Fitness Class Instructor - Pilates

Better; Gateshead; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Part time

Job summary

A leading leisure social enterprise in Gateshead is seeking a Pilates Instructor to design and deliver exceptional fitness classes between multiple leisure centres. The ideal candidate will hold a Pilates Level 3 qualification and demonstrate excellent customer service skills. Responsibilities include ensuring safety in classes, promoting fitness activities, and developing positive relationships with participants. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact on local community health and well-being.

Qualifications

• Essential qualification of Pilates Level 3 required for the role.
• Experience managing a Leisure Centre is necessary.
• Strong customer service skills and ability to motivate participants.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver safe and effective workout classes.
• Maintain high standards as per the Customer Charter.
• Ensure participant safety and class environment is secure.

Skills

Excellent customer service

Ability to motivate others

Enthusiasm to deliver fitness classes

Creative and dynamic

Ability to self-promote

Education

Pilates Level 3

Job description

Pilates Instructor

GLL is recruiting a Pilates Instructor to work within Better Gateshead Leisure Centres; Heworth, Dunston, Gateshead Stadium and Blaydon.

Role Summary

A Fitness Class Instructor role is includes planning, delivering and developing exceptional fitness classes to customers. The instructor should focus on the following key areas

• Designing and delivering safe and effective workouts
• Regressing and progressing class to suit all customers abilities
• Design choreography for classes on a regular basis using relevant music genres to suit all participants
• To encourage and promote other activities and facilities participants to endorse cross train within the centre

The Pilates Instructor is responsible to the General Manager

Charitable Social Enterprise Difference and Strategic Ambitions

As a charitable social enterprise, we are different. Our purpose is to improve the physical, mental and social well being of local communities. We make a difference by:

• Providing balanced leisure centre, library and children centre programmes and activities that meet local needs and are accessible to all.
• Reinvesting surplus back into the business that benefits facilities, people development, the environment and sustainability.
• Providing training, routes to employment and career development opportunities to local people.
• Sponsoring thousands of promising athletes through our GLL Sports Foundation.
• Delivering targeted initiatives in partnership with local communities, groups and health providers.

We aim to be the most successful and influential leisure & cultural social enterprise in the UK. We have determined the key areas we need to focus on to deliver our purpose, and these are captured as our values.

Each of these themes sets out long term ambitions; which are regularly reviewed and updated and are reflected in the responsibilities and accountabilities of this role

Responsibilities and Accountabilities

• To comply with the commitments outlines in the Customer Charter ensuring that standards are maintained as stipulated
• To maintain a good and positive image of the centres to all participants proving a welcoming, helpful and professional service
• To go above and beyond to ensure that the participants have an exception experience on every visit
• To ensure that the class taught is as advertised is part of the GLL Fitness Class product
• To ensure the class environment is safe before during and after the class
• To ensure the safety and control of customers within the class environment and to enforce all centres guidelines
• To ensure all participants have registered and are booked onto the class

Other

• Act in accordance with, and actively promotes all GLL policies and standards.
• Undertake any other duties commensurate with the post’s level of responsibility or required particularly as a result of events outside of GLL’s business control (pandemics etc).
• Work flexibly in line with the needs of the business at peak flow times, evenings and weekends.
• Deliver critical incident management as and when required.

Key Working Relationships

• Reports to General Manager
• To constructively interact with different people in a variety of areas within the operational team and GLL support services.
• Builds good working relationships with all GLL colleagues, working both proactively and collaboratively.
• Builds positive and progressive relationships with local authority partners as required.

People with Purpose Behaviours

It is important to us that our people are people with purpose, who personally align with our strategic ambitions and values. We expect our people to understand the GLL difference, to take genuine pride in promoting social enterprise to others with the ability to this commitment every day in the way that they work. Our people make a positive impact of the health and well-being of our local communities.

Requirements of Role

Essential Qualifications Wet side Centre

Essential Qualifications Wet side Centre

• Pilates Level 3

Essential Qualifications Dry side/Specialist Centre

• Pilates Level 3

Experience

• One Leisure Centre Management

Knowledge and Skills

• Excellent customer service
• Ability to motivational others
• Enthusiasm and skill to deliver exceptional fitness classes
• Creative and dynamic
• Ability to self promote