Edinburgh Leisure
For a healthier, happier, and more active life.
Work With Edinburgh Leisure
Supporting Information
For more information about the role(s), please see below:
Additional Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance (32 days, rising with service up to 40 days)
- Paid sick leave
- Company pension (with employee contributions matched up to 12%)
- Opportunities for training, career growth and development
- Free membership across all our centres with access to fitness classes, gyms, and swimming pools
- Cycle-to-work scheme
- Access to discounts with a huge number of retailers (saving money in cinemas, restaurants, clothing, and electronics shops, on insurance and healthcare and much more)
An Introduction From CEO, Jen Holland.
A Charity On A Mission
Edinburgh Leisure is here to help people across the capital enjoy healthier, happier and more active lives.
As a charitable trust and the largest provider of sport and leisure facilities in the city, Edinburgh Leisure has been creating opportunities for people to get active since 1998. Every penny generated is reinvested back into supporting the health and wellbeing of Edinburgh.
Today, the organisation manages 75 sport and leisure facilities across Edinburgh, with an estate that includes 18 gyms, 12 swimming pools, six golf courses, sports pitches, tennis courts and Europe's largest indoor climbing arena. Behind that is a team of more than 1,000 people, making Edinburgh Leisure one of the city's largest local employers.
From delivering outstanding sport and leisure experiences to supporting the wider health and wellbeing of the city, Edinburgh Leisure plays an important role in everyday life across the capital.
For its people, that creates the opportunity to build a career with an organisation that is part of Edinburgh's communities and has a clear sense of purpose.
A Committed Team
Purpose
To inspire lifelong health and wellbeing for the people of Edinburgh by creating opportunities for everyone to get active and thrive.
Vision
A city where everyone is inspired to engage in physical activity, to improve their health and wellbeing.
Mission
By 2030, transform Edinburgh's health and wellbeing by reducing barriers, innovating delivery and engaging people and communities in being active.
Edinburgh Leisure Values
- Inclusive - We welcome and include everyone.
- Kind - We respect and care for everyone.
- Collaborative - We work with others to realise the power of physical activity.
- Creative - We test new ideas and develop solutions to continuously improve.
- Helpful - We are knowledgeable and empowered to enhance customers' experience and promote wellbeing.
People-Centred Organisation
People are at the heart of Edinburgh Leisure. With a team of more than 1,000 people, it is one of Edinburgh's largest local employers, bringing together a huge range of skills and experience. From coaches, gym instructors and swim teachers to greenkeepers, leisure attendants and teams working across finance, marketing, technology and professional services, everyone has a part to play in improving the health and wellbeing of the city.
What connects those very different roles is a shared sense of purpose. Working for Edinburgh Leisure means contributing to an organisation whose impact can be seen across Edinburgh every day, whether that is helping someone become active for the first time, supporting a young person to develop confidence through sport or creating opportunities for people who might otherwise struggle to access physical activity.
An Inclusive Workplace
Edinburgh Leisure is committed to creating an inclusive workplace where people feel valued, respected and empowered. Its values encourage colleagues to work together, bring forward new ideas, care about the people around them and use their knowledge to continually improve the experience of customers and communities.
The Difference Our People Make
Edinburgh Leisure's impact extends far beyond its gyms, pools and sports facilities. Through its Active Communities programmes, the charity works with people across Edinburgh who face barriers to being active, including those experiencing poverty and inequality and people living with long-term health conditions.
The scale of that work is significant. Active Communities supports 14,700 people to get moving, delivering around 160 health and wellbeing classes each week, while volunteers contribute more than 1,000 hours of support every month. Its Relocated People Access Programme has also generated more than 20,000 visits to Edinburgh Leisure facilities from refugees.
The programmes are designed to address some very real challenges facing communities across the city, from reducing health and social inequalities and tackling inactivity to preventing health problems and helping people remain active, independent and connected as they get older.
For Edinburgh Leisure's people, it means being part of an organisation where the work they do every day has a wider purpose: using the power of physical activity to improve lives and create stronger, healthier communities across Edinburgh.
I look forward to going to the gym with Gemma. Even if I’m not feeling 100%, I’ll never miss a session. My gran, who I live with sometimes, always reminds me about the rush of feel-good endorphins I get after I exercise, and I know she’s right.
Since I’ve started going to the gym, my fitness has improved, my mood is better and getting out of the house on a Monday morning helps me get my week off to a good start. I always feel more motivated to get things done and I’m far more likely to go to school.
