Sport Assistant

Job description

ABOUT THE ROLE

Northumbria Sport are recruiting a Sport Assistant who will be responsible for daily operation of the building, supervision of the pool environment and perform a variety of customer facing roles within Sport Central. Sport Central is a multi-purpose built sports facility and events arena that is located in the heart of Northumbria University City Campus. The Sport Assistant is responsible for the daily operation of sports facilities responsible for delivering a welcoming, safe and outstanding experience for our customers. The Sport Assistant is a leading customer-facing role and will be required to undertake direct customer-facing services and operational roles as and when required. The Sport assistant will have a good knowledge within the pool environment and hold an RLSS NPLQ qualification or is willing to work towards the qualification.

Further information is available in the job description .

ABOUT THE TEAM

Reporting directly to the Duty Manager the role will join Northumbria Sport, a core department within Campus Services. Northumbria Sport is responsible for delivering an excellent student experience through our range of sport, fitness and well being programmes.

The role will be based at Sport Central.

Within Campus Services we deliver a range of services. For more information, please visit our web pages: https://www.northumbria.ac.uk/about-us/campus-services/

ABOUT YOU

To be successful in the role you will have:

• RLSS National Pool Lifeguard Qualification, or willing to work towards the qualification.
• Experience within the pool operation and wet environment.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Good understanding of what represents best practice in health and safety, security and other facility operational areas.
• Ability to work on own or part of a team.
• The initiative to solve problems in a practical nature.
• Outstanding Customer service skills.

Further information is available in the person specification .

If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact [email protected].

To apply for this vacancy please click 'Apply Now'. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.

ABOUT US

At Northumbria, we embrace tomorrow. We pursue new thinking, forge new partnerships, create, and exchange new knowledge, and find new solutions. Our inspirational academics, partners and students work together to tackle tomorrow's challenges head on. We are ready for the future whatever it may hold.

Awarded the title of University of the Year in the 2022 Times Higher Education Awards, Northumbria University is a research-intensive modern university with a global reputation for academic excellence.

Northumbria recorded the biggest rise of any UK university for research power in the Research Excellence Framework for the second time in 2021 and is now ranked top 25 for this measure.

One of the largest universities in the UK with over 37,000 students from 137 countries, filled with world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and students at the heart of an outstanding experience, Northumbria is a new kind of excellent university. Discover more about us .

Northumbria University is a great place to work. We empower our exceptional people to achieve shared ambitions and promote a positive work life balance. We offer a wide range of benefits including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, a generous holiday entitlement, continued commitment to your learning and development and more .

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Our Behaviours describe how we do things and how we work together at Northumbria, reflecting our culture and our decision-making. Our Behaviours are: We listen and learn, we support one another to success, we respect everyone and their contributions, we trust in ourselves and each other and we are bold.

Our Behaviours were co-created by colleagues from a range of roles across the University, who worked collaboratively to consider what it feels like to work for Northumbria, and where we need to continue to transform together to achieve what's important to us.

Please visit Our Values and Behaviours page to find out more.

We are an on-campus organisation where colleagues work regular patterns of hours and on campus, with some flexibility on the timing of their hours and the location of their work in discussion with their manager. Our campus locations include City Campus Newcastle and Coach Lane Campus Newcastle.

Northumbria University is committed to creating an inclusive culture where we take pride in, and value, the diversity of our staff. We encourage and welcome applications from all members of the community. The University holds a bronze Athena Swan award in recognition of our commitment to advancing gender equality, we are a Disability Confident Leader, a member of the Race Equality Charter and are participating in the Stonewall Diversity Champion Programme.

The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.

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