Job Ref: GLE3309
Branch: The Gleneagles Hotel
Location: The Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder
Salary/Benefits: £15.96 per hour
Contract type: Temporary/Seasonal
Hours: Full Time
Hours per week: 39
Posted date: 25/05/2026
Closing date: 27/06/2026
COME AND JOIN US . . .
We are currently seeking a flexible, versatile and enthusiastic Activity Instructor to join our Trail Yard team to work full time over our busy summer season. You will be working 39hrs per week from June 22nd to 6th September inclusive; we'd also love to discuss options to remain part of the team on a flexible basis after the summer holidays. As well as our full-time fixed-term opportunity, we're also very happy to consider those looking for part time flexible hours to join the team on a longer term basis!
The on target earning potential for this role is £15.96 / per hour - comprising a base hourly rate of £13.46, plus a qualified estimate of £2.50 per hour in gratuities and service charge. As a member of the Gleneagles team, you will also enjoy a fantastic range of perks, benefits and rewards.
ABOUT GLENEAGLES
One of the world’s most iconic luxury hotels and sporting retreats, Gleneagles has been making memories for a century. Crowned ‘Employer of the Year’ at the 2024 Cateys and Number One Resort in the UK Ireland by readers of the Travel + Leisure for their 2025 World’s Best Awards, everything we do is about surpassing expectations and creating unrivalled adventures for our guests.
WORKING AT GLENEAGLES
We’re devoted to making our people feel as valued as our guests. In this way, we strive to support the whole ‘you’ – not just the professional part but the personal part too. People join our team for all sorts of reasons. Some work here permanently to develop a career, some work seasonally, while others have a schedule to fit around their personal commitments. However long you plan to stay with us and whatever hours you’d prefer to work, we’re open to flexible working requests and offer hours, shift patterns and contract types to suit everyone.
Location; Auchterarder, just off the A9. Gleneagles is also within easy reach of a number of Scottish towns and cities: Edinburgh City Centre (1hr), Glasgow or Dundee (50mins), Stirling and Perth (25mins).
Here's a bit more detail on what we see you doing in this role:
- You’ll be leading a wide range of outdoor activities with our guests, ensuring they have an experience they’ll want to share, never forget and hope to repeat
- Working closely with the Activities Manager, you’ll create and develop new activities, including the development and launch of our brand new paddle sports scheme
- Providing bike hire and carrying out bike maintenance
- Looking after groups of young people as part of our Gleneagles summer holiday program, making sure they have great fun and safe at all times
- You’ll be actively involved in our general yard upkeep, equipment maintenance and inspection, making sure this is all accurately recorded
- Driving our company vehicles to and from activities across our sprawling 850 acre estate
- Participating in Gleneagles and external training courses which are required for our activities and key to your professional development
- Interacting with our guests, always warm, professional, helpful and doing everything you can to exceed their expectations; playing your part in making their stay with us luxurious in every way
The kind of person we're looking for:
- A Paddle Sport Instructor Award (to run our canoe and Kayak sessions) is highly desirable
- Ideally, you have experience of working in the great outdoors with groups of varying sizes; this however isn’t essential as we can fully support you with this.
- Basic outdoor qualifications within climbing, walking land based activities would be great however again, this isn’t essential, the key factor is you love to work with people and outside, in all weathers
- You understand and can implement all relevant safety policies and ensure the appropriate standards are met at all times, minimising risk while we work in the outdoor environment
- You’re able to quickly build relationships with people and as such deliver a wonderful and bespoke experiences for our guests
- Adaptable to working in our ever-changing outdoor conditions, you ensure that all guests are kept motivated, comfortable and safe
- Highly motivated and possessing an immense sense of pride in your work; you're passionate about delivering the high standards for our guests in line with the Gleneagles brand
- You have a positive “can do” attitude to solving problems in a professional and courteous manner
- A strong team player with great communication skills and an enthusiastic approach; you're well organised and punctual
- You want to be part of a team that works hard, supports each other and above all has fun along the way
What’s in it for you:
Time to let your hair down
- 30 days holiday (including bank holidays) that increases with service
- Seasonal parties and local social events
- 50% discount on Food Beverage, Country Pursuits, Spa and Hair Salon (Mon-Thurs) and the Golf Driving Range
- Golf Membership (with access to all 3 championship courses) for £50.00 per annum
Treats in your pocket
- Flexi points into your Perkbox wallet to spend as you choose. The points can be spent immediately, or you can save them up over a number of months, for perks that cost that little bit more. All this gives you greater choice, so you can pick the things that mean the most to you!
- Free ‘pay day’ lunch and monthly drinks offers
- A generous ‘refer a friend’ scheme
Be our guest
- Stay with us as a guest at Gleneagles or Gleneagles Townhouse for up to 2 nights per year at £95.00 per night – a benefit available upon completion of 12 months service
- Friends Family discounted rate of £225 - £275 BB per night at Gleneagles
- Enjoy discounted rooms and restaurants rates with up to 50% off across the wider Ennismore brands and hotels, located across some spectacular locations, including London, Paris, Rome, Dubai, Doha, Rio, NY, Chicago and LA...to name just a few
Investment in your development and wellbeing
- Pension scheme
- Life Insurance
- Employee Assistance Programme, offering support and confidential advice for you and your family when you need it most
- Ongoing investment in your personal development with access to internal and external training qualifications and programmes
- Internal career opportunities across a wider range of specialisms and departments
- Monthly recognition programme
- Volunteering day every year with a charitable partner of your choice
- Complimentary access to our staff gym
- Gleneagles Cycle Scheme to spread the cost of the bike that you really want and reduce your carbon footprint
- About gratuities service charge:
- Gratuities (tips) and service charge (an additional charge added to our room rates and services across the hotel that is passed directly to our employees) are paid on a pro-rata basis regardless of your role
- It is estimated that in 2026, our part-time employees can expect to receive around £2.50 in addition to their hourly rate
If you are our next Activity Instructor, please forward your most recent CV to us today!
INDMP
Pay: £15.96 per hour
Work Location: In person
