Service Fitness Advisor

An opportunity has arisen for a Service Fitness Advisor to join an inclusive and value driven public sector organisation with an outstanding organisational culture. We offer free car parking, a generous pension and generous annual leave.

Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service (LFRS) is seeking a dedicated and proactive Service Fitness Advisor to lead, plan, and deliver our Fitness Policy, ensuring the health, wellbeing, and operational readiness of our staff. In this role, you will organise and support the structured Annual Fitness Assessments for all operational personnel, while also promoting health and wellbeing initiatives across the Service. You will be expected to work flexibly to support operational staff on all duty systems and collaborate with both internal and external partners.

Additionally, you will coordinate Service PTIs to ensure consistency of working practices, oversee the procurement, maintenance, and servicing of fitness equipment and participate in meetings, working groups, and project teams as required.

You will advise on policy matters relating to physical fitness, produce relevant documentation, maintain and report on fitness data, including the creation of action plans and programmes to help staff who need to develop their fitness.

We are looking for an enthusiastic and experienced fitness professional who is passionate about promoting health and wellbeing in a dynamic environment. You should have excellent communication and organisational skills, the ability to motivate others, and experience in delivering and evaluating fitness assessments and health promotion. You must also be able attend evenings and weekend meetings and events as required for the role.

Closing date for applications is 12 noon on 17 October 2025. However we reserve the right to close the advert prior to this if sufficient quality applications have been received.

We anticipate interviews to take place week commencing 27 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter.

This post is subject to a Standard check with the Disclosure and Barring Service*.     Diversity Matters at Lancashire Fire and Rescue Service – we want to attract the broadest range of people to work with us and the more diverse the workforce, the better able we are to serve our community. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from all individuals regardless of gender, ethnicity, disability, sexuality, social background, religion and/or belief or age. We are proud to be a Disability Confident Employer.

This post has been advertised internally and externally.

*With effect from 6 July 2023, Fire & Rescue Authorities have been listed in Schedule 1 of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions) Order 1975, meaning that all LFRS roles are subject to a Standard Level Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) Check as a minimum. Some roles within the Service will be eligible for a higher level check depending on the duties of the role.