Health & Fitness Instructor

Active Leicester are currently recruiting for part-time and casual vacancies at their Cossington and Spence Street Sports Centres. Hours of work will be discussed at interview stages.

What you'll be doing

Working at one of Leicester's fantastic leisure centres your day-to-day activities will include delivering inductions, selling memberships, and engaging with members to provide a safe, welcoming, and motivating place to exercise. You'll play an integral role in improving members physical health and wellbeing by offering training plans, which include fitness assessments, prescribing lifestyle changes, dietary considerations and health and fitness development. You'll deliver inductions for all new members as well as forming close relationships with current members to understand their end goals to devise personal workout and fitness programmes to help them achieve this. In addition, to ensure that the environment is kept clean you'll be required to undertake remedial cleaning of fitness equipment. Working closely with the General Manager, Assistant Manager and Leisure Centre Supervisor you'll ensure that appropriate fitness programmes are available for all those who use the gym.

What you'll need

You'll hold a Level 2 Gym Instructor/Fitness Instructor qualification and will have experience of working in a health and fitness environment. With the ability to provide the highest standard of customer care, you'll ensure health and safety of customers is at the forefront of your mind. Using excellent verbal communication skills, you'll be able to effectively explain techniques to other members of staff and the centre users. Your passion and commitment to health and fitness will drive you to motivate and engage members to increase participation in physical activity.

Join Active Leicester

They are committed to recruiting a diverse and highly talented workforce to continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of the great city. That's why they've designed a recruitment process to put you at ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. They will do all they can to make the recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, take a look at their 'approach to recruitment' page.

What Active Leicester can offer you

As well as the satisfaction of helping to improve thousands of lives across Leicester, you can look forward to a work environment that encourages a healthy work/life balance. You'll enjoy generous annual leave, membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme and the option of flexible working. They'll also give you the chance to develop your skills and expertise with a variety of training and development opportunities. In addition, you can choose from a number of flexible benefits, including discounts on city buses and trains. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at the benefits calculator.

There are a number of instructor roles available with hours included below:

• Part Time / 32 Hours Per Week / Permanent
• Part Time / 28 Hours Per Week / Permanent
• Casual / 0 Hours Per Week / Casual