Senior Recreation Assistant

Post Title: Senior Recreation Assistant

Site Location: Mountbatten Leisure Centre, Portsmouth

Salary: £26,225 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

Closing date for receipt of applications - Sunday 23 November 2025

The role:

We are recruiting for a Senior Recreation Assistant to join our busy & friendly team at The Mountbatten Centre in Portsmouth. The role will assist the Customer Operations Manager in the supervision and control of our Recreation Assistants on duty in order to ensure our customers are kept safe when using our swimming pools.

To learn more about the centre, please visit here

You will:

• Supervise Recreation Assistants, ensuring adequate staffing levels at all times and appropriate rotation between workstations.
• Supervise the public during their participation of the Centre's programme, ensuring their safety and compliance with the centre rules.
• Clean the centre and its equipment.
• Erect, dismantle and move equipment.
• Possess and maintain through the regular training sessions provided, the RLSS NPLQ Lifeguard Certificate and a current recognised First Aid Certificate.
• Carry out pool water tests and escalate any irregularities.
• Administer First Aid and Resuscitation as required.
• Be fully aware of the Centre’s Normal Operating Procedures and Emergency Action Procedures.

You will need:

• Experience within the Sports and Recreation Industry.
• Experience of dealing with customers face to face.
• Be calm and level headed under pressure.
• Be a team player with a positive attitude
• Be able to work unsocial hours including evenings, bank holidays and weekends
• Hold a First Aid at Work Qualification
• Hold a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ)

Please click here to view the job description for more details on this role,

Due to the nature of our business hours of work will include weekends, bank holidays and evenings.

BH Live is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including referencing and an enhanced DBS check.

We offer:

· Onsite parking

· Training and development opportunities

· BH Live Active - Gym membership

· Health cash plan

· Employee Assistance programme

· Company pension matched up to 6% contributions

· Colleague discount on food and drink

· Colleague recognition

· Birthday / Celebratory day off

· Loyalty Rewards

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

· More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing

· Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience

· Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

To apply:

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site.

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.