Casual Gym Receptionist

Job Description

***WE ARE NO LONGER TAKING APPLICATIONS AS OF 6TH MARCH 2025. THE JOB ADD IS NOW CLOSED. THANK YOU.***

 

 

LOCATION STRAND AND/OR LONDON BRIDGE - LOOKING FOR WEEKDAY AND WEEKEND COVER. The casual receptionist is an important role in helping King?s Sport & Wellness deliver its range of services to all members across our 2 gym sites. You will work closely with the full-time health and fitness coaches and the gym operations supervisors to ensure that members are given a world class experience. 

The role is a zero hour contract and shifts are allocated subject to need using the app SLING. WEEKEND shifts are priority. You will need to have or be working towards a FIRST AID qualification. 



Qualifications

Essential Qualifications: 

First aid qualification 

Must be able to work weekends

Must be able to work flexible hours, including early shifts, late shifts, and weekend shifts, and have good availability 

A good level of education (A-level) or equivalent. 

Suitable experience and knowledge of working in a similar/related role 

Commitment to continued professional development 

Excellent communication skill across a variety of customer groups and ability to forge good relationships with a variety of departments or user groups 

A strong grasp of information technology and Microsoft office skills including word and excel 

 

Desirable qualifications/qualities: 

Level 2 Fitness Instructing Qualification or working towards Level 2 Fitness Instructing Qualification. 

Other fitness related qualifications. 

Knowledge of relevant Health and Safety regulations. 

Knowledge of the importance of physical, mental and social skills to aid individual wellness. 



Skills

To monitor the gym members to ensure their safety and report any concerns to the full-time team members 

To support the gym team to continually maintain and exceed operational performance of the gyms 

To assist in the operational systems and processes of managing health and fitness memberships and services and ensure all card transactions are accurately reported. 

Ensure all operating policies are adhered to whilst in the gyms - being responsible for the opening and closing procedures and ensuring all equipment and the building operates within health & Safety guidelines as required 

To develop positive working relationships with the health and fitness coaches, King?s Sport & Wellness staff, and other student service providers within the University to enhance students? experience. 

Provide an exceptional level of customer service through phone, email, and face-to-face interactions as well as signposting to other King's Sport & Wellness services. 

Escalate customer enquiries to relevant parties using correct procedure  

Any further duties, which may reasonably be required by King?s Sport & Wellness Gym Management or King?s Sport Senior Management 

MORE JOBS LIKE THIS

King?s Culture are looking for a student to do a small amount of transcription work and collate some survey data, to help us with the evaluation of our Lost & Found season of events, which have taken place across the 2024-25 academic year.
The work involves typing up hand-written reflections cards from various events, and separating out attendance numbers and survey data for individual events. In addition, pulling out useful quotes from the responses that we can use in our wider evaluation report. 
We anticipate the work will take approximately 5 hours in total, plus an hour paid induction time, and can be done flexibly and remotely across June ? July as is convenient. 
The hourly rate for the role is ?14.88.
 



Qualifications

NONE



Skills

The survey data is in Excel and the data will be pulled together into a Word document, so some familiarity with both Excel and Word will be expected. Previous experience of transcription or processing data is preferable. 

The Faculty of Natural, Mathematical, and Engineering Sciences (NMES) is hiring Scanning Assistants for the upcoming exam period. Scanning Assistants help with an NMES project to scan and process paper exams for marking on a digital platform. Working within a team of scanning assistants, this role involves organising paper exam scripts, scanning these in batches, and organising the resulting digital files. 



Qualifications

NONE



Skills

Supported by the NMES Faculty Technology Enhanced Learning team, this role requires a high degree of attention to detail, ability to follow multi-step processes, and communicate well in a group-managed project; candidates are welcome from any Faculty within the College. 

We are seeking a temporary Research Assistant to support a project led by Jo Underwood and The Policy Institute at King?s College London over the summer of 2025. The role will focus on drafting an initial report summarising preliminary findings from research conducted in 2024?25.

Project Overview:

  • The research examines how London?s local authorities process in-person homelessness applications.
  • FOI requests were submitted to all London boroughs by Jo and King?s Legal Clinic.
  • Additional qualitative research has included stakeholder interviews and a roundtable exploring the impact of closed in-person referrals on A&E departments.


Qualifications

Research Experience 



Skills

Key Responsibilities:

  • Conduct a short literature review on the impact of ?closed-door? local authority practices on:
    • People experiencing homelessness
    • A&E and emergency healthcare services
  • Review and quality-check existing data (FOIs, interviews, roundtable notes)
  • Draft a short-format report and/or public-facing outputs (e.g., blog posts, opinion pieces) to support future funding efforts
MORE JOBS LIKE THIS