Sports & Leisure Team Leader

Hours of Work: Variable

Location: The Lakes Rookley

Role: Sports and Leisure

Salary: £13.21

Transport Provided: No

Accommodation: No

Closing Date: 03 March 2026

Sports & Leisure Team Leader

Location: The Lakes Rookley, Isle of Wight

Salary: £13.21 per hour- Paid weekly!

Hours of Work: Variable - some evenings & weekends required

What We Need in a Nutshell

Are you dynamic, determined, and enthusiastic? Do you thrive on providing memorable guest experiences? We're looking for someone like you to join our team as a Sports & Leisure Team Leader. You'll play a key role in supervising, controlling, and ensuring the safety of our customers while delivering the highest standard of customer service.

Who Are We?

We’re not your average holiday company. Our guests come to our UK resorts to experience a world away from their day-to-day. When they are with us, they play crazy games, enjoy show-stopping entertainment and live in the moment. Our job is to surprise and delight them at every turn.

What You’ll Be Doing

As a Sports & Leisure Team Leader, you'll assist in operating the leisure centre to achieve maximum sales while ensuring an exceptional customer experience. 

  • Actively market and promote the business, seeking opportunities to increase sales and improve customer service.
  • Supervise, train, and motivate the team to ensure efficient and effective operation of the centre.
  • Maintain and develop the highest levels of service and safety within the leisure centre.
  • Oversee the security of facilities, cleanliness, maintenance, plant operation, water quality testing, and stock replenishment.
  • Process financial transactions, cash reconciliation, and accept bookings in compliance with regulations.
  • Ensure a high standard of cleanliness throughout the centre.
  • Monitor and maintain the safety and welfare of customers and staff.

Skills, Experience, and Qualities You’ll Need

We’ll provide training, but you must have:

  • Hold a current valid NPLQ and a First Aid at Work certificate as well as experience in backwashing and experience of COSHH
  • A good standard of education, ideally to GCSE standard or equivalent
  • Works well under pressure and a good communicator too
  • Customer focused
  • Attention to detail even little ones and high standards
  • Pool Plant Operator (PPO), National Pool Management Qualification (NPMQ) or equivalent, Fire Warden training

We have a can-do, people-centred ethos at Away Resorts, and we look for certain qualities in our team members. Have a read about it and see if you fit the bill. 

What we can offer you 

We look after you with a great range of benefits, including: 

  • Competitive Pension 
  • Discounts on Away Resorts Holidays 
  • On Park Discounts 
  • Reward and Recognition  

Want to join our team? Here’s how to apply 

Just click on the Apply Now button and follow the instructions. To find out more about what it’s like to work for Away Resorts, check us out at www.awayresorts.co.uk/careers

Our promise to you 

Holiday Heroes come with all sorts of different super-powers, and we welcome them all! After all, wouldn’t it be boring if we were all the same? We embrace diversity, inclusion and equal opportunities. We love that everyone comes from different backgrounds, allowing us to grow and inspire each other. We’ll never accept any form of discrimination and we’ll forever strive not just for our product to be unique but our people too. In short, we want to bring your whole self to work!  

Good Luck! 

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