Instructor - Weymouth

Instructor - Weymouth

Location: Weymouth National Boat Centre (WNBC), Dorset, DT4 8TZ

Contract: Full Time Permanent (44 hours – 6 days a week)

Salary: £27,000 per annum

Closing Date: 4 November 2024

Interviews: Week Commencing 11 November 2024

Are you an Instructor looking for a new opportunity?

The Marine Society & Sea Cadets (MSSC) is the leading maritime charity for youth development and lifelong learning. We are a vibrant and growing charity inspiring young people to achieve their potential through challenge and nautical adventure and also enabling seafarers and maritime professionals to realise their potential through learning and career development. Working with our employees, cadets, and volunteers, we have built a strong vision and five-year Future Ready strategy to meet the growing demand for what we provide, both for young people, seafarers and maritime professionals – and the thousands who aspire to be the sea cadets and marine professionals of the future. It is also about equipping them to achieve their potential and thrive in a rapidly changing world, while growing our charity to benefit even more people – including those from under-represented or marginalised groups.

We are currently looking for an Instructor to join our team.

About the role

The Instructor is instrumental in facilitating and delivering life changing, positive experiences for young people. They will work within the team to support both volunteers and young people whilst providing high quality, role model delivery. The post will require experience of dealing with people of all ages/backgrounds, in the delivery of activities, and equipment/facilities maintenance.

As a team player you will report to the Centre Manager, with a functional line from the Chief Instructor.

We are looking for a passionate practitioner, with a background in delivering activities both on and off the water, and experience of maintenance and procedures management. Experience of working with young people is essential.

Responsibilities

The following is a list of the key responsibilities of Instructor but it is not exhaustive.

• Maintain in date personal qualifications relevant to the role, including first aid.
• Maintain a high standard of safety.
• Act as Duty Lead Instructor.
• Specifically lead on the day-to-day maintenance and upkeep of the shore-based facilities, including climbing, mountain biking and shooting.

Requirements

• Sound knowledge and ability across a range of outdoor/watersports disciplines
• A demonstrable background in the delivery of high-quality activities to a wide client base
• A strong awareness of health and safety policy and regulation
• Experience of working with volunteers
• Excellent organisational skills

For further information, please download the Recruitment Pack. If you are interested in this role, please apply now!

Benefits

• 51 days annual leave per annum
• Hybrid working for many roles
• Volunteering Leave
• Life assurance (4x salary)
• Private medical insurance
• Generous pension (employer contribution up to 10%)
• Cycle to work scheme
• Wellbeing portal and EAP with 121 counselling
• Employee development: We are investing in our employees' development and have an annual calendar of learning and development opportunities, designed to support employees to develop into their roles and stretch them to achieve their full potential.

Additional Information

MSSC positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates from all backgrounds. Equity, diversity, and inclusion really matters to us, so we can best serve our beneficiaries from every community. We work to ensure a fair and consistent recruitment process and aim to be a charity where diversity of experience, identity and skills are valued and welcomed. MSSC is an equal opportunities employer.

We recognise our responsibilities to safeguard and protect the young people and vulnerable adults with whom we work. We do all we can to promote their health, safety and wellbeing, and we expect our staff to share this commitment and work in line with safeguarding policy, the MSSC’s values and ethos of inclusivity. We adhere to safer recruitment practices and therefore employment is subject to detailed pre-employment checks for successful candidates, including references and criminal disclosure checks and the completion of a disclosure questionnaire.  

All successful applicants are required to attend safeguarding training and undergo pre-employment checks including a criminal record check.