Duty Manager – Uppingham Careers

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Duty Manager

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Job details

Contract hours: 20
Basis: Part time
Salary: £13,967.20
Location: Uppingham School Sports Centre
Closing date: 7 July 2025, 11:59 pm

Description

Are you an experienced leisure professional with a passion for providing excellent customer service? Uppingham School Sports Centre (USSC) is looking for a part-time Duty Manager to help lead the daily operation of our outstanding, dual-purpose facility.

Praised by Lord Coe as “world class,” USSC offers exceptional resources for both the Uppingham School community and over 1,300 public members.

As Duty Manager, you’ll play an essential role within a supportive team to ensure the centre runs efficiently, safely, and to the highest professional standards. You’ll lead and motivate staff, provide exceptional customer service, and maintain rigorous health and safety protocols. Additionally, you’ll drive the promotion of memberships and activity programmes, oversee team performance, and handle key financial duties such as cash reconciliation.

About you

We’re looking for a confident and capable individual who brings:

  • Proven experience working in the leisure industry
  • Strong people skills and a calm, confident, and approachable manner
  • Experience supervising or supporting team members
  • A current First Aid qualification

A National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ) is also required, although if you don’t yet have it, we can support you to gain it within your first three months of employment.

Hours of work:

The role is part-time, averaging 20 hours per week on a rolling rota covering our opening hours: Monday to Friday from 7:00am to 10:00pm, Saturday from 8:00am to 6:00pm, and Sunday from 8:00am to 10:00pm

We reserve the right to close this advert early should we recieve a sufficient number of applications for the role. 

Uppingham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

All positions at the School are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, therefore ALL convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings (including those which would normally be considered ‘spent’ under the Act) MUST be declared, subject to the DBS filtering rules. All information given will be treated as confidential and each case will be taken on its merits. Failure to disclose this information may result in the withdrawal of an offer of employment or immediate termination of employment.

Uppingham School is an equal opportunities employer.

Working at Uppingham

Uppingham is a vibrant, stimulating, energetic and forward-looking school. Our community is made up of talented people offering a diverse range of experiences. We welcome applications from candidates who are both experienced and new to working within the independent education sector.