Health & Fitness Manager

Home-based covering sites based in Kent & surrounding areas (up to 7 sites) Permanent, Full-time £31,223 per annum plus excellent benefits

Make a positive difference every day. More Leisure Community Trust encourages active, healthy lifestyles across the local community. Providing affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities in a safe, clean, friendly and welcoming space, their goal is to support healthier and happier lives for everyone. Delivering these services relies on an enthusiastic, customer-focused team, and they're now looking for a Health And Fitness Development Manager to join their team and help make a positive difference every day.

As Health and Fitness Development Manager, you'll help shape and deliver health and fitness programmes across multiple sites, supporting colleagues to provide outstanding experiences for members. Your work will focus on embedding best practice, growing participation, developing commercial fitness opportunities, and creating innovative solutions that support long-term growth.

This role offers the opportunity to make a positive impact on communities by helping more people engage with health and fitness activities that improve wellbeing. Through coaching, training, and strategic support, you'll help create welcoming environments where members can thrive while supporting the continued success and future development of leisure services.

What you’ll do as a Health and Fitness Development Manager

• Lead the implementation and ongoing development of the health and fitness strategy across multiple leisure facilities.
• Deliver training, coaching, and support to site teams to embed member journey programmes, products, frameworks, and operational standards.
• Support the growth of personal training services through recruitment, onboarding, development, and performance support for personal trainers.
• Work with sites to develop commercially effective group exercise programmes that drive participation, retention, and member satisfaction.
• Collaborate with management teams to improve fitness products, member experiences, and operational performance.
• Contribute to innovation, learning and development initiatives, new contract mobilisations, and wider business improvement projects.

Does this sound like you?

• Significant experience within the health and fitness industry, ideally including leadership experience within a fitness management role.
• Strong knowledge of personal training, group exercise programmes, and member engagement strategies.
• Experience leading, developing, and coaching high-performing teams.
• Confident delivering training, influencing stakeholders, and building trusted relationships across multiple locations.
• Experience managing operational or commercial performance within leisure, fitness, or community-focused facilities.
• Full UK driving licence and willingness to travel regularly to support sites.

What We Offer

• Free gym membership for you and your immediate family
• Free safeguarding training and DBS checks
• Free swimming lessons and holiday clubs for one child (50% off for additional children)
• 21 days’ holiday plus bank holidays
• 6% employer matched pension contribution
• Training and development opportunities
• Employee Assistance Programme, Wisdom wellbeing app, Personal Trainer discounts
• Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment, travel, and gym equipment
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Vetting and checks

An Enhanced DBS check is required for this role. This includes spent and unspent convictions, cautions, and any relevant information held by local police, in accordance with the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act and safeguarding requirements. You will also complete an Occupational Health Questionnaire to allow us to provide any support needed for you to succeed in the role.

Serco Leisure is one of the UK's leading national operators of leisure centres, destination venues and elite sporting facilities, managing sites, services and recruitment on behalf of the Leisure Trust.

Our Inclusive Recruitment Commitment

We prioritise your skills and potential, and champion equal opportunities for all. We offer flexible and hybrid working where possible and make reasonable adjustments throughout recruitment and employment.

• Guaranteed Interview Scheme: Applicants with disabilities, veterans and people with convictions, who meet the minimum job criteria, are guaranteed an interview. Simply opt into the relevant scheme on the application form.
• Ban The Box: We also support fair access for those with unspent criminal convictions through our ‘Ban the Box’ pledge (some roles may have security exemptions).

Please note, for many of our roles, a DBS check will be required.

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