UK Youth has a fantastic opportunity for a passionate and enthusiastic Senior Instructor to join our Outdoor Learning team.

What is the role

As a Senior outdoor learning instructor, you will be part of our delivery team with responsibility for delivering our activities along with leading the team, supervising department resources and activity areas, mentoring and developing junior staff, supporting the day-to-day running of the department, and diligently meeting Health & Safety legislation and departmental SOP’s.

School residentials form a core part of our term time delivery but across the year we work with a wide variety of groups and adapt our delivery to support their specific needs. Part of your role will be in developing these programmes along with ensuring training is in place for the delivery team to enable them to offer high quality sessions which meet the needs of the groups.

You will also play a pivotal role in the success of our apprenticeship programme running your own cohort. This involves working with the rest of the team along with our apprenticeship provider to support the young people as they work their way through the scheme and become new instructors.

Who we are looking for

Essential to hold a valid first aid certificate and the following professional qualifications:

- Archery GB instructor

- BC Coach Award or minimum BC Paddle sport Instructor

At least one of the following off ground qualifications:

o   RCI Assessed

o   CWI Assessed (Abseil desirable)

o   ERCA Traditional Instructor + ERCA Generic Rescuer

And one of the following:

o   A nationally recognised walking/navigation qualification

o   A nationally recognised Mountain Biking qualification

o   A recognised environmental qualification

- Have previous experience of working in an outdoor centre for a minimum of 24 months

- Experience of delivering ambitious standards of customer care

- A general knowledge of Health and Safety relating to an outdoor learning environment

- A basic understanding of safeguarding and data protection within the context of an Outdoor Learning setting

What we can offer you

Salary: £25,033 p/a

Hours: 37.5 hours a week average

Onsite single room accommodation is also available in a shared lodge at £35pw

We also offer a competitive range of benefits:

• A personalised development programme including internal and external courses and qualifications

• 27 days annual leave plus bank holidays

• Pension scheme (currently UK Youth match employee contributions up to 5%)

• Membership of our life insurance scheme which would pay-out up to four times your salary

• Employee Assistance Programme to support employees both professionally and personally

• CycleScheme & TechScheme

How to apply

If you would like to be considered for this fantastic opportunity, please complete an application via our completely anonymised recruitment system (provided by Applied)

• Closing date for applications will be Friday 22nd July at 12 noon.

• Interviews are due to take place between the 1st and 3rd of August.

As this role involves working in a regulated environment with young people, any offer will be conditional to satisfactory background checks, which include criminal record check and employment reference.

As part of the recruitment process, UK Youth will be gathering and uses certain information about you. For further information regarding this, please review our Data Protection Privacy Notice which explains what data of yours we process and how we use it.