Job Title: Fitness Instructor
Location: Henlow, Bedfordshire
Compensation: £25,877.80 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75819
Help Keep Our Armed Forces Fighting Fit
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Fitness Instructor at RAF Henlow, near Hitchin, Bedfordshire.
This is an exciting opportunity to make a real difference to the health, wellbeing, and operational readiness of military and civilian personnel. Working in a dynamic defence environment, you'll help people achieve their fitness goals, support rehabilitation and wellbeing initiatives, and contribute to a culture that values performance, resilience and personal development.
The role
As a Fitness Instructor, you'll play a vital role in supporting the physical wellbeing of military and civilian personnel. You'll deliver engaging fitness programmes, provide one-to-one coaching, support rehabilitation activities, and help maintain first-class sports facilities. This is a rewarding position where you'll directly contribute to operational effectiveness while developing your own skills and experience within a leading defence and engineering organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Deliver physical training sessions for military and civilian personnel.
- Develop and support individual fitness and reconditioning programmes.
- Maintain sports facilities, fitness equipment, and associated resources.
- Manage sports stores and ensure equipment and kit are available and serviceable.
- Promote health, wellbeing, and fitness initiatives across the station.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Henlow, Bedfordshire.
Essential experience of the Fitness Instructor
- Experience working in a fitness, health, wellbeing, or sports environment.
- Demonstrating strong verbal and written communication skills.
- Supporting and encouraging health and wellbeing improvement.
- Using Microsoft Office applications and other computer systems confidently.
- Adopting a flexible and proactive approach to work and personal development.
Qualifications for the Fitness Instructor
- Level 2 Fitness Instructor Qualification
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
- A dynamic working environment
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 14/09/2026
