Overview
Fitness Instructor – Sutherland Building, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear, NE1 8ST, GB
Salary: £25,878 (pro rata)
Work hours: Shift Working, Part Time
Job Description
ABOUT THE ROLE
As a Fitness Instructor, you’ll play a key role in the daily operation of Sport Central’s gym by providing a welcoming and safe experience for our customers . You’ll deliver a range of fitness appointments, including gym inductions, health assessments, as well as leading high-quality fitness classes to our members.
This is a customer-facing role, so you’ll be actively engaging with members as well as supporting operational tasks as needed. Good knowledge of all Northumbria Sport products and services is essential.
Further information is available in the job description.
This is a part-time position, working 7.4 hours per week.
ABOUT THE TEAM
Reporting directly to the Duty Manager, the role will join Northumbria Sport, a core department within Campus Services. Northumbria Sport is responsible for delivering an excellent student experience through our range of sport, fitness and wellbeing programmes.
The role will be based at Sport Central at Northumbria University’s City Campus.
ABOUT YOU
To be successful in the role you will have:
- Excellent verbal communication skills
- Experience of delivering customer service excellence in a busy gym environment
- Qualified to instruct at least 3 different Group Exercise Classes
- Knowledge of how to set, monitor and evaluate Health & Fitness goals
- A good understanding of how to behave appropriately with members and colleagues
Further information is available in the person specification.
If you would like an informal discussion about the role, please contact Alan Caveney, Duty Manager.
To apply for this vacancy please click ‘Apply Now’. Your application should include a covering letter and a CV.
ABOUT US
Join Northumbria University, a research-intensive institution unlocking potential and changing lives locally and globally. Named Times Higher Education’s University of the Year in 2022 and Modern University of the Year in 2025, we rank top 25 in the UK for research power. Discover more about us.
With over 37,000 students from over 140 countries, we offer world-leading research, award-winning partnerships, and an outstanding student experience. We empower our exceptional staff, promoting a positive work-life balance and offering great benefits, including excellent pension schemes, flexible working, generous holiday entitlement and more.
Our Northumbria Values, co-created by our team, define who we are: Academic Excellence, Innovation, Inclusivity, Collaboration, and Ambition. Our Behaviours shape our work culture: We listen and learn, support one another, respect everyone, trust each other, and are bold.
Based in Newcastle upon Tyne and London, we are an on-campus organisation and offer flexible hours and location where the role allows. We pride ourselves on diversity and inclusivity, holding numerous awards for gender and race equality, disability confidence, and research excellence. We also hold the HR Excellence in Research award for implementing the concordat supporting the career Development of Researchers and are members of the Euraxess initiative to deliver information and support to professional researchers. The University has implemented a range of flexible working arrangements, and we are happy to explore candidate requirements as part of the recruitment process.
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