Casual Health and Fitness Assistant

Make a Difference in Lancaster
Join us as a Health & Fitness Assistant and play a vital role in promoting health and wellbeing across our community. You’ll help members achieve their fitness goals by delivering safe, professional, and engaging fitness programmes, while maintaining welcoming and well-kept facilities. Your work supports Lancaster City Council’s commitment to safeguarding, equal opportunities, and a healthier, more active community.

What You’ll Be Doing
You’ll engage with members through outreach, events, and social media, creating a friendly and motivating atmosphere. Delivering fitness classes and small group sessions, you’ll ensure safety and professionalism at all times. You’ll also handle membership sales, conduct inductions and assessments, maintain equipment, and support the smooth running of the health and fitness service through administrative tasks.

You’ll Fit Right In If…
You hold a Gym Instructor Level 2 qualification (or equivalent) and have experience working on a busy gym floor. You’re passionate about safe exercise, have excellent communication skills, and enjoy building positive relationships. Being friendly, reliable, and flexible to work evenings and weekends will help you thrive here. You’ll share our values of Working Together, Ambition, Pride, and Ownership, contributing to a supportive and inclusive team. Please note, this role requires an enhanced DBS check.

Ready to Join Us?
If you’re excited to make a real difference in our community and grow your career in health and fitness, we’d love to hear from you. Find out more about what it’s like working with us, our benefits, values and culture, by visiting lancaster.gov.uk/sites/recruitment.

Why Work With Us

Our Benefits
• Generous annual leave
• Local Government Pension Scheme
• Discounted gym membership
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Car purchase scheme
• Lifestyle savings
• Health Care Cash Plan
• Volunteering days
• Wellbeing support

Flexible working friendly
We welcome discussions about flexible working and may be able to offer hybrid working, a generous flexi-time scheme, and agreed working hours to support work–life balance. This is a casual role.

Inclusive employer
We welcome applications from all parts of the community and are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone is treated with dignity and respect.
We guarantee interviews for applicants with a disability and armed forces veterans who meet the essential criteria.

Local Government Reorganisation
The Government has confirmed that local government across Lancashire will be reorganised, with the current 15 councils being replaced by four new unitary councils covering North, South, East and West Lancashire from April 2028.
If you are successful in your application, you will initially join Lancaster City Council. However, as part of the planned transition, your employment will transfer to one of the new unitary councils from April 2028, subject to the implementation of the reorganisation and relevant employment legislation.
Throughout this period, our focus remains on delivering excellent services to our communities. By joining us now, you'll play an important role in shaping the future of local government and helping to build a strong new organisation that will serve residents for years to come.