Sector Careers Focus - Exercise, Fitness and Leisure Operations

"Leisure is progressing into more health and wellbeing and looking to develop things within the community"

Michael Lidwell Everyone Active Communities Manager

Roles in Exercise, Fitness and Leisure Operations are far more diverse than you think. Our venues across LLR offer more recognised roles including lifeguards and personal trainers, but did you know there are opportunities to develop communities, support people with long term health conditions and promote the use of facilities.

Listen to those working in the sector and hear first hand about how the the industry is reaching out to our communities:

Available rolls include:

Part time Lifeguard roles with Fusion

Swimming Teacher roles with Fusion

Sports Assistant/ Lifeguard with University of Leicester

Team Leader with Fusion

CIMSPA, the Chartered Institute for the Management of Sport and Physical Activity, breaks the sector down into the following sub-sectors (the info graphic includes examples of local employing organisations within each sub-sector):

Interested in a specific sub-sector? Then check out the additional films in Section 1 of the Careers & Job Finder web page:

Professional and Community Sport

Adventure Sport and Health & Wellbeing

The wider sector – includes national sports organisations based at SportPark Loughborough, as well as inspiration from the Sports Technology Institute.

These films have been created for:

• Individuals new to the world of work, through to people with many years' experience in other sectors.
• Careers advisers, tutors, teachers, employers and employees.
• Parents/carers, supporters and friends of people interested in finding out more.

The films and the wider careers resources can be found on this web page: https://www.active-together.org/careers

If you would like to discuss how you can utilise these resources further, please contact Luke Green (Workforce Development Officer) at l.green@active-together.org