Outdoor | Survival Leader - Kids Adventure Holiday Day Camp

Role Overview & Responsibilities

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:

• Childcare
• Free parking

Schedule:

• Holidays
• Monday to Friday

Work Location: In person