Active Communities Worker (18 hours)

18 hours per week

Fixed term until 01.12.2025

Salford Community Leisure (SCL) is committed to Building a Great Place to Work; with over 500 employees servicing more than 3 million customer visits at 60 venues across the city each year. We exist to ‘enhance the lives of people living in Salford through providing sport, leisure, and cultural opportunities.

We pride ourselves on recruiting the right people with the right values into the right roles. We are looking for professional, respectful, knowledgeable, passionate and solution driven people to join our team as we strive to deliver excellence to our customers.

We have an upcoming vacancy for the position of Active Communities Worker, whose role is to deliver both high-quality physical activity opportunities within a variety of community settings across Salford as directed by the Active Communities Development Officer and to deliver high-quality School Sports Coaching Programme to schools across the City as directed by the Active Education Development Officer. The position is fixed term for 12 months.

The role of Active Communities Worker will be based at a variety of community and school settings as part of Active Communities Team delivering diverse, structured and fun activities for children and young people aged between 4 -18 years at various venues and community settings throughout the City, whilst maintaining exceptional professional relationships with community partners. During school holiday periods you will be expected to support community delivery of holiday programmes across Salford.

We are looking for someone who:

• Holds a current recognised level 1 or 2 National Governing Body award in a relevant sport.
• Demonstrates up to date knowledge about coaching methods and techniques in your chosen sport(s).
• Demonstrates good organisational skills.
• Demonstrates good communication skills.
• Is able to demonstrate enthusiasm and good leadership.
• Exhibits the ability to work without supervision.
• Has experience of working with deprived communities, disadvantaged young people and the ability to deal with localised antisocial behaviour.
• Shows the ability to set up planned sessions according to the needs / abilities of the participants.
• Is able to compile progress / evaluation charts and monitor progression
• Consistently demonstrates SCL’s behaviours