Job Description
Have you enjoyed working at a summer school before and feel ready for a more senior position? Maybe you’ve had experience leading teams of people before and want to try something exciting this summer.
Our Senior Activity Leaders are well organised, natural leaders. You’ll be professional, calm under pressure and enjoy supporting others, as you help to deliver our high-quality summer activity programme to our students.
Every year, from late June to mid-August, we welcome over 6000 young students (aged 8-17) from different parts of the world to one of our seven centres. Our aim is to provide them with a fun and educational holiday experience, which includes English language classes and engaging activities and excursions. And that's where you come in!
We look for enthusiastic and energetic professionals to support our Activity Leader Team, who in-turn provide our students with a wide range of activities and excursions. Activities range from sporting, drama, arts to quizzes, discos, fashion shows; the list goes on. Excursions involve leading groups to theme parks, city tours, historical sites etc.
For the senior role, you must have experience of working in a summer school setting or similar.
Locations: Bournemouth, Canterbury, Cambridge, Central London, Uxbridge, Northampton, and Oakham (famous for the Michael Owen Red Stars football school) to choose from.
Contracts: You can choose your contract of 2-6 weeks between late-June to mid-August. You must be available within at least 2 weeks in July, as this is our busy period. We can support you with food and accommodation if you’d like to try a residential contract.
It’s an opportunity for leadership experiences, while you earn over the summer holidays
A great opportunity if you are pursuing a career in working with young people, in education, sports, or drama. We provide appraisals and training, ideal for your continuous professional development
Lots of support from centre and head office management
Accommodation + food included if you are residential
You are welcomed and supported with a full induction and training
Earn while gaining experience in supporting young people in a multi-cultural environment
Lots of our Senior Activity Leaders return during the following summers, which gives them the option to progress even further within our Study Holiday programmes as an Activities Manager
Opportunities to gain teaching qualifications at the end of your contract.
Pay & Hours:
- Working 48 hours per week over a 6-day week. This is a fully immersive working experience
- Pay: £594.88 per week plus holiday entitlement - accommodation is included if required
Working closely with the Activities Manager, you will be supporting and the team of Activity Leaders. This includes supervising and briefing them on their duties, procedures and any risk assessments involved in the activity session or excursion.
Encouraging and supporting students to take-part in fun activities or events, while maintaining accurate registers and reporting feedback to Activities Managers
Carry out mealtime and free-time supervision; with some ‘lights-out’ duties (if residential)
Caring for the health, safety, and wellbeing of our Activity Leaders and students
*You must already have the right to work in the UK. Why not read the full duties on our Job Description; this is available below this advert + see our FAQs on our studyholidays.com website.
WHO ARE WE? Stafford House has over 70 years’ experience in providing international students with great English language study experiences in the UK. Our mission is to educate, inspire and help our students enjoy our locations, empowering them with confidence to realise their personal potential. Stafford House comprises 2 brands, Stafford House International and Stafford House Study Holidays.
We offer 7 fantastic study locations within the UK with a wide range of courses to choose from including English Language and activities, creative Art & Design, sports, and academic preparation courses.
Stafford House International is part of CATS Global Schools (CGS), a leading education group committed to inspiring the next generation of world shapers.
OUR COMMITMENT TO SAFEGUARDING: CATS Global Schools are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of our students and expect everyone connected with the organisation to share this commitment. All positions are subject to the satisfactory completion of safer recruitment pre-employment checks in line with KCSIE guidelines. All shortlisted candidates will be required to complete a criminal declaration form prior to interview and be subject to online checks which may include social media checks in addition to an enhanced DBS check (DBS process paid for by CATS Global Schools), references and if applicable, an overseas police check.
OUR COMMITMENT TO INCLUSION AND DIVERSITY: We are committed to diversity, inclusion and belonging. Building on our core values – Pioneering, Persevering, People – we pledge to deliver a series of events, guest speakers and focus groups to make CATS Global Schools an employer of choice for all.
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What are you waiting for? We look forward to hearing from you. Good luck!