Activity Leader Group Fitness

Job description and person specification

Salary: £25,453 per annum

Hours: Full time, 37 hours per week

Location: Active Luton Centres

As an Activity Leader Group Fitness, you’ll support the delivery, coordination and quality of group fitness programmes across Active Luton’s centres. Working closely with the Group Gym & Fitness Manager, you’ll help ensure the smooth running of fitness activities, support instructors, and contribute to creating a positive and engaging experience for our customers. This hands‑on role involves working in a busy environment, preparing equipment, monitoring safety and delivering excellent customer service.

• Supervising and supporting group fitness instructors to deliver high-quality and safe fitness sessions.
• Assisting in the coordination and administration of group fitness programmes, including data management and customer retention activities.
• Ensuring all operational activity meets health and safety standards, centre policies and legal requirements.
• Preparing equipment and activity areas, ensuring they are clean, safe and well maintained.
• Engaging with customers, responding to enquiries and providing feedback to management teams.
• Contributing to the promotion and visibility of all Active Luton activities and programmes.
• Supporting with the monitoring of safety and intervening when required.

We’re seeking someone enthusiastic, organised and customer-focused, with experience working in a leisure environment and supporting group activities. You’ll be comfortable working within established procedures, engaging positively with the public and taking responsibility for safety.

• Experience working in a leisure environment and supporting group fitness or activity sessions.
• Experience in a customer‑focused role.
• Ability to communicate politely and effectively with a wide range of people.
• Ability to follow established procedures and maintain accurate records.
• Basic IT skills, including email and word processing.
• Some knowledge of Health & Safety in group fitness.
• Level 2 coaching/teaching qualification.
• Ability to safely handle and move activity equipment.

• Free swimming and heavily discounted gym membership
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee assistance programme

Shift-based working across opening hours (details provided at interview).

Please submit your CV and covering letter only via the link provided. Applications submitted elsewhere or incomplete will not be considered.

05/01/2026. We reserve the right to close this advertisement early if we receive a high volume of suitable applicants.

Applicants must be willing to undergo child/vulnerable adult protection screening appropriate to the post, which may include checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

Active Luton embraces diversity and inclusion, and promotes equality of opportunity in employment and volunteering, and across all the services we provide. As a Disability Confident Committed employer we offer a guaranteed interview scheme for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria for the role. If you would like to access this scheme, please make this clear to us when you apply.

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and require all colleagues and volunteers to share this commitment. Applicants must be willing to undergo child/vulnerable adult protection screening appropriate to the post, which may include checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.