Leisure Team Member Apprentice - Swimming Required
(SLM) - Blackbrook Leisure Centre
Blackbrook lane (TA1 2RW)
Closes in 25 days (Thursday 3 July 2025)
Posted on 5 June 2025
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Summary
Are you passionate about Sport, Exercise and Fitness? Everyone Active are looking for a new Leisure Team Member Apprentice. The role involves Fitness Instructing, Lifeguarding, Swim Teaching, and leading group activity sessions! Apply now!
- Wage
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£25,467 a year
- Training course
- Leisure team member (level 2)
- Hours
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40 hours per working week. Shift work including evenings and weekends. Exact shifts to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Thursday 10 July 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
Everyone Active are looking for enthusiastic and energetic candidates to work towards their Leisure Team Member Level 2 apprenticeship.
At Everyone Active you will work towards your Leisure Team Member Level 2 Apprenticeship Qualification over the course of 15-months.
There are five key areas of work all leisure team members will cover; leisure and fitness operations, lifeguard duties, swimming teaching duties, gym instruction and leading group activities.
You will achieve your Level 2 in Fitness Instructing, Level 1&2 Swim Teaching & NPLQ Lifeguarding Qualifications as part of this apprenticeship.
Your duties will include:
- Provide exceptional customer service to all members
- Assisting with gym tours and inductions
- Covering lifeguard positions
- Support the centre swim teaching team to deliver exceptional swimming lessons
- Adopting a customer service focussed approach to your responsibilities
- Showing members how to use the gym equipment and machines
- Understanding Health, safety and welfare in a fitness environment
- Support and motivate clients who take part in physical activity
- Equipment setups safely and on time
- Effective communication with other team members
- Take appropriate action when identifying faults and hazards following all H&S procedures
- Achieve standards described in operations manuals
- Ensure daily operational checklists are completed
- Ensure cleaning tasks are completed to the company standard as per the schedule and signed off
- Ensure all pool supervision is completed according to Everyone Active standards
You will work a combination of Gym and Leisure side hours whilst working within the centre.
Progression within the company is a core value, and on completion of your apprenticeship you will have plenty of opportunities to progress and develop within the company.
You will receive on-going training and benefit from free use of the gym and swimming pool.
Where you'll work
Blackbrook lane
TA1 2RW
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
College or training organisation
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
Your training course
Leisure team member (level 2)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Work in a team to support peers and colleagues to meet the goals of the business.
- Communicate (written, verbal) accurately and effectively and in line with legal requirements. E.g. Information on products and accident reporting procedures.
- Undertake the operational housekeeping of the leisure facility. For example, assembling, dismantling, routine maintenance and storage of equipment. Cleaning tasks. Opening and closing procedures, including evacuation. Safe set up of equipment and activities.
- Monitor customer use of equipment and ensure their safety, intervening as necessary.
- Comply with the legal requirements to ensure the safety, security and well-being of all colleagues and customers within the facility, such as Equality Act, HSE Act, COSHH, RIDDOR, Safeguarding and Protecting Children, Data Protection, BSI and European guidelines relevant to the environment, first aid regulations.
- Use IT including front of house system, social media and digital channels.
- Perform all the duties of a swimming teacher including; delivering swimming lessons that develop water confidence, core aquatic skills, safety and technical skills across a range of participants of different abilities from non swimmer to advanced. Promoting and raising awareness of swimming opportunities. Supervising and leading swimming teachers assistants.
- Perform the duties of a lifeguard including; working as part of a team to provide safe supervision of swimmers and prevent accidents. How to intervien providing rescues and life saving techniques when necessary.
- Perform all of the duties of a gym instructor; including; conducting, gym inductions, client consultations, assessment and review and health screening. Use underpinning knowledge of anatomy, physiology, human movement and biomechanics and applying fitness training techniques. Planning, reviewing and delivering safe and effective gym based exercise programmes with individuals and small groups.
- Plan activity sessions using techniques that are suitable for the participant(s) and their goals.
- Undertake pre-activity screening and health and safety checks when leading group sessions/classes.
- Lead groups using appropriate communication methods and instructing styles and apply suitable group management techniques when instructing participants.
Your training plan
Leisure Team Member Apprenticeship Level 2 including Functional Skills in maths and English.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
Other in:
None required (grade None required)Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Team Working
- Organisation Skills
Other requirements
Enhanced DBS check is required for this role is required This role requires evening and weekend working on a rota basis.
About this company
We are the longest-established leisure contractor in the UK, having been founded in 1987. We are called Everyone Active for a reason: we have made it our mission to encourage everyone we come into contact with to participate in at least 30 minutes of moderate physical activity, either in one of our centres or via online training, five times per week. To help us achieve this mission, we manage over 190 leisure and cultural centres across the UK in partnership with more than 60 different local au
After this apprenticeship
Potential progression to Team Leader and then onto Duty Management training.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
LIFETIME TRAINING GROUP LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000324762.
Apply now
Closes in 25 days (Thursday 3 July 2025)
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