Leisure Assistant

Do you want to join our teams to help deliver amazing customer service in our venues ?

At Sheffield City Trust we are focused on providing safe and inclusive leisure services with fantastic customer service to match our world class facilities and our Leisure Assistant role is key in helping us achieve that goal on a daily basis.

Essentially a Lifeguard role in our pool venues, they ensure effective monitoring and supervision of swimmers of all ages and abilities from early learners to experienced and club swimmers.

Our leisure venues also host an amazingly diverse programme of events from UK and World Championships in swimming, diving, judo, athletics and snooker, and more to large conferences, dinner dances and weddings to regular community events held by local groups in and around our city. By supporting venues with events set up and set down, Leisure Assistants play a vital role in ensuring each and every event is delivered to the same high standards, regardless of the size and scale.

For the role we require the National Pool Lifeguard Qualification 

We offer the training commercially in our venues. For more information on the qualification or to make an enquiry about accessing the qualification click more information below.

A First Aid Qualification is also desirable although not essential for the role.

We provide regular staff training once in post and, as with all our people, Leisure Assistants receive free access to our amazing range of sport and leisure facilities and also the other great staff benefits we offer, generous employer contributed pension scheme, discounted food and drink and access to great social activities.

We have live vacancies for Leisure Assistants roles on different types  of contracts in our venues on a regular basis. For a list of all currently available roles please see our current vacancies.  

However, if you would like to submit a speculative application for our Leisure Assistant role and be part of our amazing teams then we’d love to hear from you.

Please submit a CV and covering letter explaining the role you are interested in and why to recruitment@sheffieldcitytrust.org and we will be in touch with you accordingly when the next suitable vacancy becomes available. Please title your email Speculative Application and include the title of the vacancy you are interested in.