Racquets Fitness Centre, behind the Cattle Market in Thame, is looking for enthusiastic, energetic and self motivated new staff to join our team as soon as possible.

Racquets is a busy Fitness Centre offering gym, classes, squash, racketball, table tennis, sunbeds, social, functions, personal training, coaching, tournaments, competitions, food and drink.

Racquets Fitness Centre is looking for a Personal Trainer  and ideally Group Fitness Instructor

The right person will be friendly, customer focussed, enthusiastic and with a good attention to detail who is keen to spend time in a fitness centre motivating and enthusing our members to achieve their goals.

Responsibilities :

• Directly for the club
  • Assume the responsibility of training existing clients who are interested in increasing their fitness levels, losing weight and entering challenges
  • Provide clients with safe, reasonable exercises that they can perform in the gym as well as at home
  • Talk to members of the gym about their goals and introduce them to our personal training packages
  • Lead group fitness classes when necessary
  • Arrange challenges : whether inside the club or taking groups of members on external challenges
  • Advise clients on diet
  • Develop bespoke training plans
  • Monitor mis-use of equipment
  • Advise clients about important safety concerns and demonstrate exercises or manoeuvres as needed

• Private personal training
  • Build up a private personal training client base working out at the club
  • Collect payments from clients and pay the club use fee
• Work out at the gym at least three days per week
• General team work
  • Work with other members of the team to continue the fun, family, friendly atmosphere of Racquets
  • Work to ensure that the club, its equipment and its environment is a safe and comfortable place to visit and work out
  • Pitch in where necessary in all aspects of the business including sales, marketing, maintenance, social to ensure a smooth running of our small business

Skills :

• Great customer service skills
• Personal training or group training certification required
• Must have current, valid First Aid certifications
• 2+ years experience in personal training or group fitness instruction
• Ability to perform exercises and movements as demonstrations for clients
• Social media skills preferred
• Sales experience a plus
• Bar work experience a plus

Working hours :

• You will generally be working at Racquets Fitness Centre in Thame
• Number of hours a week will be negotiable, with set shifts as well as the opportunity to fill in for holidays and busy periods
• The work is shift work and you are expected to work times when the members prefer to work out
• Self-employed Instructors can set their own rates for personal training sessions and choose how busy to make their schedule

Position is part time but for the right person could progress to full time.

Rates of pay are good and there a fringe benefits.

If you are interested in shift work, part time or full time please contact info@racquets-fitness-centre.com or 01844 261754 for more information.