Sports Centre Assistant - Heriot's Centre Sports and Exercise

We are seeking to appoint reliable, motivated and enthusiastic people to join The Heriot's Centre for Sports and Exercise Ltd from April 2026. The Sports Centre Assistant (SCA) will work as part of a team of staff to support the Centre Manager and Supervisor in the day to day running of the facility. Working as part of a shift rota, the SCA will help to deliver excellent customer service and ensure the safety and good conduct of those members of the public who hire the facilities available.

• During School Term Time:
  Monday – Thursday Evenings from 5:30pm – 10pm, Friday evening from 4:30pm – 10pm, Weekends from 8.30am to 10pm
• During School Holidays:
  Monday to Sunday from 7am to 10pm

Please see attached job description for full details.

We welcome applications from those with a passion for providing excellent customer service. Whilst the position does not require a sports related qualification, a proven interest in Sport and Exercise would be desirable.

Heriot’s is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people and expects all staff and volunteers to share in this commitment. This post is considered Regulated Work with Vulnerable Children and/or Protected Adults, under the Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007 and the successful candidates will be required to obtain membership of the PVG scheme.

Parking is not available on our campus.

George Heriot’s Trust is an Equal Opportunities employer and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

George Heriot’s School is Edinburgh’s leading independent school. Academically proven and recognised as sector‑leading by Education Scotland in June 2024, the school’s best practice expertise in wellbeing, equality and inclusion, and in raising attainment and achievement, is acknowledged. The school has 1,670 pupils aged from 4‑18, with a distinct family feel shaped by its 400‑year motto: I distribute chearfullie. Working hard, being kind, and being yourself are the values which bind staff and pupils into a cohesive whole.

Put simply, Heriot’s cares about its staff and pupils.

As Edinburgh’s oldest school, Heriot’s was founded through the generosity of George Heriot, jeweller and goldsmith to the court of King James VI/I and his wife Queen Anne. Goldsmiths at that time were the principal money lenders and Heriot was able to amass a small fortune which he left to found a school for the ‘poor bairns of Edinburgh’. Since it opened, the Foundation at Heriot’s has developed an unrivalled understanding of providing bereavement support and over the years has educated in excess of 5,700 Foundation pupils, each of whom received a fully funded education in keeping with the Founder’s wishes.

Separately, the school has continued to apply the transformative powers of education, opening 21 Out Schools in the 1800s which educated over 100,000 boys and girls in Edinburgh before the advent of the Children’s Act, and more recently supporting Serbian, Syrian and Ukrainian refugees to build a better life in Scotland. Each year the school spends approximately £1.3 million to support the education of bursary and Foundation pupils.

Today the school is an award‑winning beacon: the only school in Scotland to receive the Gold Award from SAPERE for its teaching of philosophy in Junior School; awarded a third consecutive gold award for being a UNICEF Rights Respecting School and being voted the Sunday Times School of the Decade by readers in their Parent Power survey.