Yoga Instructor

2 days ago

Glasgow, United Kingdom Smart Gym C.I.C. Full time

Smart Gym is all about breaking barriers and improving mental health.

We're not like other gyms, at all. We are a social enterprise, which means that all the money we make goes straight back in to helping the community through improved services such as outreach programmes and social prescriptions.

It is our mission to make wellness accessible, achievable and affordable to everyone, particularly parents and carers - a community that both the fitness industry and mental health sector have neglected.

We do this through a range of wellbeing services such as exercise, meditation and talking therapy alongside an innovative "soft gym" where children can tire themselves out whilst the parents tend to themselves.

Smart Gym works alongside a range of likeminded organisations and institutions across various sectors to ensure we are maximising the social impact of the services we provide.

Following four years of research, market testing and fundraising, Smart Gym is now set to launch its first of four low-cost family gyms across Glasgow, starting in Silverburn.

We believe that this is a golden opportunity for someone pursuing a career in fitness to get in on the ground floor of a different kind of gym. All employees will start on a salary slightly above the Living Wage which we then intend to increase as the company grows.

**_Job Title: _**Yoga Instructor

**_Position Reports to: _**Gym Manager

**_Location/Site: _**The Wedge, Silverburn

**_Working Hours: _**16 hours per week. 2-4 days/week, including weekends. A combination of four-hour and/or eight-hour shifts. Days and times vary.

**_Contract Type: _**Part-time

**_Job Purpose Summary: _**

Yoga Instructor will support the company's vision by planning and delivering exercise-based activities, particularly--but not exclusive to--Yoga. The role requires someone with highly sophisticated adaptation and communication skills in both one-to-one and group environments. Instructors should have a proven track record of successfully delivering exercise-based activities in a group setting, as well as a strong desire to produce positive social outcomes based around the health and wellbeing of the Glasgow community. The role is central to supporting ongoing user engagement as well as membership growth and retention.

**_Context of the Role: _**

Yoga Instructor will be one of seven staff members that makes up Smart Gym’s interventions team. The company commissions third party expertise to deliver specialised work, such as childcare and counselling services. Fitness instructor ensures excellent communication between third parties and beneficiaries, for example, when a child accompanies their parent into the gym, the Instructors may lead and introduce the family to the childcare team.

The core of this role is the autonomous delivery of a fitness classes using only evidence and education-based interventions, strongly influenced by each user's background, vulnerability, and level of commitment.

Expertise and experience in demonstrating diverse exercise (particularly Yoga), articulating teaching points, identifying fatigue/health indicators in users and adapting to unpredictable circumstances is required in order to meet the objectives of this role. Instructors will think from the beneficiaries’ perspective and have exemplary attention to detail when adapting to vulnerable groups, such as pregnant mothers.

**_Key responsibilities include: _**
- Composing and delivering exercise classes with the appropriate choice of music and equipment, making sure each movement has suitable adaptions for vulnerable groups including new mothers and people with health/fitness limitations.
- Working alongside the company's partners and academics to promote the development of beneficiaries and measure the impact of project activities.
- Representing Smart Gym and enhancing the reputation of the organisation; promoting the business and building strong and constructive relationships with beneficiaries and existing partners.
- Maintaining professional knowledge; undergoing the relevant mental health training and CPD in adherence with Smart Gym’s declaration of support in Scotland’s Mental Health Charter for Sports and Physical Activity.
- Administering emergency first aid/providing the relevant care to injured participants.
- Adhering to all policies within the company handbook and exhibiting a vast understanding of equality and diversity, health and safety, and vulnerable groups.
- Supervising open gym out with class hours; ensuring new customers get adequate inductions before handling equipment.
- Carrying out regular safety checks of the gym equipment and ensuring potential hazards are disburdened.
- The above list is illustrative. Accordingly, there may be a requirement to undertake additional duties, consistent with the level of the post, as directed by management._

**_Person Specification: _**
- Essential_
- At least three years’ experience in a similar role.
- A dedicated, org

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