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CFRS0165 - Fitness Instructors

Fitness Instructors - Two Opportunities

Join the Fitness and Wellbeing team! 

Salary: £13.47 per hour

Hours: 0 hour contract

Contract: Fixed-term, 12 months - INTERNAL ONLY 

Location: The two fitness instructors will be covering the Eden and South Lakes areas, more details below 

Closing date: 11:59pm on Sunday 2nd November 2025

Interviews: Interviews will be held virtually, on Thursday 6th November 2025

The Resourcing, Talent and Wellbeing team are looking for two new Fitness Instructors to join our team, which includes Recruitment, Promotion, Wellbeing, Fitness and much more. 

You will get to work alongside a mix of corporate and operational staff, delivering exceptional fitness and wellbeing testing, assessment, and support across key areas of the county. 

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Joining two existing Fitness Instructors, we are looking for people who can cover the below areas to complete annual fitness testing:

  • Alston
  • Ambleside
  • Appleby
  • Arnside
  • Coniston
  • Grange
  • Kirkby Lonsdale
  • Kirkby Stephen
  • Lazonby
  • Milnthorpe
  • Patterdale
  • Penrith
  • Sedbergh
  • Shap
  • Windermere 

The role:

  • To work as part of the Fitness and Wellbeing dept., delivering effective and supportive fitness and wellbeing assessments, ensuring service compliance and safe operational delivery.  
  • Where required, work with stations/depts. ahead of annual fitness assessments, encouraging engagement with the process and planning training with those who require it. This may be either on an individual or group basis.
  • Undertake annual fitness and wellbeing assessments throughout the year, in a professional, confidential, and engaging way. This includes offering and understanding several fitness tests, as well as knowledge of Service wellbeing resources.
  • Maintain knowledge of Blood Pressure Monitoring, with the ability to identify any health issues and refer employees as per the Fitness Process.
  • To offer and undertake Body Composition Analysis, fitness advice, and nutritional guidance where requested.
  • Attend, where possible, resourcing engagement events, interacting with potential operational candidates and offering fitness advice.
  • Attend, where possible, Operational recruitment Practical Selection Days, supporting with the assessing of Fitness testing and Hand Grip Testing.
  • Understanding of relevant Risk Assessments and be able to implement as required.
  • To ensure gym equipment and facilities used for fitness are safe, have been correctly maintained, are properly stored and safely used.
  • Maintain secure and accurate records of Service staff fitness and wellbeing assessments.
  • Take responsibility for effective performance, attending training as required to maintain skill levels.
  • Adhere to service policies and procedures, as relevant.  
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You:

  • You will be an internal member of staff who has a real passion for fitness and education, but who can also talk about fitness and wellbeing to a wide range of audiences in an engaging way.
  • You will need to be able to travel around the county, and this can be supported by the service with access to vehicles etc.
  • Training will be given and the Resourcing, Talent and Wellbeing team can support those towards qualifications where relevant to the role.
  • You will be friendly, approachable, and treat our staff and candidates with kindness when it comes to annual testing and selection days.
  • You will understand confidentiality and treating people with dignity and respect, supporting them back into work or with development plans to get to standards required. 

If you'd like to have a chat about the role, please get in touch with Annie Mac - Recruitment and Fitness Coordinator, or Ollie Wright - Resourcing, Talent and Wellbeing Lead. Please email initially to see when they are free, thank you.

You can also have a chat with our two Fitness Instructors Steve Relph and Steve Garner, however please be mindful of their working hours. 

Annie McInerney - annie.mcinerney@cumbriafire.gov.uk 

Ollie Wright - orlanda.wright@cumbriafire.gov.uk 

Please see the Fitness Instructor job description linked below (we call it a Post Specification) for more details on the essential criteria for the role. 

Attachment:  Fitness Instructor Post Specification (word)

**This role requires a Standard DBS check.**

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Reasonable Adjustments – we strongly encourage any candidate who may require reasonable adjustments to make us aware as soon as possible, either using the section on the application form or by contacting the Resourcing Team directly (email below). We will have a confidential discussion with you and we take the approach of ‘you tell us what you require, and we will do out best to facilitate’. Where we are unable to make the adjustment, we will share this asap. 

Resourcing Team email: Recruitment@cumbriafire.gov.uk 

TO APPLY:

Please complete the online Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service Application Form.

Link to Application Form: https://forms.office.com/e/X2pc2y6sDR (Microsoft Forms)

Please note: We do not accept CVs. 

If you have any queries at all, please contact the Resourcing & Talent team via email: Recruitment@cumbriafire.gov.uk 

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OUR SERVICE

With approximately 600 operational firefighters, front facing delivery teams, corporate services, and support staff, delivering services across the county from 38 Fire Stations, we know we need to be a modern, flexible, and inclusive employer. 

We offer:

  • Flexible working across the county, including a hybrid of homeworking and office working at one of our Wholetime stations
  • Free parking at our fire stations
  • Cycle to Work scheme
  • Access to station gyms, free of charge
  • Enrolment in either the Fire Pension Scheme or Local Government Pension Scheme (depending on your terms and conditions) - link to the Pensions page here
  • Occupational Health service, including counselling
  • Close working relationship with the Firefighters Charity, including mental and physical health support
  • A dedicated Wellbeing Hub – link here
  • On-going personal development, including apprenticeship options and leadership courses
  • Access to modern ICT equipment
  • Family friendly policies, including 45 weeks full pay for Parental Leave
  • Menopause Policy - link here (Word document)
  • Support for Carers
  • Workplace adjustments for Neurodiverse and Disabled employees
  • Staff Networks for a variety of different communities, including (but not limited to) Armed Forces, LGBTQ+, Menopause, Retirees

Our service is passionate about the communities we serve and dedicated to developing our workforce - if you're looking to progress in an inclusive, supportive, and dynamic fire service, we would like to hear from you! 

We value the diversity of our employees and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our communities in Cumbria. We actively encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people’s age, disability, gender, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, or other personal circumstances. 

We capture Equality data on our application forms to help us review barriers in our processes for any minority group. This is optional to complete and is securely removed and accessed only by the Resourcing team to review. 

Resourcing Team email: Recruitment@cumbriafire.gov.uk