Group Exercise Instructor

Group Exercise Instructor Vacancies available in Eastbourne, Lewes \& Newhaven

01 - 10 Casual Hours per Week

Up to £27.69 per hour (+ holiday pay) depending on length of class

Got the energy? We’ve got the classes.

We’re on the lookout for brilliant Group Exercise Instructors who can bring the music, motivation and feel-good energy to our studios.

If you know how to lead a room, lift the atmosphere and leave members walking out with a smile, we’d love to hear from you.

We have opportunities available across Lewes, Eastbourne and Newhaven, with classes available across mornings, evenings and weekends.

We’re looking for instructors who can teach:

• Strength and conditioning-style classes Including Les Mills BODYPUMP / BODYPUMP Heavy
• Cardio-based classes
• Indoor cycling
• Dance-style fitness classes
• Pilates
• Body conditioning-style classes

We’re especially keen to hear from instructors who can support with Indoor Cycling, Pilates and Body Conditioning-style classes across Lewes and Eastbourne

What we’re all about

At Wave Active and Hillbrow Health and Wellbeing in Eastbourne, our classes are more than just a workout. They’re about confidence, community, energy and helping people feel their best.

We want instructors who can create classes that are safe, inclusive, motivating and fun — whether someone is brand new to exercise or a regular front-row member.

You’ll be a great fit if you are:

• Full of energy and passionate about group exercise
• Confident leading fun, safe and engaging classes
• Able to adapt sessions for mixed abilities
• Friendly, approachable and professional
• Reliable, punctual and well-prepared
• Motivated to help members keep coming back for more

Why join us?

We offer great rates of pay, a busy and varied class programme, and the chance to teach across a friendly, community-focused leisure network.

You’ll be joining a team that helps people move more, feel better and enjoy exercise — while creating classes members genuinely look forward to.

Interested?

We’d love to hear from you.

Please get in touch and let us know:

• What classes you are qualified to teach
• Your availability
• Where you would be interested in working

Bring the energy. Own the room. Inspire the workout.

Background

Wave Active is an award-winning charity and social enterprise, supporting local communities with facilities, activities, and services to inspire active lifestyles.

Our purpose is “Inspiring Active Lifestyles” and vision, “To be at the heart of the improvement of health and wellbeing in the Community”.

Managing a number of leisure facilities and Newhaven Fort, across the Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough of East Sussex we are passionate about providing opportunities that support individuals to gain, regain or maintain: health, fitness, and wellbeing.

Offering a range of activities across our facilities and multifunctional spaces, our team is dedicated to creating an approachable environment enabling individuals to prioritise their health and wellbeing journey.

As a charity, formed in 2006, Wave Active continues to ensure all surplus revenues generated from activities are reinvested back into the community in the form of: facility developments, refurbishments, employment opportunities, new programmes of activity and to support those with health conditions to make health improvements.

The Post in Context

To deliver high quality group exercise classes to Wave participants. Our Group Exercise Instructors must be passionate about delivering classes that will encourage participation from all ages and abilities and create an amazing and memorable member experience.

Job Purpose

You must possess strong coaching attributes and be able to adapt your sessions towards varied abilities. We are looking for passionate and dedicated individuals who have the confidence to engage with our customers and motivate them in a safe and fun environment, all of which underpin our principle of Inspiring Active Lifestyles and have a key role in helping our customers achieve their personal goals and aiding membership retention.

You will also need to be reliable, punctual, adaptable, and flexible with a passion for bringing a healthier, fitter lifestyle to our customers.

You will deliver classes in line with our policies and procedures, ensuring a safe environment for all attendees.

Main Duties

• Educate members on correct exercise techniques and offer modifications / progressions / regressions where required in line with your class style.
• Make your participants’ safety and enjoyment your number one priority.
• Ability to deal with a diversity of individuals and encourage participants to feel successful.
• Ability to communicate with people of all age groups.
• Ability to effectively demonstrate all skills / exercises being taught to participants.
• Convey warmth and genuine interest to the participants: make eye contact, smile, use participants names and personalize the workout even in a large class.
• Be outgoing, energetic, and able to perform in front of an audience.
• Operate studio stereo equipment accordingly, with music at sound levels that are appropriate to class type and intensity, but also safe for participants.
• Where applicable, follow formatted programs according to license requirements and/or Wave’s request.
• Be proactive in promoting events and new innovations across the Wave group.
• Working to a high legal and ethical standard at all times, particularly in relation to issues such as child safeguarding and health and safety requirement.
• Wave marketing department will, at times, require imagery for advertising purposes and an instructor’s profile for promotional activities.

Qualifications (Essential)

• ETM Qualification and/or Level 2 Fitness Instructor Qualification
• Other relevant qualification required dependent on class being delivered

Experience (Desirable)

• Minimum of 1 years teaching experience

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies (Essential)

• Educate members on correct exercise techniques and offer modifications / progressions / regressions where required.
• Make your participants’ safety and enjoyment your number one priority.
• Ability to deal with a diversity of individuals and encourage participants to feel successful.
• Ability to communicate with people of all age groups.
• Ability to effectively demonstrate all skills / exercises being taught to participants.
• Manage in class feedback.

Knowledge, Skills and Competencies (Desirable)

• Ability to cover classes across various Wave sites

Personal Attributes (Essential)

• You will also need to be reliable, punctual, adaptable, and flexible with a passion for bringing a healthier, fitter lifestyle to our customers

Job Type: Part-time

Pay: £23.81-£27.69 per hour

Benefits:

• Employee discount
• Free parking
• On-site gym
• On-site parking

Application question(s):

• Must hold ETM Qualification and/or Level 2 Fitness Instructor Qualification
• Other relevant qualification required dependent on class being taught

Experience:

• Teaching: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: In person