Wellbeing Apprentice
Wealden Leisure Limited · Witham · posted 17 June 2026
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As a Wellbeing Apprentice with Freedom Leisure you will support the delivery of our HAF holiday clubs across 4 sites within the contract.
Working alongside experienced coaches and leaders, you will gain hands-on experience delivering sessions to children of all abilities.
You will also attend outreach events to promote Freedom and our wellbeing programme. Examples of outreach events include Carer’s Events, Age Well Fairs, Careers Days, Veteran’s support groups.
You will assist the team at Sporting Memories sessions, directing the volunteers and making sure participants are engaged.
Your day-to-day responsibilities may include:
- Assisting with admin relating to Healthy Communities work
- Undertake lifesaving training in relation to water safety, and then delivering the training or supervising sessions
- Supporting holiday club provision during school holidays
- Keeping updated registers for the holiday clubs and contacting parents
- Delivering sport or health sessions to small groups
- Setting up and organising equipment
- Promoting positive behaviour and engagement
- Supporting administration and operational tasks
- Ensuring sessions are delivered safely and in line with safeguarding procedures
Throughout the apprenticeship you will receive mentoring, practical experience. The ideal candidate will be enthusiastic, reliable, professional and passionate about working with the community and minority groups and be comfortable working with participants with mental and physical disabilities.
A willingness to learn and develop is essential.
Where it leads
- Successful apprentices may progress into a full-time role within Freedom following completion of the programme
- This could be as an instructor, or part of the Healthy Communities Team delivering outreach and working across sites
About Wealden Leisure Limited
Freedom Leisure is one of the UK’s leading not-for-profit charitable leisure and cultural trusts. We operate over 130 leisure, cultural and entertainment venues across the UK either in partnership with or acting as agent on behalf of the local authority. Our mission is to ‘improve lives through leisure’.
Things to consider
• Some elements of the role are physically active
You will need patience and understanding and be comfortable working with a range of demographics including those with dementia, the elderly, teenagers
A car would be useful as you may need to travel between our 4 sites across North Essex
• Candidates will be expected to maintain high standards of professionalism and safeguarding at all times
Skills they're looking for
Where you'll work
- Witham Leisure Centre, Witham, CM8 1LB
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