Ultimate Survival Recruitment
A WILD SUMMER ADVENTURE AWAITS!
HIRING NOW FOR SUMMER 2025
Adventurers aged 7 to 14 years can go wild during the summer holidays with our Ofsted-registered Ultimate Survival programme. Spending time being fully immersed in the natural environment, outdoor summer day camps are fun and adventurous for both staff and children.
We are looking for candidates with heaps of enthusiasm for the outdoors and experience working with and caring for children of all ages! Don't worry, you don't need to be Bear Grylls... You bring the passion and we'll provide the training!
2025 VACANCIES:
Ultimate Survival Instructor
£108.28 - £137.87 per day (Including 12.07% Holiday Pay). As well as the additional 3 hours' pay for evening duties on Thursdays
The role of an Ultimate Survival Instructor is to use supporting resources to deliver high level (structured) outdoor activities and workshops to groups of children aged 7 to 14. You will be expected to guide groups of children through week-long (timetabled) courses with emphasis on fun, excitement, teamwork, and skill development. You will have a pastoral role in being a group leader and be a key contact for children on Camp while taking a lead in ensuring their welfare.
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Ultimate Survival Camp Leader
£132.44 - £149.48 per day (Including 12.07% Holiday Pay) As well as the additional 3 hours pay for evening duties on Thursdays
The role of the Ultimate Survival Camp Leader is to oversee the effective running of our Ultimate Survival courses. Along with your team of Ultimate Survival Instructors, you will deliver outstanding theatre-based, structured outdoor education activities and workshops to groups of children. If you have heaps of experience working with children in an outdoor setting and have worked in a senior or managerial role, this is the role for you!
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Senior Ultimate Survival Instructor (Roaming)
£108.80 – £149 per day (inclusive of 12.07% holiday pay) + 22p per mile, as well as the additional 3 hours pay for evening duties on Thursdays.
The Senior Ultimate Survival Instructor (Roaming) will not be assigned to any one site, but will instead travel from camp to camp, able to deliver a range of different activities and workshops and provide support to the Ultimate Survival staff teams when needed. As well as heaps of experience delivering a wide range of outdoor activities to children, flexibility is a must in this role, as you will be required to react quickly in an ever-changing camp environment!
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OUR UK ULTIMATE SURVIVAL LOCATIONS 2025:
Thriving independent girls day school set in the spectacular setting of Sandleford Priory, a beautiful listed building in 54 acres of parklands landscaped by "Capability" Brown.
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One of the country’s oldest prep schools set in 30 acres of leafy grounds on the borders of Bucks, Oxfordshire and Northamptonshire.
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Brentwood School is one of the UK’s leading independent day and boarding schools for boys and girls aged 3 – 18. With almost 500 years of history, the school is...
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Prior's Field School is a vibrant independent school with excellent facilities set in 23 acres of beautiful Surrey countryside near to the A3, M3 and M25.
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Chandlings Prep is an independent, co-educational day school; the school is situated just West of Oxford and offers first-class facilities and extensive grounds.
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Leading independent school with first class sports and outdoor grounds near Esher and just 10 minutes from the heart of Surbiton. Surbiton High Sports Ground offer extensive pitches, grounds and...
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Hill End Outdoor Centre is located in Farmoor just outside Oxford between the A40 and A34, and offers woodland and beautiful grounds in which to run our Ultimate Survival courses.
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A wonderful independent school on the south side of Reading with superb facilities including spacious grounds and a indoor heated swimming pool.
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Prior Park College is a mixed public school for both day and boarding students. Situated on a hill, set within a 57-acre site overlooking the World Heritage City of Bath...
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St Hugh’s is a thriving independent co-ed Prep school on the doorstep of the Cotswolds. Boasting incredible indoor facilities and impressive grounds for outdoor sport and activity space, St Hugh’s...
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Copthorne Prep School, on the Sussex and Surrey border, has a thriving nursery, pre-prep and prep school for children aged 2-13 with fantastic facilities to run our Easter and Summer...
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Join our Easter and summer camps at St. Edmund' School in Hindhead.
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Easter and summer activity camps at St. Albans High School for Girls Prep.
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With acres of outdoor space, woodland, and first-class indoor facilities, children will have the best holiday fun ever, enjoying this spacious London school. The school offers outstanding facilities and outdoor...
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Bath
Prior Park College
- Monday 3rd - Friday 14th August 2026
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Bedford
Bedford Modern School
- Monday 27th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Brackley
Beachborough School
- Monday 20th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Brentwood
Brentwood School
- Monday 27th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Faringdon (Oxfordshire)
St. Hugh's School
- Monday 27th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Godalming
Prior's Field School
- Monday 27th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Hindhead
St. Edmunds School
- Monday 3rd to Friday 21st August 2026
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Newbury
St. Gabriel's School
- Monday 20th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Oxford (Farmoor)
Hill End Outdoor Education Centre
- Monday 20th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Oxford (West)
Chandlings Prep School
- Monday 27th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Reading
St. Albans
St. Albans High School for Girls Prep
- Monday 27th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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Surbiton
Hinchley Wood Sports Ground (Surbiton High School)
- Monday 27th July to Friday 21st August 2026
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NEW! Bromley (Mottingham)
Eltham College
To be confirmed.....
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Each week there’s a different theme (see below), offering variety no matter what day the children attend. Each day you will instruct inspiring survival skills, group challenges and games with the added theatre of different scenarios.
Island Expedition | 2025
Whilst voyaging across the Indian Ocean, our survivors came across an island that couldn’t be found on any of their maps. What could be ashore... a paradise island or buried treasure?
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Rainforest Evacuation | 2025
Our survivors are parachuting into the Australian Rainforest after their aircraft suffers an extremely rare, DOUBLE engine failure. Luckily all escape unscathed, but for our survivors, this leap of faith is only the beginning.
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CAMP COOK OUT
On select weeks and specific locations we offer children an extra dose of adventure with our Thursday Camp Cook Out option packed with survival team games, campfire dinner, toasted marshmallows and optional bug-eating challenges!
- Every Thursday
- Activities 5.15 pm until 8:30, collect 8:30-9 pm
- Food provided (vegan and gluten-free)
- Available at selected locations for selected week. Summer 2024 locations will be confirmed in the New Year
