Casual Hours
Are you a Personal Trainer who can deliver motivating and engaging sessions for all ages and ability levels?
Active Leicester have Casual Personal Trainers across leisure centres in the city. This is an exciting opportunity for a suitably qualified casual, Personal Trainer who wants to help grow and develop our fitness programmes. Join us as a Casual Personal Trainer and you’ll become a valued member of our highly motivated, passionate, and dynamic team..
This opportunity is to join us as a Casual Personal Trainer. As a casual worker, you’ll benefit from working as many shifts as you would like on an ad hoc basis but will be dependent on the programme of classes/session that are scheduled. Shifts may be during the day and evening, from Monday to Sunday.
You’ll be based at one of the leisure centres but have the flexibility to work across the various sites.
The rate of pay is £10.60 - £11.70 per hour. This post has been awarded a temporary market supplement therefore the hourly rate of pay will be £13.50 per hour.
What you’ll be doing
As a Casual Personal Trainer, you’ll work closely with the leisure centre teams to deliver 1-2-1 sessions to Active Leicester members, ensuring you create a safe and welcoming environment for physical activity. You’ll prepare activity space, set up and dismantle necessary equipment before and after sessions. You’ll develop and supervise a programme of exercise, assess the fitness levels of participants, and provide expert advice to users of the service. You’ll play a key role in expanding the health and fitness offering at Active Leicester and help deliver our vision.
What you’ll need
With an appropriate level 2 award in Group Exercise e.g., Exercise to Music, Group Cycling, Bootcamp etc, you’ll have previous instructing experience. You’ll have a good understanding of devising and delivering engaging group exercise classes for participants of varying abilities and from a variety backgrounds and cultures. Alongside a passion for physical activity, you’ll demonstrate a knowledge of the barriers to participation and how these can be overcome to increase participant engagement. Using excellent communication skills, you’ll deliver high levels of customer service and be able to appropriately deal with irate or distressed customers. You’ll be able to motivate and encourage members of all ages to ensure everyone feels confident within your sessions.
For an informal discussion please contact Stacey Hope on 01164541218 stacey.hope@leicester.gov.uk
This is an open advert therefore we will complete the short-listing soon after receiving your application. If short-listed, you'll be called for an assessment and/or interview thereafter.