Relief Tutor/Coach (Pilates/Yoga)

High Life Highland; Alness; On-site; GBP 23,000 - 33,000; Part time

Job summary

High Life Highland is seeking a Relief Leisure Instructor to join the Leisure team on an as-required basis in Scotland. The role involves guiding participants through fitness courses, adhering to safety standards and National Governing Body guidelines.

You will conduct risk assessments, manage equipment, take fees, keep records, and help deliver a welcoming, inclusive environment. The post is not suitable for homeworking and requires flexibility to cover holidays or sickness across facilities.

Responsibilities

• Instruct and guide customers through courses and classes appropriate to their abilities.
• Instruct and guide customers in accordance with National Governing Body guidelines of good practice in the sport.
• Ensure a risk assessment is carried out prior to any activity, and appropriate precautions adopted to minimise unnecessary risk, including checks of any equipment to be used.
• Ensure customers are made welcome to their activity, enjoy their activity, and have opportunity to seek individual advice and guidance concerning the ongoing practice of related activities.
• Maintain registers, records and statistics of activities in line with established procedures.
• Know and comply with the Normal Operating Procedure and Emergency Action Plan for any facility where activities are taking place.
• Taking fees for customer activities and accounting for monies by adopting established procedures.
• Setting up and tidying away of equipment.
• Pursue continuous professional development and contribute to the continuous improvement HLH as a whole.
• Attend and undertake any training online or in person.
• Aim to reduce wastage and uphold our environmental values of being as sustainable as possible in all tasks.
• Assist and support other areas of High Life Highland with particular projects, training or in the event of holidays or sickness working cross-functionally across the Leisure team.
• Maintain an awareness and knowledge of the risk management responsibilities appropriate to their role, as identified within the HLH Risk Policy and associated guidance documentation.

Job description

• Contract type: Relief (As and when required)
• Salary: £20.13 per hour
• Homeworking: This post is not suitable for homeworking
• Responsible to: Operations Manager
• Actively promote a positive and collaborative workplace culture that supports the Charity’s purpose of Making Life Better and i-care values to increase morale, productivity and performance.
• Instruct and guide customers through courses and classes appropriate to their abilities of fitness and skill, including the necessary pre-planning;
• Instruct and guide customers in accordance with National Governing Body guidelines of good practice in the sport;
• Ensure a risk assessment is carried out prior to any activity, and appropriate precautions adopted to minimise unnecessary risk, including checks of any equipment to be used;
• Ensure customers are made welcome to their activity, enjoy their activity, and have opportunity to seek individual advice and guidance concerning the ongoing practice of related activities;
• Maintain registers, records and statistics of activities in line with established procedures;
• Know and comply with the Normal Operating Procedure and Emergency Action Plan for any facility where activities are taking place;
• Taking fees for customer activities and accounting for monies by adopting established procedures;
• Setting up and tidying away of equipment.
• Pursue continuous professional development and contribute to the continuous improvement High Life Highland as a whole.
• Attend and undertake any training online or in person.
• Aim to reduce wastage and uphold our environmental values of being as sustainable as possible in all tasks.
• Assist and support other areas of High Life Highland with particular projects, training or in the event of holidays or sickness working cross-functionally across the Leisure team.
• Maintain an awareness and knowledge of the risk management responsibilities appropriate to their role, as identified within the HLH Risk Policy and associated guidance documentation.

*** A Disclosure Scotland PVG check is not required for this post ***

About us

High Life Highland is charity and our purpose is Making Life Better. We are a fun, friendly, caring, supportive, inclusive and proud organisation with strong people values based around integrity, community, accountability, respect and example. We believe if all of our employees strive to embrace our people values then, collectively, we give ourselves the best chance of fulfilling our purpose of Making Life Better.

High Life Highland (HLH) is committed to the protection and safeguarding of vulnerable groups,including children and protected adults and believes that they should never experience any kind ofabuse. It has a responsibility to promote the welfare of those in vulnerable groups and to keep themsafe and to practice in a way that protects them. HLH expects all those with whom the Charity engagesto share this position. Where applicable, new positions will be subject to the appropriate level ofDisclosure Scotland checking; identity checks (address, date of birth), employment/experience history,two references (one of which must be most recent employer, where appropriate), qualifications, Rightto Work in the UK (where applicable). The above will apply to anyone working on behalf of HLH (paid orunpaid) including all board directors, staff, workers, volunteers, agency staff and students.