Trafford Leisure is on the lookout for a Dry Leisure Assistant.
Location: Stretford Sports Village
Rate: £12.00 (will rise in April 2025) / £12.92 if fitness qualified
Hours: 10.25 hours per week: shift Friday – 16:45 – 22:15 – Saturday 12:30 – 17:15
Why Join Us?
At Trafford Leisure, we’re on a mission to help our community get active, stay healthy, and live happier lives. As a community interest company, we’re committed to making a positive impact, both as a responsible employer and as the largest operator of sport and leisure facilities in Trafford. With over 2 million visits a year across nine indoor centers, a golf course, a driving range, and 31 outdoor football pitches, we’re passionate about supporting people to move more and feel great.
This is an exciting time to join us. With a multi-million-pound investment from Trafford Council, we’re transforming our five main indoor facilities into state-of-the-art, inspiring, and accessible spaces under our new brand, move. This ambitious program will create incredible opportunities for the local community—and we need an enthusiastic, committed team to bring it to life.
If you’re ready to be part of a dynamic organisation that’s making a real difference, we’d love to hear from you. Join us, and help Trafford move more and live better.
In the role of Dry Leisure Assistant, you will be responsible for:
- Meet & greeting customers
- Key holder responsibility to open and lock up the site
- Staying up to date with systems, processes, and industry best practices.
- Maintaining training and qualifications
- Preparing activity areas and equipment to meet the needs of the programme
- Ensuring all equipment meets the highest standards of safety and cleanliness
- Ensuring the safety of our customers
- Listening and responding to customers’ requests
- Collaborating with managers to enhance customer experience and operational efficiency.
- Supporting your centre’s sales and retention
We are looking for motivated, proactive, and enthusiastic individuals to join our team at an exciting period of change for Trafford Leisure.
What you need:
To succeed in this role, a Level 2 Fitness Instructor qualification is desirable. A First Aid qualification is essential but we can work with you to attain this if needed.
The ideal candidate will embody the Trafford Leisure Values of Making a Difference, being Open and Honest, Valuing Diversity and bringing Energy & Empathy into all ways of working.
What you can expect from us?
Our business is led by a small, passionate and professional group of individuals. We work together to support and lead our dedicated teams across the organisation which despite its size and number of locations has a fantastic family feel. As one of its strongest assets, we focus our attention on the people we employ, by providing training and continual development, only through this can we achieve the high levels of service and provision to our customers.
As well as training and development as a Trafford Leisure employee you will be rewarded with;
- A progressive, structured and supportive environment in which to work
- Pension scheme
- 32 days holiday, raising incrementally to 38 days after 5-years’ service, (including 8 bank holiday’s and 2 Trafford Leisure days)
- Company sick pay
- Health and Ride 2 Work schemes
- Complementary Fitness Membership for you saving you up to £450 a year
- Heavily discounted Fitness Membership for up to 5 of your Family & Friends saving each person up to £300 a year
- 24/7 access to a GP
- Employee health scheme – including Confidential Counselling
- Employee Assistant Programme which as an employee could claim back up to £1150 per year of healthcare costs
- Access to a Perks at Work scheme for discounts
- Access to Manchester Credit Union for savings and loans
Equality, equity, diversity and inclusion (EEDI)
Equality, equity, diversity and inclusion is critical for the success of Trafford Leisure and the achievement of our vision. We aspire to being a diverse, inclusive and responsible employer as we recognise that having a diverse workforce is essential to bringing fresh ideas and perspectives to our organisation, so we particularly welcome applications from minority, marginalised and diverse groups, and we in turn promise a fair and unbiased recruitment process.
If you need any help or support to apply for a position with us, then please get in touch at supportservices@traffordleisure.co.uk and we would be happy to discuss. We look forward to receiving your application.
The Next Steps
We’re looking to appoint as soon as possible, so if this sounds like the perfect role for you, don’t delay, apply TODAY by completing an application form and attaching your CV!
*Remember to specify the role and Centre you are applying for.
Closing date for applications is 4th April 2025
We do not accept speculative CV from Agencies and any CV’s received will be treated as a gift.