Job Overview
The Seniors Fitness Coach is a part-time role from the Senior Community Grant that supports designing and leading physical fitness classes, educational health information and social gatherings. The physical fitness classes will be designed to promote mobility and health for seniors and senior caregivers. Classes will include Caring for Caregivers fitness (biweekly); a low-impact workout to support both seniors and their caregivers in maintaining physical strength and stress reduction; Stretch’n Strengthen (biweekly); targeted exercises to improve flexibility, balance, and muscle tone, essential for reducing the risk of injury; Chair Yoga (biweekly): Adapted yoga sessions that enhance relaxation, breathing techniques, and joint mobility, particularly for those with limited mobility; Falls Prevention classes (seasonal): two 12-week sessions annually that focus on building strength, balance and confidence to prevent falls and ensure safe mobility.
Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Lead group exercises
- Set up the equipment needed for exercise programs prior to beginning
- Lead exercise participants through various group exercise programs
- Put away equipment from exercise program once finished
- Measure the participant experience – being available for participants, responding to inquiries
- Performing assessments & re-assessments on new and existing participants
- Choosing safe and appropriate exercises for the various fitness classes
- Design, develop, and market (with the support of the grant team) the fitness classes and tools/resources as outlined in the grant
- Recruit, assess, program planning, evaluating participants
- Assist with communications and materials to prospective new participants
- Choose safe and appropriate exercises for the various fitness classes
- Choose appropriate health information to share with participants
- Manage admissions and discharges
- Support grant performance measures
- Fill out membership assessment forms with new participants
- Assess baseline measures of fitness using assessment tools
- Reassess participants as per grant
Scheduling assessments and re-assessments
Job Types: Part-time, Fixed term contract
Pay: $18.87-$56.80 per hour
Expected hours: 22.5 per week
Benefits:
- Casual dress
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- On-site gym
- On-site parking
- Wellness program
Work Location: In person
Application deadline: 2025-08-12
