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GLL is looking for Creche Assistant, to work at the new Woolwich Waves Leisure Centre. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Creche Assistant, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Creche Assistant job, it's a career.
This is a rare opportunity to work at GLLs flagship facility set to open this year. The new Woolwich Waves Leisure Centre will be one of the largest flagship centres that GLL has operated. Designed by the Britannia project team and at a cost of over £115m, the new centre will boast:
- Large leisure pool with flumes, toddler pool and a large wet play park
- 25m, 8-lane fitness pool
- 20m training pool
- Spa Experience with health suite and treatment rooms, all adjoining the training pool to give a true health club style spa experience
- 200-station gym over two floors
- Four studios – Group Cycle, Elevate, and two fitness studios
- 6-court sports hall
- Indoor 5-a-side 3G pitch
- Two squash courts
- Café
- Soft play and party rooms
- Creche
- Healthwise suite
- Meeting room
What you’ll do:
- Comply with the commitments out lined in GLL Values ensuring that standards are maintained as stipulated
- Ensure that all compliance is followed
- Follow the legal requirements in line with Ofsted legislation
- Ensure you follow all relevant administration procedures
- Ensure that every child is given equality of opportunity and they are all included and supported
- Care of overs 8’s, does not adversely affect the care of the under 8’s
- Keeping all areas and equipment are checked and cleaned as per the cleaning matrix
- Ensuring you deal, log and report to the Children Activity Supervisor all safeguarding issues to the management team
As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.
What you need:
- Good understanding of the characteristics and qualities that guardians expect from a childcare provision
- Knowledge of Health and Safety Legislation
- Knowledge of GLL Safeguarding Polices Procedures and Code of Conduct on Safer Working Practices.
- Suitable level of experience working with children within a creche / Nursery environment
- NVQ Level 2/3 in Children's Childcare/ play work
- Experience of delivering an enabling environment whilst responding to children’s individual needs.
- Strong communication skills, patience, and the ability to work as part of a team
As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!
The basics:
- This is a Full time / part time /, permanent / Flexible position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service, flexible working may be possible, working from home is not possible in this role.
- We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay
- We can offer a career, not just a job with extensive Learning & development support available.
- A uniform will be supplied and must be worn
- GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
- As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and t have a stake in your business
Additionally GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:
- Access to a pension scheme.
- Health Assurance and access to Counselling services
- Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
- Free annual eye tests
- Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!
GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:
- The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you
- Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc
- Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet
About GLL:
As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres.
Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area. xwzovoh
One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us.?To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.
We offer two different types of work arrangements:
- A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
- A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool
If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right