Leicester City Council - Active Leicester
Company size
Approx 300 employeesSector
LeisureAbout Us
Leicester City Council’s Sports Services are the leading provider of sport and fitness facilities within the city, helping deliver the council’s long-term vision to reduce high levels of inactivity and increase participation across the City. Our brand is called ‘Active Leicester, ’ and encompasses seven leisure centres, all with gyms and pools, an athletics track, a climbing wall, a golf pitch and several football pitches.As a department we follow 5 values:
1. Put the customer at the heart of everything we do and listening to their needs
2. Create a great place to work, where people are inspired to be the best they can be. Where success is celebrated, and we work as a team across all our sites and services.
3. Build an unbeatable network of partners and fostering mutual loyalty.
4. Achieve outcomes and stretch targets, whilst being mindful of our overall responsibilities to our customers.
5. Be a highly effective, flexible, responsive, ‘can do’ service that nurtures our customers, and respects and trusts each other.
This is an exciting time to be joining the team. After 3 years of delivering year on year improvements, we now have in place ambitious plans to ‘step up the service’ to take us to the next level. The city’s learn to swim programme is at the heart of these plans. We’d love to hear from highly motivated and passionate individuals, who have the ability to provide the highest standard of service, can work within a team, have great communication skills and a ‘can do’ attitude to help deliver Active Leicester’s vision and values.
What it’s like to work for us?
As member of the sport services team you could be involved in an array of different activities, working across the services, from the golf course, to the leisure centres, in management, business development or in our parks and open spaces. Working in one of our leisure centres, you could be a centre attendant, ensuring our centres are welcoming, safe and attractive places for people to exercise in or you could be one of our coaches and instructors, teaching children how to swim, or leading an exercise class or reaching for the skies, as a gymnastics coach.Alternatively, working in operational management or in the field of business and sports development might be more your thing. Working in these areas you might be a centre supervisor, looking after the day to operation of the leisure centres, alongside the assistant and General Managers or you could be involved in the marketing, communication, and administration of the service. Ensuring the service reaches out to it’s community and provides a high-quality customer experience. Also, our development team are always on the lookout for the next innovation, by supporting the centre’s and community fulfil their potential through effectively run, modern and innovative sport and physical activity programmes.