Sports Course Helper

Places Leisure Group; Burgess Hill; On-site; GBP 12,000 - 18,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus scheme

Health & Fitness membership for you +

Flexible working

Additional annual leave

Personal learning & development

Company Pension

Cashback on healthcare

Discounts on activities & shops

Extra perks & discounts

Job summary

Places Leisure Group is seeking a proactive Sports Course Helper to support our sports courses across wet and dry settings. You will assist the teacher, help with registration, and support equipment and teaching practices to ensure a high-quality learning experience for participants.

Ideal candidates are energetic, team-oriented, and able to share personal sports experiences to motivate participants while adhering to safeguarding policies and health & safety guidelines.

Qualifications

• Energetic person who is willing to help people achieve their best.
• You may have experience in practising sports to share experiences with participants.

Responsibilities

• Assist the teacher and coach in lesson delivery.
• Register participants and support classroom activities.
• Help with equipment and teaching practices.
• Support quality delivery of sports courses both wet (pool) and dry.

Skills

Customer service

Team player

Sports knowledge

Job description

We are Places for People Group, we'r e a social enterprise that believes it's people that make a community. That's why we build homes and deliver services for everyone in the community to thrive. At Places Leisure we are changing lives by creating active places and healthy people for communities to thrive, and we want to be the UK's leading health and wellbeing enabler.

We aren't your typical company. We apply the same philosophy to our People as we do to our communities, ensuring our team is appreciated and supported. At Places for People, you're more than just a number - you're part of our cause.

More About Your Role

In this role you will be supporting the delivery of our Sports courses both wet (pool) and dry. We pride ourselves in our quality lessons and courses and the Sports Course Helper role is a fundamental part of delivering the best to our customers. You will be helping the teacher in their delivery from registration of participants to helping with equipment and teaching practices.

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

More About You

You will be an energetic person who is willing to help people achieve their best. You may have experience in practising sports yourself so can share your experiences with participants whilst you support the teacher and coach in the lesson and course criteria.

The Benefits

We are a large, diverse and ambitious business, which will give you all the challenge you could wish for.

Benefits

We know that there's always more we can do to make you smile, that's why we offer a comprehensive benefits package with each role, yours will include:

• 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.

Being a 7 day a week business, with opening hours from dawn til dusk, Places Leisure offers flexible working patterns including shift work, job share and part time working. More than 80% of colleagues at Places Leisure actually work part time.

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.