Sports Assistant (including lifeguard duties)
Are you a sports enthusiast with ambition and want to be involved with all levels of sport?
Join our hardworking team of over 100 staff providing activities, services and facilities for students, university staff, the local community and high-performance athletes. We will support you with all the training you need to thrive in this dynamic environment.
Here at Team Bath we challenge ourselves to be recognised as a leading centre for creating impact through sport and activity by maximising our unique environment every day for every customer – including supporting athletes going to the Summer and Winter Olympics. We aspire to create a world leading multi-sport environment based in our inspiring Sports Training Village, supporting all ages and all abilities to achieve their personal goals.
About the role
As a Sports Assistant some of the duties you will be involved in are:
- setting up indoor and outdoor activities and events.
- lifeguarding
- operation and maintenance of the sports facilities and associated areas
- security, cleanliness, health & safety and emergency procedures.
To be successful in this role you will need to hold a lifeguarding qualification (or be in the process of obtaining one prior to starting in this role) and have good interpersonal skills.
What we can offer you:
In return for your commitment we offer a range of benefits and you will be able to take advantage of discounted access to all the facilities at the Sports Training Village. We also offer a competitive rate of pay, a great pension scheme, tax and national insurance savings through salary exchange schemes (on nursery care, childcare vouchers, cycle-to-work and fitness schemes) and up to 25 days annual leave per year.
The post will involve early morning, evening and weekend shift work, and will require a basic DBS check.
Our campus is surrounded by beautiful countryside, and the City of Bath with its historic charm and social activity only a short distance away creates an excellent environment in which to work.
We are:
- a family friendly workplace
- open to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit you and the University.
- recognising of the talents of our diverse workforce through an excellent reward package
- encouraging of your personal and professional development
Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.
We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds leads to a better environment for our employees and students, creating a learning environment and organisational culture that enhances health and wellbeing across our community. We are very proud to have recently received Ambassadors for Autism certification and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.
Further details:
We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.