Casual Dryside Leisure Assistant

Contract type: Casual Working hours: As and when required An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) with a Children Barred List check is required for this post. Colchester City Council is committed to delivering high-quality and accessible services to residents, visitors and businesses. They are a local government authority providing a diverserange of public and commercial services across Colchester, the second largest district in Essex. The Council are seeking Casual Dryside Leisure Assistants to work across all our Leisure World Sports facilities. Duties of the role As an essential member of the Leisure World team, you will play a major role as part of our junior holiday programme team, which will involve delivering and supervising sports and fun activities to children during the school holidays. Duties will include setting up and packing away various sports equipment, children weekend birthday parties, cleaning and assisting customers. You will also assist Duty Officers and Camp Supervisors with the day-to-day operational running of the sports facilities and holiday camps. Qualifications and skills required To be successful in this role, you will need knowledge and experience of customer care, worked with adults and children, can work individually or as part of a team, be flexible, enthusiastic and show good initiative. An understanding of health and safety as well as safeguarding and wellbeing will also be an advantage. Knowledge of sports, games and activities as well as sports specific qualifications and first aid at work qualification would also be desirable. What we offer The Council encourages all employees to maximise their potential. You will be entitled to join an attractive pension scheme and will receive a generous annual leave entitlement, including two extra company holidays during the Christmas period. Other benefits include: Flexible working Gym, travel and online retail discounts Excellent training, development and progression opportunities For an informal discussion about this vacancy, please contact Chris Curtis, Sports and Active Wellbeing Manager at Chris.Curtis@colchester.gov.uk . For a copy of the job description, please see here . #J-18808-Ljbffr