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Fitness Instructor

Job details

Contract hours: 24
Basis: Part time
Salary: £14,379 per annum
Location: Uppingham School Sports Centre
Closing date: 1 January 2025, 12:00 am

Description

Uppingham School Sports Centre has an exciting part-time opportunity for a well-qualified Fitness Instructor.

Opened in September 2010, Uppingham School Sports Centre (‘USSC’) is a fully dual-use facility used by over 1,300 public members as well as the school. Described by Lord Coe at its opening as ‘world class’, USSC has been designed to provide state-of-the-art sporting facilities for the school’s pupils, as well as allowing access to local residents, sports clubs and other schools.

You will be the first point of contact in the Fitness Studio for pupils, staff and the general public, representing the Fitness Team in a friendly, helpful and courteous manner. Our Fitness Instructors will be trained to set tailor made programmes around the needs of the individual and provide them with the highest levels of customer care.

Your main duties will include:

Making sure the Fitness Suite is kept safe, clean and tidy at all times
Carrying out inductions to the Fitness Suite and gaining an understanding of the users’ individual goals and needs
Achieving personal training and fitness products sales targets
Supervising gym users and ensuring their safety

A Level 2 Gym Instructing qualification is essential. You will also be comfortable with group instructing and will possess experience of personalised programme setting.

Working hours:

This role will be worked over an average of 24 hours per week, working on a three-week rolling rota to cover the Centre’s opening hours 07:00 – 22:00.

Uppingham School is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and applicants must be willing to undergo child protection screening appropriate to the post, including checks with past employers and the Disclosure and Barring Service.

All positions at the School are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974, therefore ALL convictions, cautions, reprimands and final warnings (including those which would normally be considered ‘spent’ under the Act) MUST be declared, subject to the DBS filtering rules. All information given will be treated as confidential and each case will be taken on its merits. Failure to disclose this information may result in the withdrawal of an offer of employment or immediate termination of employment.

Uppingham School is an equal opportunities employer.

Working at Uppingham

Uppingham is a vibrant, stimulating, energetic and forward-looking school. Our community is made up of talented people offering a diverse range of experiences. We welcome applications from candidates who are both experienced and new to working within the independent education sector.