Leisure & Community Manager

Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy, Wolverhampton, West Midlands, WV10 8BL

24 days remaining to apply

• Start date details

  ASAP

• Closing date

  2 March 2026 at 12pm (midday)

• Date listed

  6 February 2026

Job details

• Job role:
  • Catering, cleaning and site management
• Visa sponsorship: Visas cannot be sponsored
• Working pattern: Full time
• Contract type: Permanent
• Full-time equivalent salary: £32,597.00 - £35,412.00 Annually (Actual) £32,597 - £35,412 37 hours per week (rota hours), 52 weeks per year

Leisure & Community Manager job summary

Leisure & Community Manager

Scale Point 20-24

Permanent

£32,597 - £35,412

37 hours per week (rota hours), 52 weeks per year

(Must be able to work flexibly)

Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy Committee wish to appoint a motivated, adaptable and experienced Leisure Facilities Manager.

The Academy is a nationally recognised sport and leisure provider, which includes a fitness suite, dance studio, floodlit 4G football pitch, netball courts, sports hall and climbing wall amongst its facilities. You will be joining the Company at an exciting phase, where we are promoting the use of our leisure and estate facilities to local community groups, clubs and businesses to support community cohesion.

The Academy encourages students to be aspirational, and has supported many students in successful applications to top universities, as well as pursuing progression routes into local colleges and industry. The school population of students and staff reflects the City population, in being a harmonious mixed faith and mixed culture community.

The successful candidate will assist the Academy by promoting the leisure facilities in all aspects of operational, marketing and communication activities, including:

• Budget Management;

• Ensuring staff and other resources are appropriately managed to provide a sustainable service to our customers and community stakeholders;

• Strengthen existing customer relationships and develop new opportunities with the local community;

• Develop a marketing strategy to promote the community, leisure and education facilities across the Academy;

• Strengthen links with sporting National Governing Bodies to accelerate coach education opportunities

• Develop a communication strategy that will ensure a consistent approach to leisure and facilities communication across the Academy;

• Maintain and enhance the Academy sports booking system to ensure a prompt and professional response to customer requirements

• Develop relationships and projects that enable revenue activity to be implemented.

• Adopt a beyond compliant approach in the day to day management of the sports centre

You will actively supervise and coordinate the operations of all areas of service. The successful candidate will demonstrate a flexible attitude to working hours. You will be required to work a shift pattern that covers the operational hours of our facilities, which operates until 10pm daily. You will be responsible for a small team of staff to support both evening and weekend activity.

We are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and expect all staff and volunteers to share this commitment. All appointments are subject to an enhanced DBS check, satisfactory references, and pre-employment medical clearance. In line with Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), online searches will also be carried out for shortlisted candidates. This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.

For more information please contact Daniel Belcher, HR Manager on 01902 558569.

(We are keen to receive early applications. We reserve the right to close advertised vacancies earlier than the published deadline, should the need arise).

Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy is part of the St Gabriel and the Archangel Multi Academy Trust

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 Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy

• School type: Academy, Roman Catholic, ages 11 to 18
• Education phase: Secondary school
• School size: 1191 pupils enrolled
• Age range: 11 to 18
• Ofsted report: View Ofsted report
• School website: Our Lady and St Chad Catholic Academy website
• See more jobs: teaching-vacancies.service.gov.uk/organisations/our-lady-and-st-chad-catholic-academy

School location

Get a job alert when similar jobs are listed

Find more school jobs in Wolverhampton and West Midlands