Sports Centre Assistant
Laurus Ryecroft, Manchester, M43 7LJThis job expired on 14 July 2025 – see similar jobs
Job start date
1 September 2025
Closing date
14 July 2025 at 9am
Date listed
25 June 2025
Job details
Job role
- Other support roles
Visa sponsorship
- Visas cannot be sponsored
Working pattern
- Full time, part time
Contract type
- Permanent
Full-time equivalent salary
- 12.67 per hour.
Sports Centre Assistant job summary
Do you love a vibrant, active environment? Are you passionate about health and fitness?
Following the success of our partner sites, Club Cheadle Hulme, Club Laurus, Club Didsbury, Hazel Grove Sports Centre and Club Priestnall we are delighted to be offering sporting activities to suit the whole community in a warm and welcoming environment at Club Ryecroft, based in the grounds of Laurus Ryecroft.
Club Ryecroft will have a variety of sporting facilities available to hire to local community groups and sporting clubs. This development leads to a fantastic opportunity for driven and passionate Sports Centre Assistants to become a part of our brand new team. In this role, the ideal candidate will assist in the smooth running of the sports centre facilities.
The working hours for this position are below, please specify within your application which position you are applying for:
- 37 hours per week - Midweek evenings 3.30-10.30pm x 4 Saturday 8am-5pm
- 10 hours per week - Saturday and Sunday 8am -1pm
Job Purpose (For further details on the role, please find the Job Description below)
- To support the daily interaction with community users along with the day-to-day cleaning, setting up and supervision of gym and sports facilities.
- To represent the Trust/School during community lettings periods.
Key Skills & Experience
- Sound educational background including GCSE’s in Maths and English (A*-C) or equivalent
- Must be able to move equipment correctly. (e.g. badminton posts, table tennis tables)
- Prior experience in a similar role
To learn more about what the Trust offer, including our wide range of employee benefits and access to further professional learning, visit our Careers page.
To complete an application form please click ‘Fast Apply’. A full application must be submitted as CV’s will unfortunately not be accepted in line with our safer recruitment process.
Closing date: Monday 14th July at 9am.
Interview date: Thursday 17th July.
We reserve the right to interview prior to the closing date.
Further information about the job
Commitment to safeguarding
The Laurus Trust is an inclusive Equal Employment Opportunity employer that considers applicants without regard to gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We welcome and encourage applications from all individuals regardless of individual background or circumstance.
As a Disability Confident Committed Employer, we strongly encourage applications from all persons with a known disability, and we will ensure that a fair and proportionate number of disabled applicants, that meet the minimum criteria for a role, will be offered an interview and given the opportunity to demonstrate their skills.
About Laurus Ryecroft
- School type
- Free School, ages 11 to 18
- Education phase
- Secondary
- School size
- 1142 pupils enrolled
- Age range
- 11 to 18
- Ofsted report
- View Ofsted report
- School website
- Laurus Ryecroft website
Laurus Ryecroft is an oversubscribed secondary school for 11 to 18-year-old students in Tameside. The school is run by the Laurus Trust and replicates the outstanding education offered by the Trust’s founder school, Cheadle Hulme High School (CHHS), based in Stockport. CHHS is a hugely oversubscribed school and has been named as one of the UK’s top-performing schools in The Sunday Times, ranking as the 15th non-denominational comprehensive school in Manchester and the North West in the annual Parent Power Survey for 2022.
Laurus Ryecroft is a non-selective, non-denominational free school. It opened in September 2018, initially providing 150 Year 7 places in five forms with 30 students in each. A further seven Year 7 forms will be added each academic year until the school is at full capacity. In addition to this the school will have a sixth form of 300 students.
Laurus Ryecroft is a vibrant, warm and exciting place to work and learn in. We are proud to be ‘Unashamedly Academic’ and have the highest aspirations for all of our students. Our Cornerstones – Academic Aspiration; Culture Creativity and Rhetoric; Leadership and Service; Competition and Physical Endeavour – detail how we develop and prepare our students to acquire the knowledge and develop the qualities which will open the door to the future of their choice.
We are a true learning community and value the acquisition of knowledge and believe it to be truly empowering. Our teachers are passionate about their subject and the students they teach. We pride ourselves on the quality of our learning environment and on the relationships within school. Our state-of-the-art facilities are valued and respected by all members of our school community. Laurus Ryecroft is a place of mutual respect. Our students display excellent behaviour for learning and a true thirst for knowledge.
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