Job Details:
Sessional Youth Worker (Gym & Fitness)

Job Description

About the role:

Sports, along with the Arts and Youth Work, is at the heart of HideOut offer to young people. The sports offer at HideOut is wide ranging and as a member of the Sports team, you will be key in ensuring young people have access to an exciting and engaging programme of multi-disciplinary activities that will be challenging, stimulating, fun, engaging and developmental. You will have access to our new gym, equipped with cardio and resistance equipment, weight-lifting facilities and a functional area. You will be involved in teaching the fundamentals gym use and fitness, running fitness classes in line with your skills, as well as facilitating taster sessions and competitions, which engage young people and build their skills and fitness levels.

Within the Sports Team, we are looking for sessional workers to become part of a team with a wide range of skills, who are also passionate about working with young people. Ideally, you will have experience, or one or more coaching qualifications, such as Level 2 NGB including Level 2 Gym Instruction or above. We are also looking applicants with Level 2 Certificate in Coaching Weightlifting.

About Empower Youth Zones:

Empower Youth Zones is the umbrella charity that currently oversees operations of the award-winning youth charity based in Manchester, HideOut Youth Zone, which opened in 2020 and will operate the new Salford Youth Zone (SYZ), due to open Spring / Summer 2025.

SYZ’s state-of-the-art building will provide young people with somewhere safe to go, something positive to do and someone trusted to talk to, with facilities that include outdoor 3G and MUGA pitches, climbing wall, gym, boxing and mixed martial arts area, sports hall gaming and recreation area, dance, arts, music and media suites.

The two Youth Zone’s will sit within the Onside network; a growing number of Youth Zone’s across the UK which are funded, built, supported and launched by the national charity, Onside.

It is Empower Youth Zone’s vision to ensure all young people grow to lead happy, healthy, safe and successful lives.