Recreation Assistant
Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre
Post Title: Recreation Assistant
Sites: Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre
Salary: Up to £26,510 per annum
Hours: 40 hours per week
Contract Type: Permanent
Closing date for receipt of applications: 11 August 2026
The role:
BH Live is recruiting for Recreation Assistant's to join our team, at the Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre. You will support the safe, effective and customer-focused day to day operations of the centre, whilst ensuring high standards of presentation, operational readiness, customer experience and activity delivery across all areas.
You will:
- Support the delivery of activities, bookings, events and operational programming across the Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre.
- Prepare, set up and clear down sports facilities, activity areas and operational spaces.
- Support opening and closing procedures, key holding responsibilities, site security arrangements and operational readiness checks as required.
- Carry out operational inspections, equipment checks and routine monitoring across the facility, taking action to rectify minor issues where appropriate.
- Support the maintenance and presentation of all areas across the Southampton Outdoor Sports Centre.
- Undertake routine operational tasks to ensure the facilities remain safe, compliant and operationally ready.
- Report accidents, incidents, defects and operational concerns through appropriate procedures and support follow-up actions where required.
To be successful you will need:
- Previous experience of working within a customer service, leisure, sport or operational environment.
- Excellent customer service skills.
- The ability to work effectively as part of a team.
- Understanding of health & safety procedures.
- Flexibility to work evenings, weekends and bank holidays.
- A First Aid qualification (or willingness to obtain the qualification within 8 weeks)
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We offer:
- Onsite parking
- Training and development opportunities
- BH Live Active - Gym membership
- Health cash plan
- Employee Assistance programme
- Company pension matched up to 6% contributions
- Colleague discount on food and drink
- Colleague recognition
- Birthday / Celebratory day off
- Loyalty Rewards
About BH Live:
We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.
Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.
Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:
• More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing
• Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience
• Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people
We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.
Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.
As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.
We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.
To apply:
All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site: careers.bhlive.org.uk.
BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.