Leicester City Council
Job title:
Fitness Instructor
Company
Leicester City Council
Job description
Part Time / 32 Hours Per Week / Fixed Term 4 Months covering internal progressionSports Services is recruiting for a motivated and customer focussed Fitness Instructor to join as part of the team that play a key role in transforming the Council’s approach to Sport, Leisure and Exercise. Working at one of our fantastic leisure centres across the City you will deliver inductions, sell memberships and engage with members to provide a safe, welcoming and motivating place to exercise.This is an exciting time to be joining Sport Services. After 3 years of delivering year on year improvements we now have in place ambitious plans to ‘step up the service’ to take us to the next level. Exciting plans for capital improvement have been approved and the Service is growing in confidence and ambition to continue the next phase of transformation and improvement.What you’ll be doingAs a Fitness Instructor, you’ll work with members to improve their 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 devise personal workout and fitness programmes. To ensure that the environment is kept clean you will be required to undertake remedial cleaning of fitness equipment. You’ll also be required to sell memberships and support new customers to sign up online.You’ll work with the General Manager, Assistant Manager and Leisure Centre Supervisor to ensure that appropriate fitness programmes are available for all those who use the gym.What you’ll needWith experience of working in a health and fitness environment, you’ll have a Level 2 Gym Instructor/Fitness Instructor qualification. You’ll have ability to provide the highest standard of customer service whilst ensuring the health and safety of customers. Using your excellent communication skills, you’ll be able to motivate and engage with members to increase participation in physical activity and verbally explain techniques as well as liaise effectively with other staff and centre users.What we can offer youAs 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.We’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 childcare vouchers, discounts on city buses and trains and help with relocation to Leicester, where appropriate. For an illustrative value of your benefits package, take a look at our .Join usWe’re committed to recruiting a diverse and highly-talented workforce as we continue to build a council that is fitting and representative of our great city. That’s why we’ve designed our recruitment process to put you at your ease, make you feel welcome and bring the best out of you. We’ll do all we can to make our recruitment process as fair as possible. To help you with your application, .For an informal discussion, or further information regarding this job please contact Jamie Pryor at
Expected salary
£12.38 per hour
Location
Leicester
Job date
Sun, 24 Nov 2024 07:09:56 GMT
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