We’d love to welcome you to our amazing team at Freedom Leisure
The community leisure services we operate are highly valued and make a real difference to health and wellbeing on a very local level. Working for Freedom Leisure allows you to play a very positive, local role, improving lives through leisure and making a genuine difference.
Why Work At Our Centre
Fulfil your ambitions and fit your job with your lifestyle
There are a wide variety of roles available & many people have more than one job, some at different locations, enjoying lots of diversity in the type of work they do. Our people work a variety of hours from 1 up to full-time, either permanently or on a casual basis. Freedom Leisure is large enough to be able to offer our staff many benefits, great flexibility, plus a broad range of career opportunities, training and security.
A sense of purpose working in your community
Community is important to us and our focus is on providing affordable and accessible local leisure, sport and community facilities for everyone in the communities we serve. We partner with local authorities and together, we work to provide what is needed, where it is needed and at a cost that is realistic for as many people as possible. Community leisure is about much more than fitness and gym provision.
Make Friends For Life
Working for Freedom leisure means you are part of the bigger team and everyone plays an essential part in our product and services. Our people are proud to work for us, like the people they work with and enjoy their roles; we know because we ask them.
Join a great Team
We listen to our people and 92% of our new starters, when surveyed, said they would recommend working for us to others. Every member of our team, whether front-line at one of our sites or in a support function at site or centrally, has a role that contributes to us providing great experiences for all our customers.
What Types Of Roles Do We Offer?
Management
Sales & Marketing
Lifeguards & Swim Instructors
Customer Service
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Catering & Hospitality
Centre Operations
Facility Management
Administration
Join us today
We have many different positions across 100+ centre’s throughout the UK.
Disability Confident Accreditation
Freedom Leisure has attained a Level 1 'Disability Confident' accreditation. As a 'Disability Confident' Employer we have committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible, communicating and promoting vacancies, offering an interview to disabled people who meet the minimum criteria for the job and supporting any existing colleagues who acquires a disability or long-term health condition, enabling them to stay in work.
Frequently Asked Questions
For all our jobs you will need to apply online via the link. It’s a very simple process, all we need is a copy of your CV and a covering letter. The local site team will be in touch to let you know whether you’ve been taken forward to the next stage.
Yes of course you can. There is no restriction on the number of applications you make.
There are a wide variety of jobs including administration and reception roles, fitness instructors, swimming teachers, managers and supervisors, creche assistants, visual arts, lifeguards, healthy and active communities, customer services, finance, HR, sales & marketing and many more.
All hours are dependent on the role requirements. We have full time roles and many part-time ones, there should be something to suit everyone. Discuss the hours you are able to work with the recruiting manager.
The hiring manager will confirm your start date and details of the role and obtain from you the relevant documents required. This is then given to our HR team, who will send you details of what is required to set you up on our payroll. Once we have all relevant documents we will issue an employment contract or casual worker agreement.
A start date will be confirmed and the team at site will supply you with any uniform required for your job role.
This will depend on the role but we aim to keep you informed of the progress of your application. If you don’t hear from us when you were expecting to you can send us a message via the jobsite.
It depends on the role and site. Quite a few of our jobs will be subject to DBS checks and we are always thorough in ensuring checks are completed. We will also check Right to Work documents to ensure you have the Right to Work.
We have many opportunities and people who have progressed through the organisation. If you are ambitious then you can develop your career with us. Discuss your ambitions with your manager and look out for opportunities to enhance your experience, skills, responsibilities and knowledge. At your appraisals you and your manager will discuss development and opportunities with you.
We have a very wide range of learning and development opportunities. Some will be mandatory, relating to your role, some is corporate and important to all our people, such as Health and Safety. There is a huge variety of on-line training, a personal development platform – My Smart Path with bite-size learning and management development programmes. You can also take part in our apprenticeship programme to gain different qualifications.
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If you need help with anything, please visit our help centre or get in touch!