Job Details
Storm Fitness is actively recruiting enthusiastic individuals to supervise a wide range of sports activities for children. This exciting opportunity includes overseeing school holiday sports and hosting sports parties on weekends.
Flexibility and enthusiasm are highly desired qualities in candidates.
Main Purpose of the Role:
To provide a safe, stimulating, and inclusive play environment where children can enjoy a variety of activities that promote learning, social development, and wellbeing. Playleaders will support children in structured and free play, ensuring they are engaged, supported, and encouraged to reach their potential.
Key Responsibilities:
- Supervise and engage children in a wide range of play and recreational activities.
- Create a safe, supportive, and fun environment for children of all ages and abilities.
- Encourage positive behaviour, teamwork, and inclusion during activities.
- Assist in planning and delivering creative play sessions (indoor and outdoor).
- Promote healthy lifestyles, independence, and confidence through play.
- Ensure safeguarding, health and safety, and equality and diversity policies are followed at all times.
- Communicate effectively with parents, carers, and colleagues.
- Support children with additional needs to ensure they are fully included.
About You:
Essential:
- Experience of working or volunteering with children in a play, youth work, childcare, or school setting.
- Friendly, approachable, and able to build positive relationships with children and families.
- Enthusiastic, energetic, and able to encourage participation in activities.
- Good communication and teamwork skills.
- Awareness of safeguarding, child protection, and health and safety.
- Flexibility to work on a casual basis, sometimes at short notice.
Desirable:
- A relevant qualification in Playwork, Childcare, Youth Work, or a related field (Level 2/3).
- First Aid training.
- Experience working with children with additional needs.
- Creative skills (e.g. arts & crafts, music, drama, or sports) to enhance play opportunities.
The Right Candidate:
- Strong organisational skills
- High standards of communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
- A positive, resilient outlook
- Excellent punctuality and reliability
- Motivation and enthusiasm to inspire and engage class participants
Why choose us?
Our strategy is to create a Career Focused, Digital Learning environment, ensuring that the learner experience and our relationship within our community, local and regional employers, are at the heart of everything we do. We are proud to be selected as finalists for the AoC Beacon awards for effective use of digital Technology in FE. Providing a high achieving, focused learning environment allowing our students to achieve the grades they need for higher educations, or the skills and aptitude required to secure a suitable role in their chosen career. Our college is set in the leafy suburbs of Essex, with easy access to surrounding areas and amenities, we are based in a well-connected location both by road and rail.
What we offer:
- A dedicated and friendly team of professionals who are keen to develop and learn
- Excellent pension provision
- Annual Staff Awards
- CPD days - opportunities to grow and development through mentorship and coaching
- Free onsite parking
- Staff appreciation days
- Eye care vouchers
- Onsite Starbucks & Restaurant
- Well-being days & activities
- Electric Vehicle Scheme*
- Discounted gym membership
- Hybrid Working available
- Fully immersive teaching rooms allow simultaneous online teaching at multiple locations
- Free Employee Assistance Programme available 24/7, 365 days offering legal & financial advice, as well as general support & guidance
- subject to terms & conditions
