Kids’ Instructor

**Job Title**:Kids‘ Fitness Instructor

**Position Reports to**:Gym Manager

**Location/Site**: Smart Gym, The Wedge, Silverburn Roundabout

**Working Hours**:Unknown

**Contract Type**:2 hours/week

**Pay rate**:£25/hour

**Job Summary**:
**Context of the Role**:
The Kids’ Fitness Instructor will be responsible for leading fitness classes for children. This role involves guiding children through age-appropriate exercises, promoting physical activity, and fostering a love for fitness and health. The Instructor must be able to work with a diverse range of fitness equipment and have experience working with children of all ages. Additionally, the Instructor may be asked to assist in promoting the classes and encouraging participation from parents and families.

**Responsibilities**:

- Leading engaging and age-appropriate fitness classes for children using the Born to Move program.
- Ensuring the safety and well-being of all participants during classes.
- Promoting a positive and encouraging atmosphere for children to enjoy fitness.
- Communicating effectively with parents and guardians about their child's progress and participation.
- Assisting in the promotion and marketing of the Born to Move classes to the community.
- Providing feedback to management on ways to improve the program and enhance the experience for children.
- Assisting with cleaning and maintenance of the fitness equipment and studio after each class.

**Person Specification**:

- Essential_
- Qualified in Les Mills’ Born to Move programme or willing to undergo training at own expense.
- Experience working in a children's fitness or recreational setting.
- Familiarity with fitness equipment and programming for children.
- Energetic, enthusiastic, and passionate about children's fitness.
- Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build rapport with children and parents.
- Knowledge of child development stages and how to create engaging fitness activities for different age groups (2-5, 6-7, 8-11 & 12-15).
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to motivate and inspire young participants.
- A commitment to promoting a healthy lifestyle and physical activity for children.
- Ability to work collaboratively with a team and adapt to changing needs in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactive and able to problem-solve and take initiative.
- A clear sense of personal responsibility and accountability.
- Desirable_
- Experience in promoting and marketing fitness classes to families and children.
- An understanding of the third sector.
- An extensive network of potential stakeholders (e.g. parents)

**About Smart Gym**:
Our children are watching everything we do, and we know that our mental health has a serious impact on them.

For example, Stanford Medicine estimates the heritability of depression is 40-50%. This is worrying because 1 in 5 new mums and around half of their partners develop a mental health issue following the birth of their child.

Research shows that exercise is just as effective as antidepressants for treating depressive disorders but for most parents and carers, gyms are not accessible or affordable.

In a pre-launch survey of 539 Glasgow caregivers, 70% of parents reported that their biggest barrier to exercise was "childcare commitments", whilst the biggest barrier for 13% of parents was that "gyms are too expensive".

Smart Gym is a social enterprise formed by parents to break these barriers to make exercise accessible and achievable for every family, and prevent family history repeating itself in future generations.

Our aim is to abate intergenerational health issues such as depression, anxiety and obesity-related illnesses in children through early intervention which includes introducing them to a gym environment from a young age as well as improving the lives of their role models-their parents and carers.

We believe that by inspiring caregivers to instil positive learned behaviours in exercise-based environments, and by using physical activity as a treatment for mental illness, we can create deep-rooted, long-term social change within our community.

Smart Gym disrupts the fitness industry by welcoming children age 8+ to use our gym alongside their caregiver and ensuring children aged 0-8 are looked after in our onsite crèche whilst parents workout.

Smart Gym’s exciting new partnership with Les Mills is a golden opportunity for someone with a passion in kids’ fitness to be help create a shift in public health that will affect generations to come.

**Job Type**: Part-time

**Salary**: £25.00 per hour

Expected hours: 2 per week

**Benefits**:

- Gym membership
- On-site parking

Application question(s):

- If you are not qualified in Les Mills: Born to Move, are you happy to undertake the training at your own expense? The cost of training is £180+VAT and comprises Zoom meetings with a Les Mills tutor, spread over 2 full days/4 half days.

**Education**:

- GCSE or equivalent (preferred)

**Experience