Peak Season Instructor – Outdoor Education
YMCA Lakeside
Full-Time – 37.5 hours per week
Fixed-Term – 5th May 2025 – 29th August 2025
£23,400 per annum pro-rata
Job Reference – 804LAKE
Subsidised accommodation may be available
Shores of Lake Windermere – Training and Experience – Excellent staff team
Join our team to deliver inspiring outdoor learning programmes and springboard your career.
Working for us means helping children and young people of all levels of ability and backgrounds to fulfil their potential through enjoyable and safe outdoor education programmes. At YMCA Lakeside Outdoor Education Centre, we have lots of young people wanting to come on our courses, especially during May to August, and we need some extra staff members. Our instructors work on a range of outdoor courses, including our famous Summer Day Camp provision. There will be a host of opportunities and experiences to support your professional development, working as part of a like-minded and adventurous team who play an important role in changing young people’s lives.
If you have a minimum of 1 years’ experience with at least one qualification completed and one training undertaken from the list below, with the potential to progress further with the right support, we welcome hearing from you. However, attitude and enthusiasm go a long way, so if you have experience of working with groups in outdoor settings, do get in touch.
• Paddle Sport Instructor
• Rock Climbing Instructor
• RYA Dinghy Instructor with
• Safety Boat • Summer Mountain Leader
• 16 hr First Aid certificate
• Outdoors based Diploma, Certificate or Degree, PGCE, APIOL, Level 3 course / apprenticeship.
The role.
• Providing inspirational, safe, high-quality instruction and outdoor learning sessions
• Assisting the Duty Team to ensure enjoyable, safe and secure residential stays
• Doing all the many other small jobs which make our outdoor education courses so successful
This job is for you if…
• You are passionate about creating great experiences for children and young people in the outdoors
• You are friendly, enthusiastic and hardworking
• You are a resilient and confident team worker who can also work unsupervised using your own initiative
• You have prior experience of working in the Outdoor Education sector
• You are able to work flexibly including some evenings and occasional weekends (by arrangement)
• You are available from 5th May 2025 until 29th August 2025 – this role would particularly suit an outdoor orientated university student who wants quality work across the summer break
Successful applicants will be required to complete an Enhanced DBS Disclosure.
For further information and to complete an application form for the above role, please visit or
Job Reference – 804LAKE
Closing date for the role is Wednesday 5th February 2025 by 9:00am. Applications submitted and/or received after this time will not be considered.