Elite Sport Caretaker-Lilleshall

Elite Sport Caretaker

Location: Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, Newport, Shropshire, TF10 9AT.
Salary: £26,500 to £28,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Schedule: Part time 16 hours per week, flexible to work different shifts including earlies, lates, weekends and bank holidays. 

Ready to impact a better future?

As an Elite Sport Caretaker in our Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, you’ll help create and maintain a world-class training environment for elite athletes at one of the UK’s leading National Sports Centres. Your work will ensure training facilities remain clean, safe, well-presented and ready for use, supporting athletes as they strive to achieve their goals.

At Lilleshall National Sports and Conferencing Centre, our work touches lives at every level of sport – from emerging talent to Olympic athletes. By maintaining exceptional standards across the British Gymnastics and GB Archery facilities, you’ll play an important role in supporting high-performance sport while helping us deliver a positive impact on athletes, visitors and the wider sporting community.

What you’ll do as an Elite Sport Caretaker

• Maintain elite training facilities to exceptional cleaning and presentation standards at all times
• Ensure facilities are safe, prepared and fully operational for athletes, coaches and visitors
• Carry out routine maintenance, equipment checks and general upkeep activities
• Follow reporting procedures to identify and escalate maintenance, safety or facility issues
• Build positive working relationships with athletes, coaches, governing body representatives and colleagues
• Support the delivery of a world-class environment that enables high-performance sporting achievement

Does this sound like you?

• Experience in a cleaning, caretaking, facilities or similar operational role, or the ability to demonstrate relevant capability
• Strong attention to detail and commitment to maintaining high standards
• Good communication and customer care skills
• Awareness of health and safety responsibilities within a busy environment
• Ability to use initiative, complete records accurately and work independently when required
• A genuine interest in being part of a high-performance sporting environment and contributing to positive outcomes

What we offer

• Holidays: 20 days, 21 days after 1 years’ service + bank hols
• Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
• Free Gym membership
• Staff meal, physio discounts
• Serco discounts which include cinema, merlin entertainment, online shopping,
  mobile phone plans and leisure centre memberships.
• Interesting, varied, and enjoyable work
• A company that recognises your contribution
• All Leisure Benefits - Trust and Serco Leisure Employee Benefits
• colleagues including veterans, LGBTQIA+ employees, women, parents and carers, people with disabilities, and people from all cultural backgrounds.

Let’s impact a better future, together. Apply today.

A little bit about us:
At Serco, everyone plays a vital part in delivering essential public services that make a real difference. As a global team of 50,000 people across Defence, Transport, Justice, Immigration, Healthcare, Leisure and Citizen Services, we’re united by a shared purpose: to improve the services that communities rely on. Guided by our values of Trust, Care, Innovation and Pride, our people make meaningful impact, every single day.

Our inclusive recruitment commitment:
We prioritise your skills and potential. As a Disability Confident Leader, the Top Great British Employer of Veterans 2026, and a Gold Inclusive Employer Standard holder, we champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
• Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).

For support with your application, please contact recruitmentuk@serco.com.