Fitness Personal Trainer - Female Only (Focused on older...

Key Responsibilities

• Plan, deliver, and supervise safe, engaging, and effective sports training sessions in accordance with programme objectives and company standards.

• Assess participant fitness levels, sporting ability, movement quality, goals, and training needs to develop suitable individual and group programmes.

• Provide clear demonstrations, instructions, coaching cues, feedback, encouragement, and motivation throughout each training session.

• Adapt exercises, drills, activities, intensity, and training methods to accommodate different abilities, experience levels, fitness goals, and physical limitations.

• Deliver sports conditioning, strength and conditioning, mobility, flexibility, cardiovascular, agility, coordination, and performance training as required.

• Monitor participant performance, technique, attendance, progress, wellbeing, and response to training, maintaining accurate records where required.

• Maintain a professional, inclusive, supportive, and motivating training environment that promotes confidence, participation, health, and wellbeing.

• Ensure participants use appropriate techniques, equipment, clothing, footwear, and safety procedures during all activities.

• Inspect sports facilities, training areas, equipment, and supplies before and after sessions, reporting damage, defects, hazards, or maintenance requirements without delay.

• Set up, store, clean, and maintain sports equipment, training aids, facilities, and work areas in a safe, organised, and presentable condition.

• Recognise signs of injury, illness, fatigue, overtraining, or distress and respond appropriately in accordance with company procedures and relevant first aid guidance.

• Complete warm-ups, cool-downs, stretching, recovery activities, and injury prevention exercises appropriate to each session.

• Communicate professionally with participants, colleagues, managers, parents or guardians where applicable, and other relevant stakeholders.

• Protect participant privacy and handle personal, health, and performance information with confidentiality, care, and discretion.

• Comply with health and safety, safeguarding, equality, emergency response, incident reporting, risk assessment, and professional conduct procedures.

• Support sports events, assessments, competitions, promotional activities, group programmes, and other operational requirements as directed.

• Perform other duties as assigned by the Direct Manager.

Requirements

• Previous experience as a Sports Trainer, Personal Trainer, Fitness Instructor, Sports Coach, Athletic Trainer, Exercise Specialist, or in a similar role is preferred.

• Relevant qualification in sports coaching, personal training, sports science, exercise physiology, physical education, fitness, or a related discipline is an advantage.

• Knowledge of sports training principles, exercise programming, fitness assessment, warm-up and cool-down methods, conditioning, injury prevention, and performance development.

• Current first aid, CPR, safeguarding, health and safety, or equivalent certification is preferred.

• Ability to plan and deliver structured individual and group training sessions for participants with varying abilities and objectives.

• Strong communication, coaching, interpersonal, motivational, organisational, and time management skills.

• Ability to demonstrate exercises clearly, provide constructive feedback, and maintain participant engagement throughout each session.

• Strong understanding of safe exercise technique, equipment use, risk management, safeguarding, and participant wellbeing.

• Professional, approachable, reliable, patient, encouraging, and respectful at all times.

• Physically able to demonstrate exercises, participate in practical activities, stand, walk, bend, reach, lift, and handle sports equipment for extended periods.

• Ability to work independently and collaboratively, follow instructions, maintain accurate records, and meet scheduled training commitments.

• Ability to work flexible hours, including early mornings, evenings, weekends, public holidays, and special events when required by business operations.

• Commitment to promoting inclusive participation, positive sporting experiences, healthy lifestyles, and continuous participant development.