Job Description
Do you want to spend your school holidays teaching a hobby that you love!
The role of an Survival Instructor is to use supporting resources to deliver quality, structured outdoor activities and workshops to groups of children aged 7 to 14. You will be expected to guide groups of children through week-long, timetabled courses with an emphasis on fun, excitement, teamwork, and skill development. You will have a pastoral role, being a group leader and ensuring their welfare
Spend your holidays teaching children:
- Build dens
- Fire lighting skills
- Knife work
- Wild camping
- Outdoor cooking
We provide training and coaching tips, however it would be your challenge to lead fun, exciting, awesome activities. Are you up for the challenge?
Job Duties
- Enthusiastic, energetic individual, passionate about working with children and supporting their development through adventurous activities.
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills.
- Experience within outdoor education (bushcraft specific) and experience working with children.
- Excellent communication skills and verbal reasoning. Candidates must be confident in their ability to lead a group of children and not shy away from responsibility.
- Flexible, team player, able to adapt to dynamic situations and challenges.
- Someone looking for a challenging, but hugely rewarding, enjoyable job in the holidays, as well as the opportunity to further their career in the outdoor education, adventure, and/or childcare industries.
Requirements
- Enthusiastic, energetic individual, passionate about working with children and supporting their development through adventurous activities.
- Excellent organisational and leadership skills.
- Experience within outdoor education (bushcraft specific) and experience working with children.
- Excellent communication skills and verbal reasoning. Candidates must be confident in their ability to lead a group of children and not shy away from responsibility.
- Flexible, team player, able to adapt to dynamic situations and challenges.
- Someone looking for a challenging, but hugely rewarding, enjoyable job in the holidays, as well as the opportunity to further their career in the outdoor education, adventure, and/or childcare industries.
Desirable Requirements
- Relevant degree or equivalent experience.
- Ideally qualified or studying towards NGB qualification in adventurous activities, such as archery, bushcraft and mountaineering.
- Ideally experienced in working in a similar camp setting, working with children aged between 7 and 14 years.
- Current outdoor or paediatric first aid qualification
Benefits
- Paid pre-camp training programme to prepare you to be a staff member.
- Subsidised First Aid qualifications and CPD opportunities.
- Competitive pay with progression opportunities.
- Each day is filled with rewarding work in an enthusiastic environment
Hours
- Monday - Friday 8am - 6pm during the school holiday we are running (Hours may vary on some days)
About United Adventure Camps:
Our Proposition: Empowering the next generation through education, language, leadership, growth and ingenuity
Our Vision: Empowering the next generation to live extraordinary lives Attitude and
Culture: Be accepting. Be yourself. Be ambitious. Be effective. Be efficient. Be a team player. Be human
If this sounds like a position you'd be interested in, or would like to know more about please send us your CV below.
United Adventure Camps are a safer recruitment company. This position will be subject to satisfactory safeguarding checks, 2 references and a clean enhanced DBS check (which can be performed by the company as a sponsor but paid for by the candidate).
Job Types: Full-time, Temporary contract
Salary: £350.00-£540.00 per week
Benefits:
Schedule:
Work Location: In person
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