Children's Activity Instructor

Job Description

Candidates should take the time to read all the elements of this job advert carefully Please make your application promptly.

GLL is looking for Children’s Activity Instructors to work at various Leisure Centres across Belfast. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Children’s Activity Instructor, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Children’s Activity Instructor job, it's a career.

As a Children’s Activity Instructor, you will be responsible for engaging and inspiring children through various activities, ensuring their safety and enjoyment while fostering their development.

What you’ll do:

• Comply with the commitments outlined in the ‘Customer Charter’, ensuring that standards are maintained as stipulated.
• Ensure that all compliance is followed.
• Follow the legal requirements in line with Ofsted legislation.
• Ensure you follow all relevant administration procedures.
• Ensure that every child is given equality of opportunity and they are all included and supported.
• Ensure care of over 8’s does not adversely affect the care of the under 8’s.
• Keep all areas and equipment checked and cleaned as per the cleaning matrix.
• Deal with, log, and report all safeguarding issues to the Children Activity Supervisor.

What you need:

• Appropriate professional qualifications or experience working with children aged 5 years and above.
• Qualified and trained to a minimum Level 2 in Child Care / Play work or a Level 2 coaching qualification is desirable.
• Good understanding of the characteristics and qualities that guardians expect from a childcare provision.
• Knowledge of Ofsted Legislation.
• Knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation.
• Knowledge of GLL Safeguarding Policies, Procedures, and Code of Conduct on Safer Working Practices.
• Suitable level of experience working with children under 8 or a relevant child care / play work qualification.
• Experience of delivering an enabling environment whilst responding to children’s individual needs.

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!

The basics:

• Flexible positions are available. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service; flexible working may be possible. Working from home is not possible in this role.
• We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry-leading rates of pay.
• We can offer a career, not just a job, with extensive Learning & Development support available.
• A uniform will be supplied and must be worn.
• GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
• As a staff-owned organisation, you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business.

Additionally, GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:

• Access to a pension scheme.
• Health Assurance and access to Counselling services.
• Access to the tax-efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
• Free annual eye tests.

GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:

• The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you.
• Access to team building and fun events such as treks, concerts, outings, etc.
• Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet.

About GLL:

As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer two different types of work arrangements:

• A permanent employment contract - part time and full time.
• A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool.

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7-day-a-week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support, or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects, and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications, under 18s, and location. xwzovoh

This role requires an Enhanced DBS with Children's Barred List.