Fitness Advisor

**Location**

Long Stratton Leisure Centre, Swan Lane, Long Stratton, NR15 2UY

**Application Deadline**

Sunday, June 30, 2024

**Salary Band**

Band A - £21,100 - £21,960

**Job Summary**

**Job Title:
Fitness Advisor

**Salary Range and Hours:
£21,100 - £21, 960 per annum *

37 hours per week

**Contract Type**:
Permanent

**Location**:
Long Stratton Leisure Centre, Long Stratton, NR15 2UY

**Other Key Information**:
You will be working shift patterns, including evenings and weekends
- We are currently participating in our national pay negotiations with the trade unions (UNISON). As an organisation we are also committed to being a Real Living Wage employer, meaning all of our staff are paid a minimum of £12 per hour which equates to £23,151 per annum and this forms part of these negotiations. Our advertised salary bands will be updated when formal negotiations are completed.

**Do you have as much enthusiasm as our customers?**

**Role Snapshot **

Do you enjoy fitness, wellbeing and thrive on being part of busy team working a range of shifts and dealing with the public? Do you want to work in a modern setting with latest equipment? Then read on...

**What you could be part of**

Long Stratton Leisure Centre boasts an 80-station state of the art gym, 10 station E-GYM, with a studio, café, soft play, multi-functional sports hall, and a 9-a-side 3G pitch. You will be joining a hard-working and passionate team and delivering a high standard service to our members. The role is highly customer focused and very rewarding as you will be a big part of assisting members with achieving their goals and creating gym plans tailored to these. You will also be instructing classes and creating a fun and motivating environment for our members.

Working at the Council enables you to be part of an organisation which is proud to deliver high-quality, customer focussed services. Our success comes from us being commercially astute and business-like. Continuous improvement is also vital and we challenge ourselves to develop new and innovative ways to improve the services that make a real difference to people’s lives. You will be joining a dependable and reliable fitness team here at Long Stratton Leisure Centre who is passionate in delivering the best service to our customers.

**What you’ll be doing **
- Supervising the gym area
- Undertaking gym inductions and gym programmes
- Delivering E-GYM inductions
- Setting up activities within the centre such as badminton, football, fitness classes etc
- Instructing classes (wherever necessary and qualification dependant)
- Assisting with centre tours and membership sales
- Assisting Front of House team at reception and on Café
- Ensuring the centre is well run, clean and ready for business.

**You must have **

**Essential Criteria**

**Essential Skills
Level 2 gym instruction qualification

Good communication skills

Ability to work a combination of early, late and weekend shifts

Ability to instruct circuits and other classes qualification dependant

Interest in Fitness and Leisure and to motivate and encourage people through fitness

Excellent customer service skills

**What’s in it for you**

**Why Work For Us?**

Do you want to know more about why our staff work for us? Our website has a fantastic why work for us section where our staff tell us what makes working for the Councils so special.

**Where Are We Located?**

Plan your travel route and find out where the Centre sites are located?

Our website has an amazing interactive map showing all our Centre sites and the travel and route plan for each.

**What Roles Do the Councils Offer?**

The Councils operate a vast and diverse number of services for our residents, so with this comes a vast and diverse amount of job roles within the Councils. Our website has a great graphic showing all our job families and roles within the Councils. From here you can plan your career with the Councils or get some ideas on other roles that you may be interested in.

**What Benefits do our Employees Receive?**

View all our amazing staff benefits on offer for our employees. Our website has a brilliant benefits section allowing you to see the range of discounts, exclusive offers and total rewards our employees receive. Make sure you stop by to find out more information.

**What Employer Accreditations do we Hold?**

The Councils have a range of employer accreditations that we have worked very hard to achieve. Our website has a full descriptive list of all our current accreditations and what this means for our employees.

**What Wellbeing Support do our Staff Have Access to?**

The Councils want to ensure all our employees have a safe comfortable place to work, ensuring that employees feel empowered to actively manage their own wellbeing both at work and at home. The Councils have a large wellbeing section available on the website outlining our commitment to the wellbeing of the employees of the Council.

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