At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain elite training facilities for top athletes and ensure a clean, safe environment.
- Company: Join Serco, a leader in delivering essential public services with a focus on community impact.
- Benefits: Enjoy flexible hours, competitive salary, gym membership, and discounts on various services.
- Other info: Inclusive workplace with opportunities for growth and a commitment to diversity.
- Why this job: Be part of a team that supports athletes in achieving their dreams while making a difference.
- Qualifications: Experience in caretaking or cleaning, strong attention to detail, and good communication skills.
The predicted salary is between 6672 - 10600 £ per year.
Location: Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 9AT.
Salary: 6,672 - 10,600.14 per annum plus excellent benefits
Schedule: Part time 16 hours per week, flexible to work different shifts including earlies, lates, weekends and bank holidays.
Ready to impact a better future? As an Elite Sport Caretaker in our Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, you'll help create and maintain a world-class training environment for elite athletes at one of the UK's leading National Sports Centres. Your work will ensure training facilities remain clean, safe, well-presented and ready for use, supporting athletes as they strive to achieve their goals.
At Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, our work touches lives at every level of sport - from emerging talent to Olympic athletes. By maintaining exceptional standards across the British Gymnastics and GB Archery facilities, you'll play an important role in supporting high-performance sport while helping us deliver a positive impact on athletes, visitors and the wider sporting community.
What you'll do as an Elite Sport Caretaker:
- Maintain elite training facilities to exceptional cleaning and presentation standards at all times
- Ensure facilities are safe, prepared and fully operational for athletes, coaches and visitors
- Carry out routine maintenance, equipment checks and general upkeep activities
- Follow reporting procedures to identify and escalate maintenance, safety or facility issues
- Build positive working relationships with athletes, coaches, governing body representatives and colleagues
- Support the delivery of a world-class environment that enables high-performance sporting achievement
Does this sound like you?
- Experience in a cleaning, caretaking, facilities or similar operational role, or the ability to demonstrate relevant capability
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining high standards
- Good communication and customer care skills
- Awareness of health and safety responsibilities within a busy environment
- Ability to use initiative, complete records accurately and work independently when required
- A genuine interest in being part of a high-performance sporting environment and contributing to positive outcomes
What we offer:
- Holidays: 20 days, 21 days after 1 years' service + bank hols
- Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Free Gym membership
- Staff meal, physio discounts
- Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment, online shopping, mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships.
- Interesting, varied, and enjoyable work
- A company that recognises your contribution
Let's impact a better future, together. Apply today.
A little bit about us: At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure and Citizen Services, we're united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.
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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.
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