Sports and Leisure Assistants

Sports and leisure assistants, provide and maintain facilities for sporting and recreational activities and supervise their use, maintain the continuity of entertainment and social events, offer odds and accept bets on the result of sporting and other events, control gambling activities, work behind the scenes in production and broadcasting enterprises in a supporting role to ensure operations run smoothly.

More about this Career

Average Salary

£11712

New workers start around £3850. Normal pay is £11712 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £20581.

Jobs

3019

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.

Daily Tasks

Provides support in production and broadcasting operations, such as helping set up and maintain the set, running errands, moving equipment, looking after guests, and transporting crew and cast between locations.
Controls the progress of games of cards, roulette and other gambling activities according to established rules.
Assesses likely outcome of an event and establishes odds, accepts and records bets, issues receipts and pays out on winning bets.
Announces acts, makes introductions, proposes toasts and maintains the continuity of entertainment events and social functions.
Carries clubs for golfers, advises on the layout and distance of golf courses and appropriate choice of golf club.
Maintains hygienic operation of swimming pools and associated facilities such as hot tubs, showers and changing areas.
Work in teams patrolling popular stretches of the coast, advising people when and where they can swim safely and making rescues when necessary.
Supervises the use of swimming pools, gymnasium apparatus, fitness machines and other recreational equipment.
Maintains sports and leisure equipment and prepares equipment for use.

Skills Employers are looking for

Soft Skills

Soft skills are non-technical skills that include how you interact with colleagues, solve problems, and manage your work

Monitoring

65
Active Listening

60
Active Learning

58
Critical Thinking

57
Reading Comprehension

57
Learning Strategies

56
Speaking

56
Mathematics

51
Writing

49
Science

33