Senior Fitness Instructor - Maternity Cover

Contractual hours: 18.5 per week

Role Overview

The Gym Staff/Fitness Instructor is responsible for ensuring the smooth and safe operation of gym and wider Centre for Sport facilities. This includes:

• Supervising users,
• Enforcing Health & Safety and facility regulations,
• Delivering fitness support services such as inductions and personal programmes.

Key Responsibilities

Operational Duties

• Supervise gym users and equipment to ensure safe usage.
• Implement and follow Normal Operating Procedures (NOPs) and Emergency Action Plans (EAPs).
• Enforce regulations to protect the Health & Safety of all facility users.
• Provide Centre Assistant support when required (e.g., during breaks, absences, or peak times).

Customer Engagement & Support

• Conduct gym inductions for new members.
• Design and deliver Personal Exercise Programmes
• Support Health Awareness

Maintenance & Reporting

• Assist with the maintenance of gym equipment.
• Report any health and safety hazards to the Operations Manager.

Skills, Knowledge & Attributes

• Strong understanding of gym safety protocols, NOPs, and EAPs.
• Experience in providing fitness instruction and customer service.
• Ability to design exercise programmes for a variety of users (e.g., students, athletes).
• Relevant fitness qualifications (e.g., Level 2 Gym Instructor, Level 3 Personal Trainer).
• Experience supporting community health initiatives.

About you

Are you a natural leader with motivational skills and able to support, guide and encourage others in the team to achieve individual and team objectives whilst demonstrating respect for others, fairness, equality, tolerance and openness.  Can you plan and organise to achieve results as well as prioritise?

You will need these attributes –

• Must have a flexible approach to working hours.
• Must be able to work alone, but also as part of a wider team.
• An appreciation for the confidentiality involved in Fitness Instruction.
• An ability to demonstrate initiative and motivation.
• An understanding of equal opportunities.

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates. 

Add your individuality to ours

UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community.

We particularly encourage applications from global majority and as a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact

Helen Wickham or Tom Werrett on 0117 3286200 or email: helen3.wickham@uew.ac.uk

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay Campus in August.

This is a part time, permanent post, working 18.5 hours per week for up to 1 year in duration.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University, this role is therefore campus based for all of your time.

To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines.

This post requires enhanced DBS clearance.

We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.

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