Sports Operations Assistant (inc Lifeguarding)


Company:	University of Portsmouth
Salary:	£25,949 to £25,949 a year
Hours:	Full-time
Location:	Portsmouth, PO1 2UP
Working pattern:	On-site
Job type:	Permanent
Posting date:	16 Oct 2026
Closing date:	1 Nov 2026

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Summary

As part of the Sports Operations Team you will help ensure that the indoor and outdoor sports facilities environment is safe for use and that a high level of customer service is maintained at all times. Alongside your responsibility for lifeguarding (providing immediate first aid / water rescue when required), you will help ensure sport areas ready for activity (including moving equipment safely), wider first aid provision and equipment cleaning; providing a high quality and friendly customer experience. There will also be a requirement for you to cover other operational tasks, as required

The role will be required to have operational sports facilities knowledge and experience of customer led, service environments.

The working pattern for this post is a 4 week working pattern - Mixture of earlies/lates/weekends. Please see the attached Rota for further details.

This position is working on-site only, so we are unable to support hybrid working for this appointment.

The interviews are currently anticipated to be held on Thursday 12 November 2026.

An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check with Adult & Child Barred lists is required for this post.

If you have any queries regarding this position, please contact Lee McCanny at Lee.McCanny@port.ac.uk or Sam Armstrong at Sam.armstrong@port.ac.uk or by calling 02392 02392 84 5555.

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