Activity Leader Job Description
This active role is suited to lively, dynamic individuals with a flair for outdoor activities. As a member of the childcare team you will ensure all children have a fun, safe and exhilarating action-packed holiday.
Each day you’ll help create an exciting, stimulating and imaginative programme involving a mixture of inexhaustible indoor and outdoor activities. You will then deliver these to children between the ages of 6 to 17 years of age.
Main Responsibilities
- Build excellent relationships with colleagues, parents and children
- Deliver the highest level of childcare
- Create and develop a happy, safe and stimulating environment
- Tailor-make weekly age appropriate exciting activity programmes
- Observe children’s progression and achievements, record keeping where necessary
- Develop positive relationships with other departments
- Be flexible, co-operative and communicate at all times
- Operate to the highest standard of health and safety
- Participate in evening duties
Abilities and skills
- Present a ‘can do’ attitude
- Team skills
- Enthusiastic and passionate for outdoor activities
- Outgoing, creative, energetic, fun-loving attitude
- Ability to inspire confidence and motivate older children
- Patient and sympathetic by nature
- Physical stamina and confident swimmers
Essential Requirements
- At least completed 2nd year of a degree course in Education, Sports or Coaching which involved full time placements with sole responsibility of children.
- Alternatively, 2 years experience in a childcare environment with children from 6 to 17 years
- Valid First Aid at Work Certificate
- Good swimmer
- Fluent in English
- Enhanced disclosure required through the ‘Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS)’
- UK/EU Passport holder
- UK National Insurance Number
- UK Bank Account
Benefits
- Return travel to/from UK
- Medical insurance
- Comfortable accommodation
- All meals
- Discounted drinks and beauty treatments (dependent on resort)
- Use of some hotel sports equipment and facilities including tuition
- Smart uniform
- Holiday concessions for friends and family
- A competitive salary
- Comprehensive training
- Opportunity to work year-round
- Management development