Details
1100420
University of Leicester
15/09/2025
Other - See Job
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Smart Casual
Pay
£13.15
£1.59
Description
Role
Working as a member of a small team the Active Life Advisors contribute to the delivery of the Sport & Active Life service within the Sports Centre and associated facilities.
Specifically, to provide instruction, support, advice, and encouragement to customers using the gym within the Sports Centre to help them maximise the effectiveness of their fitness activities. Carry out inductions, design fitness programmes, answer enquiries and generate reports on gym usage. Monitor, manage, clean and where appropriate, maintain the fitness equipment within the gym.
Hours and days: As required as per the requirements of the Sports Centre
Duties and responsibilities
- Conduct individual and group inductions, provide fitness advice to customers and in consultation with customers, provide personal training programmes for them.
- Welcome members to the gym, control access, provide information and complete general gym administrative tasks.
- Implement successfully on a day-to-day basis the operational Health & Safety regime established within the facilities, including pool responder duties. On a day-to-day basis, clean designated activity areas and equipment to a required standard.
- Maintain effective supervision to ensure high levels of health and safety.
Skills and experience
- Recognised certified fitness qualification equivalent to REPS level 2*
- Experience of working within a customer service environment
- IT literate across the range of MS Office programmes
- Current University of Leicester
*We will be unable to accept applicants who do not have a current Level 2 gym/fitness qualification
Location
Danielle Brown Sports Centre
Additional information
How to apply
Please ensure you apply with a tailored covering letter and CV indicating why you consider yourself suitable for the role.
Closing date for applications Monday 1st September at 23:59pm*
*Due to the volume of applications we receive, any indicated closing date is subject to change at the hiring managers discretion. Please ensure if you are interested in a position, you apply at the earliest available opportunity.
This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 because the appointee will have substantial access to young and/or vulnerable adults. Therefore, an appointment to this post will be subject to checking through the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The successful applicant for this post will, therefore, be required to give consent for the University to check and obtain appropriate clearance with the DBS for the existence and content of any criminal record in the form of an enhanced DBS check.
Information received from the DBS and the police will be kept in strict confidence and will be destroyed once the University is satisfied in this regard.
Please note
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Careers Service Support
It may be useful to complete My Skills Portfolio to help you assess and understand the transferable skills you already have which can be applied to your application.
If you are looking for further support with your application including how to write a CV or Cover Letter, please visit the University of Leicester Careers and Employability Service webpages HERE. We would encourage you to attend an application coaching appointment, and these can be booked via MyCareers, or in person in the Career Hub, David Wilson Library.
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