Serco Plc
Duty Manager
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Duty Manager
Location: Oswestry Leisure Centre, Oswestry SY11 4QB
Salary: 15,424.68 plus excellent benefits
Schedule: 9-month FTC contract, part-time hours 20.5 hours per week, working a mixture of earlies, lates, and weekends, across a 3-week rota.
Make a positive difference every day
At Serco, we're pleased to be recruiting on behalf of Shropshire Community Leisure Trust.
Shropshire Community Leisure Trust encourages active, healthy lifestyles across the local community. Providing affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities in a safe, clean, friendly, and welcoming space, their goal is to support healthier and happier lives for everyone. Delivering these services relies on an enthusiastic, customer-focused team, and they're now looking for a Duty Manager to join their team and help make a positive difference every day.
As Duty Manager, you'll play a vital role in the day-to-day operation of the facility, ensuring activities are delivered safely, efficiently, and to a high standard. Leading operational colleagues and providing visible support to customers, you'll help create an environment where everyone can enjoy their visit with confidence. Your work has purpose, helping to deliver a positive impact on communities while supporting healthier and happier futures for local people.
What you’ll do as a Duty Manager
- Manage the facility on a day-to-day basis, ensuring activities are delivered safely and to a high standard.
- Lead, deploy, and support operational colleagues, ensuring duties are clearly allocated and completed effectively.
- Promote and maintain a strong health and safety culture, ensuring compliance with policies, procedures, and relevant legislation.
- Respond confidently to emergency situations, taking control and ensuring appropriate action is taken.
- Deliver excellent customer service and build positive relationships with customers, partners, and stakeholders.
- Monitor operational performance and contribute to continuous improvement through the use of performance data and key performance indicators.
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Does this sound like you?
- Experience in a similar supervisory or duty management role.
- A strong commitment to safety, customer care, and service excellence.
- The ability to lead and motivate colleagues while maintaining high operational standards.
- Confidence in making decisions, solving problems, and adapting to changing situations.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust with customers, colleagues, and partners.
What we offer
- Free gym membership for you and your immediate family
- Free safeguarding training and DBS checks
- Free swimming lessons and holiday clubs for one child (50% off for additional children)
- 25 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
- 6% employer matched pension contribution
- Training and development opportunities
- Employee Assistance Programme, Wisdom wellbeing app, Personal Trainer discounts
- Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment, travel, and gym equipment
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Vetting and checks:
This role requires a Basic DBS check, which will disclose any unspent convictions in line with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to help us identify and provide any support you may need to undertake the role effectively.
Ready to make a difference? Apply today.
Serco Leisure is one of the UK's leading national operators of leisure centres, destination venues, and elite sporting facilities, managing sites, services, and recruitment on behalf of the Leisure Trust.
Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential, and champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.
Guaranteed Interview Scheme:
Applicants with disabilities, veterans, and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
Ban The Box:
We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).
Please note, for many of our roles, a DBS check will be required.
For support with your application, please contact recruitmentuk@serco.com.
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