Exercise Referral Advisor

BH Live; Southampton; On-site; GBP 28,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading leisure organisation in Southampton seeks an Exercise Referral Advisor to support exercise referral patients across two sites. This role involves implementing health programmes, conducting fitness assessments, and providing essential support to patients. Candidates must hold a Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification and possess strong interpersonal skills. The position offers various perks including gym membership and training opportunities to foster professional growth.

Benefits

Onsite parking

Training and development opportunities

Gym membership

Health cash plan

Employee Assistance programme

Company pension matched up to 6% contributions

Colleague discount on food and drink

Colleague recognition

Birthday / Celebratory day off

Loyalty Rewards

Qualifications

• A level 3 Exercise Referral qualification is essential.
• Experience in the field is desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assist with the Health and Fitness Programme for exercise referral patients.
• Undertake 'Welcome Sessions' for new referral patients.
• Carry out fitness testing and assessments.
• Formulate safe physical activity recommendations.
• Identify situations needing clearance from health managers.
• Assist with programme administration as required.

Skills

Empathy

Excellent customer service skills

Good organisational skills

Desire to make a positive change

Education

Level 3 Exercise Referral qualification

Job description

Post Title: Exercise Referral Advisor

Location: BH Live Active – Southampton Sites

Salary: £27,319 per annum

Hours per week: 40

Contract Type: Permanent

Anticipated start date: February 2026

The role:

We are recruiting for an Exercise Referral Advisor to join our team at BH Live Active, working across two BH Live active sites in Portsmouth, the Mountbatten and Pyramids Centre.

A level 3 Exercise Referral qualification is essential, and experience in the field is desirable.

You will:

• Assist with the implementation of the Health and Fitness Programme provided for exercise referral patients at the nominated sites.
• Undertake 'Welcome Sessions' for new referral patients and provide follow-up one-to-one informal support.
• Carry out individual fitness testing and assessments for patients, as per the procedures and guidelines set out by the Health and Wellbeing Manager.
• Ensure the correct interpretation of the fitness tests and assessments, formulating safe and appropriate physical activity recommendations for each individual.
• Correctly identify situations where an individual’s safe exercise participation needs to be cleared by the Health and Wellbeing Manager or the programme’s GP.
• Assist with the administration of the programme as required.
• Attend and contribute to any relevant meetings as may be required including staff training.
• Assist with the continued promotion of the programmes as directed by the Health and Wellbeing Manager.
• Adopt the Centre’s Customer Care Policy and as such, assist and advise all customers in a polite and friendly manner to make their visit an enjoyable experience and thus ensure repeat visits.

To be successful you will need:

• Empathy
• Excellent customer service skills
• Good organisational skills
• A desire to make a positive change to someone’s physical and emotional wellbeing.

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We offer:

• Onsite parking
• Training and development opportunities
• BH Live Active - Gym membership
• Health cash plan
• Employee Assistance programme
• Company pension matched up to 6% contributions
• Colleague discount on food and drink
• Colleague recognition
• Birthday / Celebratory day off
• Loyalty Rewards

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

• More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing
• Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience
• Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.

As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.

We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.

To apply:

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site: careers.bhlive.org.uk

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.