Health and Wellbeing Exercise Instructor - Richmond, United Kingdom - Enable

Enable

Verified Company

Richmond, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Personal Trainer to work across our Active Wellbeing Programme at Enable, based in Richmond.

About Us:

Enable is a charity dedicated to improving people's wellbeing and strengthening local communities.

We work with councils, charities and other local organisations to deliver health, leisure, community services and events that enrich people's lives and strengthen our local community.

At Enable, we value our employees and our culture, focussing on embracing diversity and fostering an inclusive, flexible and fun environment for employees to perform at their best.

On top of a competitive salary and flexible working environment, employees will also receive:

Reports to:
Programme Lead

Based:
Richmond

Salary:
£31.52 per hr Inclusive of annual leave

Contract:
Casual

DBS:
Enhanced

The Active Wellbeing Programme:

The Active Wellbeing programme is a specialist mental health exercise referral programme.

This programme is designed to engage and promote health and wellbeing to people diagnosed with a severe mental illness (SMI).

The role will be working across the Richmond and Kingston boroughs. Preference can be decided upon successful applicants.

The Health and Wellbeing Team are a passionate group of health professionals who empower people to make lasting changes to their health and wellbeing and improve their quality of life.

We put the person at the centre of everything we do, building innovative initiatives that tackle barriers to improving health.

We are experts at reducing health inequalities, real or perceived, and creating lasting changes.

The post-holder will be responsible for delivering a 10 week, 1:1 personal training programme to clients with severe mental health illnesses (SMI).

The post-holder will be responsible for attending initial and final assessment meetings either side of the 10 week programme for each client assigned to them as part of the Active Wellbeing programme.

Job Dimensions

Ensures that the service is provided to the standards required by the organisation, Government Legislation and governing body rulings.
Deliver a one hour exercise session each week over a duration of 10 sessions per assigned programme client.
Actively involved in programme assessments either side of the 10 session programme.
Deliver an individualised physical activity programme to each client assigned.

Main

Responsibilities:

Design and deliver a weekly physical activity session for each client considering safety and progression with each of the 10 sessions.
Engage in all client assessments prior to and beyond their 10week programme
Active engagement and design of goals and individualised exercise plans for each client
Monitor clients exercise intensity, type, and ability to ensure clients are exercising safely.
Monitoring clients mental wellbeing during sessions to ensure safety and communicating any concerns to the line manager.
Responsible for arranging weekly sessions with clients.
High level of communication between instructor and client to confirm session times and locations.
High level of communication between instructor and line manager to report any concerns with a clients mental and physical wellbeing during sessions.
Provide motivation and encouragement for clients to engage in sessions and stay engaged in their programme.
Responsible for the setup of equipment for outdoor or online sessions.
Responsible with checking in and out of sessions with the admin team to ensure safety of both instructor and client.
Responsible for checking the safety of equipment. If equipment is faulty and needs to be replaced, responsible for communicating this with the Active Wellbeing programme coordinator.
Responsible for administering first aid in the event of an accident and ensuring that safety requirements are met in all areas.