Fitness Class Instructor - Band 2

Better; Reading; On-site; GBP 22,000 - 37,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working position

Learning & development

Good Pension schemes

Discounted gym membership for you and

Access to CPD training

Industry leading rates of pay

GLL Society membership

Discounts on villas in Portugal

Discounts on ski chalets in Bulgaria

Health assurance

Career pathways and professional dev

GLL Extras discounts

25% off Red Letter Days

25% off Buy A Gift

20% off spa experiences

Job summary

GLL is seeking Fitness Class Instructors to deliver engaging, high-energy sessions at South Reading Leisure Centre. You will lead a range of genres, keep classes safe, and inspire participants with dynamic energy while maintaining excellent customer service.

Ideal candidates hold Fitness class qualifications (Exercise to Music Level 2 and PT Level 2) and demonstrate strong communication, teamwork, and a passion for health and wellbeing.

Qualifications

• Specific fitness class qualifications and/or Exercise to Music Level 2 and PT Level 2 qualification.
• Strong communication skills and a real focus on customer service.
• Commitment and enthusiasm with knowledge of health and safety.

Responsibilities

• The ability to deliver a safe and effective class.
• Consistently perform a fun, enthusiastic, high quality class.
• Adapt, progress and regress where required for all ages and levels.
• Inspire all customers through class delivery and energy transfer.
• Ensure all customer expectations are exceeded.

Skills

Fitness qualifications

Communication skills

Customer service

Team player

Health and safety

Job description

GLL is looking for Fitness Class Instructors to work at South Reading Leisure Centre. If you have the passion,skillsand ambition to join us as a Fitness Class Instructor,there’snever been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Fitness Class Instructor job,it's a career.

Fitness Class Instructors are performers, empowers and Inspirers. You will need to be approachable, dynamic and have copious amounts of energy. Strong communication skills, the ability to adapt and to lead by example are key aspects of the Fitness Class Instructor. The ideal Fitness Class Instructor will be able to teach a plethora of genres and will commit to delivering a high standard class.

What you’ll do:

• The ability to deliver a safe and effective class
• Consistently perform a fun, enthusiastic, high quality class
• Adapt, progress and regress where required for all ages and levels
• Inspire all customers, through class delivery and the transferring of energy and motivation
• Ensure all customer expectations are exceeded

As a leader within the leisure industry we can also offer scope to progress your career, and job variety like nowhere else.

What you need:

• Specific fitness class qualifications and/orexercise to Music Level 2 and PT level 2 qualification
• Strong communication skills
• A real focus on customer service
• Commitment and enthusiasm
• Knowledge of health and safety
• Be a great team player

As a charitable social enterprise owned by its staff GLL has a great range of benefits for its employees:

• A Values driven organisation

• A flexible working position. 18+ years up to £27.66 per hour.

• Learning & development to support career development

• Good Pension schemes

• Discounted gym membership for you and your partner.

• Access to an extensive range of free and funded CPD training to develop and enhance your career

• Industry leading rates of pay

• Opportunity to join the GLL Society and have a say in how we are run plus associated social events

• Exclusive discounts on our villas in Portugal

• Exclusive discounts on our Ski chalets in Bulgaria

• Health assurance

• Career pathways, professional development are just the start. To ensure you stay at the top of your game, we provide training with practical and theory elements too.

• Discounts across thousands of retailers (GLL Extras)

• 25% off Red Letter Days

• 25% off Buy A Gift

• 20% off GLL spa experience treatments and associated products.

• Ride to work scheme

• Free eye tests and discounted glasses

About GLL:

As the UK’s largest leisure operator and charitable social enterprise, we offer a range of careers for everyone in our local communities. We manage over 400 facilities across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, including public sport and leisure centres, elite sporting venues, libraries and children’s centres.

Our people are from the communities we serve and help us make real changes in their local area.

One of our core values is ‘More than a Job’, because working with us opens up a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us.To make sure we’re having a positive impact on our people, we also offer some flexible and part-time working options so you can make sure your new job works for you. Subject to vacancies, whether you are after a contractual commitment and a regular work schedule or the freedom of flexible hours, you may be able to choose an arrangement that works best for you and play your part in improving the health and wellbeing of your community.

We offer two different types of work arrangements:

• A permanent employment contract - part time and full time
• A flexible worker engagement by joining our flexible worker pool

If you are looking for a regular number of hours that you can work, and are flexible to meet the needs of a 7 day a week service, then a full-time or part-time permanent contract might be the right choice for you.

So whether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support or working with children, you’ll be able to find your ideal new job at GLL.

Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are Investors in People Silver Award employer.

However you choose to work with us, you can be sure that you will be a valued member of our team, working with great colleagues, and making a real difference to people’s lives.

We are an inclusive employer. We seek and welcome diversity in our teams.

All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.