Fitness Class Instructor - Yoga/Pilates/Tai Chi

Better; Reading; On-site; GBP 18,000 - 24,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme

Health assurance

Counselling services

Ride to Work scheme

Free eye tests

Discounted leisure centre membership

Job summary

GLL is seeking Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi Instructors to join the team at South Reading Leisure Centre, delivering classes to the wider community with energy and care. This role goes beyond instruction, empowering customers to improve lifestyle habits and personal growth through engaging sessions.

We value passion, strong communication, customer service, health and safety awareness, and teamwork. Flexible hours, training opportunities, and staff benefits are offered as part of our values-driven

Qualifications

• Yoga Level 3 (Minimum of 200hrs).
• Strong communication skills.
• A real focus on customer service.
• Commitment and enthusiasm.
• Knowledge of health and safety.
• Be a great team player.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Yoga Level 3

Communication skills

Customer service

Commitment

Enthusiasm

Health and safety

Team player

Job description

GLL is looking for Yoga, Pilates and Tai Chi Instructorsto work at South Reading Leisure Centre. If you have the passion, skills, and ambition to join us as a Yoga Class Instructor,there'snever been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Yoga Class Instructor job;it'sa career.

We areseekingtalented and enthusiastic Yoga Instructors to join our team. Yoga classes are delivered to the whole community within the centres. A Yoga Instructor applying for this role will understand that this role is more than just an instructing position; it is the ability to empower change within customer lifestyles. The Yoga Instructor has the skill to raise the customers' spirits and support them in achieving the best they can from attending the class. Through experience and leading by example, the Yoga Instructor willassistcustomers in their own development with the class.

Whatyou’lldo:

• Deliver a safe and effective class.

• Consistently perform a fun, enthusiastic, high-quality class.

• Adapt, progress, and regress whererequiredfor all ages and levels.

• Inspire all customers through class delivery and the transferring of energy and motivation.

• Ensure all customer expectations are exceeded.

What you need:

• Yoga Level 3 (Minimum of 200hrs).

• Strong communicationskills.

• A real focus on customer service.

• Commitment and enthusiasm.

• Knowledge of health and safety.

• Bea great teamplayer.

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

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!

The basics:

• This is a Flexible position.Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service; flexible working may be possible. Working from home is not possible in this role.

• We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry-leading rates of pay.

• We can offer a career, not just a job, with extensive Learning & Development support available.

• A uniform will be supplied and must be worn.

• GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard tobenefitthe communities weoperatein.

• As a staff-owned organisation, you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business.

Additionally, GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits:

• Access to a pension scheme.

• Health Assurance and access to Counselling services.

• Access to the tax-efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.

• Free annual eye tests.

• Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!

GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include:

• The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members torepresentyou.

• Access to team building and fun events such as treks, concerts, outings, etc.

• Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet.

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 a wide range of possibilities and opportunities for you, starting with how you work with us. To make sure we are 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 twodifferent typesof 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.

Sowhether your ambitions lie in sport and leisure, events & catering, health & beauty, corporate support, or working with children,you’llbe 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 Gold 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. Weseekand welcome diversity in our teams.All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications & location.