Community Leisure Assistant

Kenton School, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE3 3RU

11 days remaining to apply

• Closing date

  3 November 2025 at 8am

• Date listed

  23 October 2025

Job details

• Job role:
  • Other support roles
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Part time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £12.85 Hourly 6 hours per week, 4pm to 10pm (Wednesdays)

Community Leisure Assistant job summary

Kenton School is committed to maximising use of our sports facilities for a wider community use on evenings and weekends. We are therefore seeking to recruit a Community Leisure Assistant to join our team working outside of school hours taking bookings, opening and closing the facilities, ensuring equipment and facilities are available and prepared, and demonstrating safe use to customers.

This is an exciting opportunity to work in our fantastic Centre, working as part of a team to help develop and create new business opportunities. If you are the candidate for us, you will possess previous experience working in a sports or leisure facility and a related qualification, i.e. Level 2 Gym Instructor qualification, combined with excellent communication and organisation skills to work effectively and promote facilities to a wide range of customers.

Post holders will be required to move, set up and dismantle large sports equipment on a regular basis, i.e. full-size trampolines and bouncy castles, therefore candidates must be able to fulfil this requirement of the role.

If you have the skills, commitment and enthusiasm to succeed in this role, we want to hear from you.

In return we can offer you,

Access to the Local Government Pension Scheme.

Salary sacrifice schemes such as cycle to work and car leasing scheme (NHS Fleet Solutions)

Access to free gym facilities on our Kenton School site.

Access to a range of health and wellbeing initiatives.

The opportunity to work in a fantastically resourced school with easy commuting access to both the A1 and A19, in a supportive team committed to the development of all our staff.

Further information about the job

The candidate will be required to undergo a full enhanced DBS check and must be eligible to work in the UK.

Visas cannot be sponsored.

If you're interested in teaching or training to teach in England as an international citizen, we can help you understand your next steps.

Commitment to safeguarding

Our organisation is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children, young people and vulnerable adults. We expect all staff, volunteers and trustees to share this commitment.

Our recruitment process follows the keeping children safe in education guidance.

Offers of employment may be subject to the following checks (where relevant):
childcare disqualification
Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)
medical
online and social media
prohibition from teaching
right to work
satisfactory references
suitability to work with children

You must tell us about any unspent conviction, cautions, reprimands or warnings under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975.

Applying for the job

This school accepts applications through their own website, where you may also find more information about this job.

CVs will not be accepted for this application.

About Kenton School

• School type: Academy, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary
• School size: 1713 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Kenton School website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/kenton-school

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