Casual roles at Met Sport Cardiff, Wales
Job description
The opportunity
Cardiff Met Sport is the driving force behind sport, physical activity, health & wellbeing in Wales’ Capital City. Our mission is clear – ‘to profoundly enhance the lives of our communities, making them healthier and stronger as an outcome of engaging with us’. We run and offer a range of sporting opportunities for children from our communities on the Cardiff Met Cyncoed Campus. We also lead the strategic direction and delivery of a wide variety of cutting-edge development programmes across schools, communities, clubs & workforce, and health & wellbeing both on our campuses and throughout Cardiff. To continue to achieve this, we need ‘game changers’, people with drive, passion, creativity and flair who see hurdles rather than problems, can think differently and want to make a positive and lasting impact on people’s lives, in Wales and beyond.
At Cardiff Met Sport we are continually growing our programmes and need a passionate and dedicated workforce to support our growth. We have a number of roles available across Cardiff Met Sport including:
- Casual Coaches (Various sports including Basketball, Tennis, Athletics, Trampolining, Gymnastics, Hockey, Rugby, Netball and multi-sports)
- Casual Community Campus Assistants
- Casual Swimming Teacher
- Casual Assistant Swimming Teacher
You will work alongside our experienced staff and hours of work will vary from office hours through to evenings and weekends. Applicants are not restricted to applying for one role, if you have the skill set, experience and qualifications to work across more than one area please let us know when applying. These posts are offered on a casual basis.
You will be an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent participant experience.
What you’ll do – key duties
Casual Junior Sport Coaches:
We are looking for enthusiastic, qualified sports coaches to help us deliver the Junior Sport programme at Cardiff Metropolitan University and you will work within your chosen sport as part of the coaching team to maximise the participant experience in the Junior Sport Programme. You will support with planning and delivery of inclusive, safe and effective coaching sessions for a range of participants, using appropriate equipment and methods.
Casual Community Campus Assistants:
You will work with the team of community campus sport officers to operate school sport facilities for community use during evenings and weekends. You will help build and maintain a strong relationship with both the school staff and community sports clubs and organisations who are accessing the facilities, ensuring all facilities and clubs are operated safely. This post is offered on a casual basis.
Casual Swimming Teachers:
We are at an exciting stage of progression within aquatics at Cardiff Met Sport. A completely new Learn to Swim programme is due to launch this year, offering
enthusiastic and determined people the chance to assist in the development of a modern and competitive swim education provision. This is an amazing opportunity to showcase your ideas and make your mark on an ever-growing Aquatics Programme.
What you’ll bring – essential experience & strengths
- Understanding of safeguarding and child protection policies.
- Understanding of customer care and service delivery.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Ability to work on own initiative and within a team.
- Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing with both internal and external partners.
- Good understanding of customer care and Health & Safety.
- Ability to work evenings and weekends.
What you’ll have - essential qualifications
We’re looking for evidence of relevant experience and qualifications in each of the named teams. Please see the relevant job description for more details.
Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University?
We're delighted to have recently won two prestigious awards – the Times Higher Education UK and Ireland University of the Year 2021 and The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide Welsh University of the Year 2021.
We are a values-based University. We are proud of our culture and we are there for our people. Our community spirit is the golden thread that underpins our values and behaviours. We support each other, we are kind to one another, and we are one team; we are One Cardiff Met. We encourage and embrace inclusion that enables everyone to feel respected and able to perform at their best.
In addition, the University offers highly competitive terms and conditions including:
- Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous contributions.
- Flexible and remote working opportunities.
- Excellent family friendly policies.
- Award winning sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership, plus subsidised physiotherapy/complementary therapy/sports massage.
- Access to all library facilities.
- Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work.
- Free family access to our independent specialist wellbeing support provider, Health Assured.
How to apply
To apply for this role, please send a CV and covering letter detailing your interest and suitability for the role to the responsible manager as detailed below:
- Casual Junior Sport Coach to - Gethin Smart (Sport Development & Workforce Manager) [email protected]
- Casual Community Campus Assistants to – Rhys Jones (Duty Manager) [email protected]
- Casual Swimming Teachers to – Ryan David (Aquatics Manager) [email protected]
If you would like to talk with us about the range of opportunities available please contact Gethin Smart, Sport Development & Workforce Manager at [email protected]
We are committed to supporting and promoting equality and diversity and to creating an inclusive working environment. Our Strategic Plan underpins our commitment to recruit and retain the best talent and we welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds. We appoint on merit.
Due to the coronavirus pandemic all of our recruitment is being conducted virtually. We aim to respond to your application as soon as possible.
Further information
Please read our Candidate Pack or visit our staff recruitment website for information about working for us, our culture, benefits, work-life balance and our career progression and development opportunities.
