Gym Instructor

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Detail information about job Gym Instructor. Terms and conditions vacancy

Wanneroo Aquamotion
Casual

Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer 

• Casual Position
• Salary:  $25.89 per hour (excluding casual loading)

 

About the City of Wanneroo

We are a vibrant and progressive organisation committed to enabling our growing communities to prosper. We live by our Values of Customer Focussed, Improvement, Accountability, Respect and Collaboration. As one of the fastest growing local governments in Australia we are excited about the opportunities for our community and staff.

 

The Role

The City is seeking an experienced Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer, with high level expertise.  The Gym instructor/ Personal Trainer role is to engage and motivate the members and patrons of Wanneroo Aquamotion through creating high quality customer experiences.

 

The Gym instructor position is critical to the success of Wanneroo Aquamotion as it has a high responsibility for the retention of members.  It is expected that a Gym Instructors and Personal Trainers conduct themselves professionally at all times through the welcoming of members and patrons to the centre, conducting fitness appraisals, providing technical health and fitness advice, feedback and exercise instruction to ensure a safe and effective exercise environment for all health and fitness users. 

 

The successful appointee will be responsible for:

 

• Supervising the gym floor ensuring correct exercise technique and equipment use are instructed to members and patrons; including the correction of exercise form. 
• Providing personalised customer service through the assessment, development and delivery of individual fitness programs for members.
• Undertaking individual fitness appraisals including pre-exercise screening and evaluation of medical history and contraindications to exercise; as well as the assessment, recording and evaluation of fitness results for the production of progress reports for client feedback.  
• Assisting clients in setting specific health, fitness and anthropometric goals related to their desired outcomes. 
• Providing exceptional customer service by welcoming members and patrons upon entry to the fitness centre, prompting and scheduling fitness appraisals and workout appointments, conducting follow up contact with members via phone and email for the purposes of member engagement as directed by the Health and Fitness Team Leader.  
• Assisting with customer enquiries, membership sales, personal training sales and administrative processes. 
• Maintaining health and fitness department presentation through the limited maintenance of fitness equipment including minor lubrication of machines, cleaning of machines and equipment as per schedule and reporting of equipment malfunction to the Health and Fitness Team Leader. 

 

Skills and Experience

As a collaborative member of the Wanneroo Aquamotion Health and Fitness team, the successful appointee must be a motivated, organised, experienced and passionate individual looking to impact positive change on peoples lives . They must also thrive working in a very busy, change driven organisation and be willing to work as part of a team.   As such, applicants must be able to demonstrate through their CV and covering letter (no more than 2 pages) that they meet the following capabilities:

 

1. Excellent interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills with an ability to work collaboratively within a team environment. 
2. Be willing to introduce themselves to people they don't know and able to make them feel welcome. 
3. Have advanced organisational and problem solving skills and demonstrated ability to set priorities to see tasks through to completion.
4. Have some basic sales skills.
5. Experience within the Health and Fitness industry.
6. Have a cert III and IV in Health and Fitness and a professional registration with Fitness Australia as an exercise professional.  
7. Demonstrated knowledge and awareness of Health and Fitness Occupational Health and Safety standards.

Finally, you will need to demonstrate that you have initiative and understand that the role of Gym Instructor and Personal Trainer entails responsibilities. To be a successful candidate you will need exceptional customer service skills, an awesome desire to succeed and understand that hard work will get you there. 

 

Applicants may be required to undergo a medical assessment to determine their fitness to carry out the duties of this position.

 

All employees and prospective employees of the City of Wanneroo are required to declare any secondary employment and private activities to ensure that any conflict of interests may be appropriately managed.

 

To apply for this position, you must have the right to work in Australia and be willing to provide a National Police Clearance no older than 6 months.  

Enquiries: Luke Jenkins
Ph: (08) 9405 5999
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