive Recruitment Commitment

We prioritise your skills and potential, and champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
• Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).

Please note, for many of our roles, a DBS check will be required.