Leicestershire County Council
Work Location: Beaumanor Activities, Beaumanor Hall, Woodhouse, Loughborough, LE12 8TX
Worker Category: Fixed Location
Salary: £24,708 per annum (pro-rata for part-time)
Working Hours: Usual hours are 08:30-16:30, these may be extended from time to time.
Contract Type: Casual
Closing Date: 20th December 2024
Interview Date(s): TBC
Are you enthusiastic about outdoor activities and have a spirit of adventure? Are you interested in starting an exciting and rewarding career teaching and sharing your passion with others? If so, you may be the person we are looking for.
About the Role
Beaumanor Activities offer exciting outdoor educational programmes on a day visit and residential basis. Activities include canoeing, climbing, high ropes, archery, orienteering, bushcraft, and team building.
ensure that health and safety requirements are adhered to during activities and to maintain, improve and report on curriculum resources. Occasional evening and weekend working will be required.
An enhanced DBS check is required for this post.
For information on our approach to the recruitment of ex-offenders, please see our .
About You
To apply for this post, you must:
1. Have relevant experience of instructing/teaching and working with young people.
2. Have an interest in learning outside of the classroom.
3. Be able to build effective relationships with others and have a desire to achieve excellent customer service and satisfaction.
4. Have excellent time management skills.
5. Be able to work as part of a team as well as on your own initiative.
6. Be able to display a professional attitude and the ability to remain calm and rational under pressure.
You must also have an understanding of, and commitment to, equal opportunities, and the ability to apply this to all situations.
In addition, we expect you to share and will ask you to evidence when you have demonstrated them as part of the interview process.
Reasonable adjustments will be considered for applicants with a disability.
We are keen to support employees to balance their working life with other commitments. Therefore, wherever possible, we will consider working arrangements that suit an individual’s personal circumstances whilst still meeting the needs of the Council. If you would like to discuss the possible flexible working options that might be applicable to this role, please contact the person named below. This may include requests for term-time working, part-time hours, compressed hours, flexible start and finish times, home/remote working, etc.
Every role within the Council has a defined working style which determines where they can work. The worker category applicable to this post is detailed in the above advert. You can find out more about our worker categories in the page on our career site.
For more information or an informal discussion, please contact:
Jonathan Heather - Centre Operations Manager
Telephone: 01509 890119 option 1
Email:
How to Apply
Leicestershire County Council is an inclusive organisation which is on a journey to embed and celebrate equality, diversity, and inclusion at every level. We warmly welcome and encourage applications from people of all backgrounds, as having a diverse workforce with different perspectives and ideas is fundamental to our values and enriches the services, we offer our communities. We particularly welcome applicants from Ethnically Diverse and LGBTQ+ communities and people with disabilities to create a balanced workforce and one that reflects the communities we serve. Applicants with a disability who meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above will be offered an interview under the Disability Confident Employer Scheme.
To apply for this job, please click on the ‘Apply Now’ button below. You will need to upload a supporting statement as part of your application which explains how you meet the criteria listed in the ‘About You’ section above. For more information, see the section on our career site.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.
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