Leisure Assistant - Saturdays
Monkton Wood Academy, Taunton, Somerset, TA2 8PDThis job expired on 21 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
8 July 2025
Closing date
21 July 2025 at 11:59pm
Date listed
8 July 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
- £12.86 per hour
Leisure Assistant - Saturdays job summary
Job Title: Leisure Attendant
Actual Salary: £12.86 per hour
Hours: 5 hours per week, 8:30am – 1:30pm every Saturday.
Flexibility: Overtime available other days of the week and occasional change of working day or hours based on the business need.
Contract Type: Part Time, Permanent
We are looking for a Saturday Leisure Attendant to join our supportive and talented team at Monkton Wood Academy. We are a diverse multi-academy trust, looking for professional and ambitious people, with a passion for transforming our students’ learning. The successful applicant will become a member of the CLF Leisure and Lettings team.
About you:
To be successful in the post, we are looking for a Leisure Attendant who will ensure the safety of those using or hiring the academy's facilities outside of school hours. We hire the Academy’s Sports Hall, MUGA, brand new 3G Astro, small hall, performing arts studios and Classrooms to a range of customers from the local community. The Leisure Attendant will provide all visitors with a friendly and positive experience delivering effective customer service and maintaining safe and efficient facilities through supervision and high standards of housekeeping.
Hours per week can be flexible. Although we are particularly interested in weekend staff. Our facilities open around 5pm and close at 10pm on weekdays, and 9-5pm on weekends. We also open for daytime bookings during the school holidays. Our opening hours are dependent on bookings, so can vary. The hours per week can be discussed at interview.
Applicants are advised to refer to the full requirements of the role in the attached job description and person specification, prior to submitting an application.
Why work at CLF?
We are a diverse and inclusive community of 35 academies across five cluster regions in the Southwest that is committed to excellence and making a positive impact. Our people bring unique perspectives, but we’re all driven by a shared moral purpose and a passion for making a positive impact, whether in a teaching, leadership or support role. We’re proud to foster a culture where everyone can thrive, feel valued, and make a meaningful difference to the lives of others.
We are an equal opportunity employer and proud to serve a diverse student population and our communities. We strongly believe that representation matters and so encourage applications from underrepresented and global majority groups including ethnicity, gender, transgender, age, disability, sexual orientation or religion.
We aim to remove any barriers to employment, ensuring everyone can compete on equal terms. Job share, part-time and flexible working opportunities will be considered.
What we can offer you:
- Access to a generous pension through the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS).
- Generous annual leave.
- A comprehensive induction and ongoing commitment to wellbeing and career progression, through a range of training, apprenticeships and in-role/wider-trust development opportunities.
- Well-being support through an Employee Assistance Programme.
- Health benefits, including wellness sessions, gym discounts, and flu jabs.
- A range of generous family leave options, including above industry average occupational maternity pay.
- Additional benefits like cycle to work scheme, on-site parking plus many more!
Recruitment timeline:
- Closing Date: Monday 21st May
- Shortlisting Date: Tuesday 22nd May
- Interview Date: w/c 28th May
- Proposed Start Date: As soon as possible
We welcome visits from potential candidates. If you would like to arrange a school visit prior to the closing date, please contact the academy/site directly to arrange a suitable appointment.
As part of our commitment to Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), we do not accept CVs – a full education and employment history must be provided through our application form.
Skilled Worker visas cannot be sponsored through this role, as it does not meet the requir ements set out by government.
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early, should we receive a high level of interest in the role. Therefore, candidates are advised to apply at their earliest convenience to avoid missing out.
Further information about the job
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.
About Monkton Wood Academy
- School type
- Academy, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1266 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Monkton Wood Academy website
School location
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