Recreation Assistant (Lifeguard) – Full Time (39 Hours per Week)
The Sands Centre, Carlisle
GLL is looking for a 39 hour per week Recreation Assistant (Lifeguard) to join our team at The Sands Centre. If you have the skills, enthusiasm and ambition to join us, there has never been a more exciting time to become part of our team.
This is more than a lifeguarding job – it's the start of a rewarding career.
As one of the largest leisure and entertainment venues in Cumbria, The Sands Centre offers a unique working environment where no two days are the same. Alongside our busy leisure facilities, we host a year round programme of concerts, comedy shows, sporting events and community activities, giving our Recreation Assistants the opportunity to experience far more than a traditional leisure centre role.
About the Role
A Recreation Assistant plays a vital role in ensuring our customers have a safe, welcoming and enjoyable experience. While lifeguarding is an important part of the role, you'll also be involved in every aspect of the day-to-day operation of the centre.
If you're calm under pressure, enjoy working with people from all walks of life and take pride in delivering excellent customer service, we'd love to hear from you.
As a Recreation Assistant, your passion for customer service will shine through whether you're supervising the swimming pool, preparing activity spaces, supporting events or helping customers make the most of our fantastic facilities.
What you'll do
- Undertake regular pool supervision and lifeguard rotations.
- Ensure the safety of customers using the swimming pool.
- Maintain high standards of cleanliness throughout the centre.
- Prepare and set up sports halls, studios, gyms and activity spaces for a wide variety of programmes.
- Deliver first class customer service and respond positively to customer enquiries.
- Support the day-to-day operation of one of the region's busiest leisure centres.
- Assist with the set up and operation of concerts, live entertainment, sporting events and community events at The Sands Centre, helping to create memorable experiences for thousands of visitors each year.
- Work closely with colleagues across leisure, events and customer service to ensure the smooth running of the centre.
Develop Your Career
At GLL we believe in developing our people and providing genuine career opportunities.
As a Recreation Assistant you'll have the opportunity to gain additional qualifications and develop into specialist roles, including:
- Swimming Instructor
- Multi Sports Coach
- Gymnastics Coach
- Fitness Instructor
- Duty Manager
- Management and Leadership roles across GLL
Whether your ambition is to teach, coach, manage facilities or work within events, we'll support you through industry leading learning and development opportunities to help you achieve your goals.
What you need:
- A can-do attitude
- A real focus on customer service.
- Passion and personality
- Knowledge of health and safety
- Be a great team player
- Ideally, you'll have your National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ) with up to date NPLQ training records and if not the NPLQ training can be provided subject to passing a swim test.
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:
This is a Full-time permanent position. 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
- Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!
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 and location.
