Concierge

About Us  

GLL, based in Reading, United Kingdom, is a leading not-for-profit leisure operator providing high-quality sports, fitness, and community services. We manage leisure centres, gyms, swimming pools, and community programmes that promote health, wellbeing, and active lifestyles. Our Reading team focuses on service delivery, facility management, and customer engagement, ensuring inclusive and accessible opportunities for all. Committed to community impact, innovation, and operational excellence, GLL combines expertise with a customer-focused approach. By delivering engaging leisure experiences, we support physical and mental wellbeing, foster social inclusion, and contribute positively to the local community while promoting healthy and active living.

Culture & Work Environment  

Our culture values teamwork, inclusivity, and professionalism. Employees at GLL Reading work in a supportive and dynamic environment that encourages learning, collaboration, and initiative. Respect, accountability, and community focus underpin our workplace, empowering staff to deliver high-quality leisure services while developing skills and contributing positively to the wellbeing of the community.

Why Work With Us 

Joining GLL provides opportunities to build a rewarding career in leisure, health, and community services. We offer training, career progression, and exposure to diverse operational and customer-focused roles. Employees contribute to community engagement, promote active lifestyles, and work in a collaborative environment dedicated to service excellence and positive impact.

Website: www.gll.org

Job description

GLL is looking for a Concierge at Palmer Park Leisure Centre in Reading. If you have the passion for people and the ability to deliver a first-class customer service experience, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than just a Concierge job, it’s a career.

As a Concierge, you’ll enjoy making a difference to every person who walks through our centres, be it with your warm welcome or through selling them a membership to enhance their lifestyle. Our Concierges respond to enquiries, converting them into memberships. Concierges are often a customer’s first port of call; you’ll answer the phone, deal with transactions, handle any queries, and even go out into the community on outreach projects. From providing team support to the warmest of welcomes, your focus will be on ensuring our customer service level is at the highest level at all times.

What you’ll do:
• Be the first point of call for customers.
• Answer incoming calls to the centre.
• Deal with transactions including setting up direct debits and cash handling.
• Handle membership enquiries, including selling memberships to customers.
• Deliver first-class customer service.
• Answer customer queries.
• Set up equipment.
• Be a key support to your team on a daily basis, from preparing studios, gyms, or sports halls for various activities to the general cleaning and upkeep of the centre.

What you need:
• A can-do attitude.
• A real focus on customer service.
• Passion and personality.
• Knowledge of health and safety.
• Be a great team player.
• Good IT, literacy, numerical, and communication skills.
• Some experience of administration.
• Cash handling experience.

As a leader within the leisure industry, we can also offer scope to progress your career and job variety like nowhere else.

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!

The basics:
• This is a Flexible position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service; flexible working may be possible. Working from home is not possible in this role.
• We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry-leading rates of pay.
• We can offer a career, not just a job, with extensive Learning & Development support available.
• A uniform will be supplied and must be worn.
• GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in.
• As a staff-owned organisation, you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business.

Additionally, GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:
• Access to a pension scheme.
• Health Assurance and access to Counselling services.
• Access to the tax-efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.
• Free annual eye tests.
• Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!

GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:
• The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you.
• Access to team building and fun events such as treks, concerts, outings, etc.
• Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet.

About GLL:

As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries, and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer two different types of work arrangements:
• A permanent employment contract – part time and full time.
• A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool.

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7-day-a-week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support, or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects, and people and are Investors in People Gold Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications, and location.

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