Leisure Centre Deputy Area Manager

Job description

Contract terms

Starting salary: PO6 (£54,267 – £57,402)
Work location: 4 Leisure Centres within Haringey Borough (Tottenham Green, Park Road, Broadwater Farm, New River Sports Centre)
Hours per week: 36 per week
Contract type: Permanent
Closing date: Sunday, 30th September 2026 at 23:59
Expected interview date: W/c 14th September 2026

About Haringey

Haringey is a fantastic place to live and work – the world in one borough. A place brimming with creativity, personality, radicalism, and community. It is a place where we stand up for each other. A place that is proudly distinctive. We’ll be celebrating all this and more as the “rebel borough” when we are the 2027 London Borough of Culture.

Our history champions change-makers and everyday rebels; revelling in our differences, battling discrimination, championing equality, and doing things our own way. Haringey’s people are a huge asset, with knowledge, expertise, and passion. Our staff members embody our organisational values: Caring, Creative, Courageous, Collaborative and Community-focused. These values keep us looking forward, ambitious for the future, and continuously striving to do our very best for all of our residents.

About the role

We are looking for an experienced and motivated Deputy Area Manager Leisure Centres to help lead the delivery of high-quality leisure services across Haringey. Reporting to the Area Manager, you will oversee the operational performance of multiple leisure facilities, managing Leisure Centre Managers and ensuring centres are safe, welcoming, inclusive and commercially successful. This is a varied leadership role focused on improving customer experience, increasing participation in physical activity, supporting community wellbeing and reducing health inequalities across the borough.

About the team

You will join a passionate Leisure Services team dedicated to helping residents lead healthier and more active lives. Working closely with Centre Managers, Facilities Management, Health and Safety, Finance, Communications and a wide range of community stakeholders, you will contribute to the ongoing development and success of Haringey’s leisure provision. From driving operational excellence and staff development to supporting major improvement projects and partnerships, you will play a key role in delivering services that make a real impact on local communities.

About you

You will bring significant experience in the operational management of leisure facilities and have a proven ability to lead teams across multiple sites. A strong communicator with excellent organisational, customer service and problem-solving skills, you will be confident managing performance, budgets, recruitment and stakeholder relationships. Commercially aware and committed to service excellence, you will be passionate about creating inclusive environments, increasing participation and ensuring every visitor receives an outstanding experience.

Working for Haringey

At Haringey Council we are committed to creating a workplace culture where all our people feel valued, included, and able to be their best at work, and we recognise the benefits of a diverse workforce so welcome applications from all ethnicities and communities so that we continue to make a difference to our residents and community.  Our benefits package includes a leave entitlement of 31 days + bank holidays, potential hybrid working opportunities, health and wellbeing support, a generous local government pension scheme and a range of discount schemes across leisure and culture that provide both financial and money-saving discounts.

Please note: we reserve the right to end this advert before the noted deadline if we receive sufficient applications. If you wish to apply for this role, please ensure that you do so as soon as possible.  

Additionally, we are aware that automated emails may be diverted through to junk email folders.  Please continue to check these through the application process.  If you have any questions about the status of your application, please contact ResourcingHub@haringey.gov.uk