Leisure Team Member L2 Apprenticeship

Please note the salary range for this position is from £16,960.03 up to £27,351.01

GLL is currently recruiting for a Leisure Team Member Apprentice to work in Abraham Moss Leisure Centre, Manchester, M8 5UF. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Leisure Team Member Apprentice, there's never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than just a Leisure Team Member Apprenticeship; it's a career where you will be given the training to develop your career with the UK's largest leisure provider.

GLL is a not-for-profit charitable social enterprise committed to delivering a better quality of fitness and leisure, libraries, and performing arts facilities for everyone. We're committed to providing access to quality community facilities - and more - at a price everyone can afford. We already manage over 258 facilities, and we're adding more all the time, operating under our 'Better' brand. Unlike many other brands, we are for everyone. Community is at the heart of everything we do, and we want to make sure that everyone can live a healthy and active lifestyle.

What you’ll do:

Customer Experience

* Understand the services and products on offer to assist with customer questions and queries.

* Support different types of customers with different needs.

* Support the centre in gaining customer feedback on our products and services, including dealing with customer complaints.

* Support the centre to deliver swimming lessons where required (qualification dependent).

* Share knowledge with customers on the role exercise plays in health and wellbeing.

* Conduct customers' gym inductions and health screening where required (qualification dependent).

* Plan and deliver exercise sessions to meet customers' health and fitness goals.

People Experience

* Support GLL's visions and values.

* Attend and participate in all apprenticeship workshops, meetings, and reviews with your tutor and General Manager.

* Ensure all training and qualification deadlines are met in agreement with your tutor and manager.

* Achieve and maintain all necessary qualifications, including ongoing CPD training.

* Keep up-to-date with trends and developments in the leisure industry.

As a leader within the leisure industry, we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

You will be enrolled on a Leisure Team Member apprenticeship programme which takes approximately 18 months to complete, as well as completing the following qualifications throughout the length of your apprenticeship:

* National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ)

* Certificate in Teaching Swimming

* Level 2 Gym Instructor

Abraham Moss Leisure Centre

Crescent Road

Crumpsall

Manchester

M8 5UF

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