The opportunity

Cardiff Met Sport is the driving force behind sport, physical activity, health & wellbeing in Wales’ Capital City. Our mission is clear – ‘to profoundly enhance the lives of our communities, making them healthier and stronger as an outcome of engaging with us’. We work in partnership with a range of local, regional, and national partners to develop and manage sector leading sport facilities including, the National Indoor Athletics Centre, Tennis Centre, and Archers Arena on our Cyncoed Campus along with a number of 21st Century Schools across the City. We also strategically lead the delivery of a wide variety of cutting-edge development programmes across schools, communities, clubs, workforce, and health & wellbeing both on our campuses and throughout Cardiff. To continue to achieve all of this, we need ‘game changers’, people with drive, passion, creativity, and flair who see hurdles rather than problems, can think differently and want to make a positive and lasting impact on people’s lives, in Wales and beyond.
As a Fitness Instructor, you will assist the Active Lifestyles Manager in the efficient, effective, and economic delivery of services and the utilisation of resources to fulfil the requirements of Met Active and Cardiff Met Sport.

Under the direction of the Active Lifestyles Manager, you will ensure the Met Active facilities and associated areas, the sports programme and service delivery are of the highest standard during all hours.

You will be an enthusiastic and friendly professional with excellent communication and interpersonal skills, coupled with a commitment to providing an excellent experience to Cardiff Met students, staff and external users of the facilities.

Main duties will include:

To assist the Health and Fitness Manager in implementing training, fitness testing, personal fitness programmes, and ensuring the needs of students, staff, disabled groups, and external users are met. Providing a presence and clear responsibility for the Centres, the equipment, and the customers during hours of duty. To be responsible for daily cleaning, and routine checks / maintenance of the fitness equipment and to carry out spot cleaning within the Centres and associated areas as required. To deliver / instruct fitness classes in conjunction with the fitness class timetable. To provide support to the Active Lifestyles Manager in delivering and promoting healthy university initiatives. To assist the Duty Managers in the implementation of the sport programme, ensuring the needs of students, staff and external users are met on both the Cyncoed and the Llandaff Campuses. To promote the Sports & Fitness Membership and to issue memberships to students, staff, and external customers.

What we are looking for

REPS / CIMSPA Level 2 Qualification. Experience of working within a Health and Fitness environment. Experience in delivering fitness classes. A good understanding of customer care and health and safety. Ability to work equally comfortably as part of a team and independently. Effective communication and time management skills. Good organisational skills.

Why join Cardiff Metropolitan University?

In , the University was named The Sunday Times ‘Welsh University of the Year ’; in it became the Times Higher Education ‘UK and Ireland University of the Year ’; and in it was ranked the top university in the UK in the People and Planet Green League.

Our Met Sport team has a strong reputation across Cardiff and Wales wide for delivering high quality and impactful services to enable an excellent experience for the community, students, and staff. We believe our employees are our biggest asset and we see investing in talent as vital to sustainable growth and success. We are therefore committed to improving and developing our colleagues and offer a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities.

In addition, the University offers highly competitive terms and conditions including:

Annual leave of 25 days, rising to 30 days after 1 years’ service, plus 12 bank holiday / concessionary days (pro rata if part time). Membership of the Local Government Pension Scheme with generous contributions. Flexible and remote working opportunities. Excellent family friendly policies. Award winning sports and fitness facilities with subsidised membership, plus subsidised physiotherapy/complementary therapy/sports massage. Access to all library facilities. Salary sacrifice schemes including cycle to work. Free family access to our independent specialist wellbeing support provider, Health Assured.

If you would like to talk with us about this opportunity please contact Rhodri Williams, Active Lifestyles Manager at or phone .

Should a high volume of applications be received, we may need to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as early as possible.

The University is committed to creating a highly inclusive culture. We offer family friendly and flexible working arrangements and a range of staff networks, forums and events to support and develop our people. We warmly welcome applications from those traditionally underrepresented in the higher education sector.

Further information

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