The Role

• Are you a friendly and confident communicator who enjoys meeting people and providing great service?
• Do you want to improve the health and fitness adults you meet?
• Then we need you to join our team!

Where you’ll be working
We currently have a vacancies at the following centres:

• Shene Sports & Fitness Centre, SW14 8AT
• Whitton Sports & Fitness Centre, TW2 6JW

What you’ll be doing

You’ll be part of our fitness team, providing professional and friendly tuition, carrying out inductions and designing personalised fitness programmes.

Making sure that all fitness suite users are kept in a safe and secure environment, delivering great customer service and ensuring the facilities are clean and safe so that every customer has a great experience.

You will also be responsible for maintenance / cleanliness procedures within the gym. 

Have a look at the job profile online  for full details on the varied role you can expect to be doing.

What we’ll need from you

We ask that you have a relevant fitness qualification for this role. A first aid qualification and some experience.

You’ll also have knowledge and experience of fitness testing, inductions and designing personalised exercise programmes.  Good customer care, financial, administrative, marketing and programming skills are essential. 

A key element of your job will be to develop the business as well as retaining existing customers. 

You’ll also need a good knowledge of Health & Safety issues and an understanding of Diversity and Equality in employment and provision of service. 

What we can offer you

£10.20 per hour (plus holiday pay allowance on top of this)

We’ll offer you casual shifts which might involve working daytime or evenings, this could be during the week and at weekends (depending on individual Centre opening hours).  Any shifts offered would be by mutual agreement, so you can always fit the work in around your other commitments.

We also offer membership of the Local Government contributory pension scheme.

Closing Date:  28/3/19 at midnight. We will contact you by email to let you know if you have been shortlisted or not.

Equality Statement

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to making our recruitment practices as inclusive as possible for everyone. We are committed to promoting equality and diversity and developing a culture that values differences, recognising that employees from a variety of backgrounds bring important and positive contributions to the Councils and can improve the way we deliver services.

We are pleased to be a Disability Confident employer.

Important Information:

This post is exempted under the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and as such appointment to this post will be conditional upon the receipt of a satisfactory response to a check of police records via Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS). The Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) helps employers make safer recruitment decisions and prevent unsuitable people from working with vulnerable groups, including children. It replaces the Criminal Records Bureau (CRB) and Independent Safeguarding Authority (ISA).

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and young people/vulnerable adults and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.

Richmond and Wandsworth Councils