Certified Personal Trainer

Job Description

Job Description

Overview:

Join the Katz JCC team and help members work toward their health and fitness goals. As a Personal Trainer, you will provide individualized fitness instruction and personalized exercise programs, conduct fitness assessments, and develop workouts tailored to each client’s goals, abilities, and physical limitations. You will demonstrate proper exercise technique and offer the guidance and motivation that keep clients moving forward during training sessions, while maintaining client confidentiality, accurate session records, and professional service to members, guests, and staff. In addition to personal training, you will work a minimum of 1–2 fitness floor shifts per week, subject to shift availability, during your first 6 months of employment. On the floor, you will assist members, demonstrate safe equipment use, conduct fitness center orientations, maintain a clean and organized workout area, and report equipment issues or safety concerns. Floor-shift assignments are assessed quarterly in comparison with your personal training load. You will also promote JCC fitness programs and services and help create a safe, welcoming, and supportive fitness environment.

Responsibilities/ Requirements:

Personal Training and Member Assessments

• Develop and deliver personalized exercise programs based on each client’s goals, fitness level, cardiovascular and strength-training abilities, pre-existing conditions, and physical limitations. Provide clear instruction and motivation during training sessions.
• Review each client’s health history before beginning personal training, obtain a medical release for clients with high or multiple risk factors, and maintain the confidentiality of all personal and health information. Encourage new clients to complete a fitness assessment.
• Conduct 30- or 60-minute personal training sessions, as selected by the client, and confirm that the appropriate training package has been purchased in advance.
• New personal trainers are encouraged to conduct the majority of Foundations First new-member assessments, including a movement screen using Kinotek technology.
• Acquire and maintain a minimum of 3 personal training clients within 30 days of hire.
• Develop and coach Small Group Training sessions as assigned.

Fitness Floor Coverage and Member Support

• Work a minimum of 1–2 fitness floor shifts per week, subject to shift availability, during the first 6 months of employment. 
• Perform floor responsibilities, including member assistance, safe equipment instruction, orientations, cleaning and organizing equipment, and reporting safety or equipment concerns. Floor-shift assignments will be assessed quarterly in comparison with the trainer’s personal training load. Personal training during a floor shift requires permission and must not interfere with floor responsibilities or member coverage.
• Provide attentive fitness-floor support by assisting members, demonstrating proper exercise technique and safe equipment use, and explaining equipment-cleaning procedures and fitness center safety expectations.
• Maintain a safe, clean, and organized exercise environment. Wipe down equipment used during training, return equipment after use, and report equipment problems or safety concerns to the Fitness Director or a manager.
• Coordinate training sessions during floor shifts to ensure that floor staff remain available to assist members. Do not schedule overlapping sessions that leave the fitness floor without coverage.
• When working floor shifts, record planned training sessions in the daily agenda book in advance whenever possible. Failure to record sessions may result in forfeiture of sessions based on daily scheduling needs.
• Clock in and out when providing personal training during a floor shift

Scheduling, Payments, and Session Records

• Verify that clients have paid for sessions before recording them in Mindbody. Unpaid sessions will not be validated for payment.
• Maintain accurate client-payment and session records in Mindbody and complete all session entries for payroll by the last Friday of each pay period. Accurate and timely recordkeeping is required to support timely trainer payment.
• Obtain approval from the Personal Trainer Coordinator before transferring training sessions to another member.
• Follow the JCC cancellation policy: clients may be charged for cancellations within 24 hours or for a no-show. Notify the Personal Trainer Coordinator when a no-show charge should apply. Trainers may waive a no-show charge when they determine that mitigating circumstances justify an exception.
• Monitor training-package expiration dates. Unused sessions are forfeited after one year unless an extension or hold is approved. All training-package changes, including extensions and holds for a specified period, must be made by the Fitness Manager or Director.

Professional Standards and Team Participation

• Arrive on time and be prepared for each scheduled training session. If a trainer misses a session without notifying the client, the client is entitled to a free session at the trainer’s expense; the missed session must not be recorded in Mindbody as completed.
• Maintain a professional appearance and follow the JCC uniform requirements. Wear black pants or shorts and a black JCC personal training shirt for personal training sessions, changing out of the blue trainer shirt. Approved staff jackets bearing the JCC logo may be worn over the uniform.
• Use physical contact only to support exercise alignment or direct attention to a targeted area, and only with the client’s agreement. Stop immediately if the client requests it or shows discomfort.
• Maintain professional boundaries and respectful communication. Avoid sexually oriented conversations, foul language, and inappropriate physical contact.
• Do not solicit JCC clients for training outside the JCC. Violation of this policy will result in termination of employment.
• Promote JCC activities, events, fitness programs, and services in an enthusiastic and professional manner.
• Participate in scheduled staff meetings, training, and professional development, and assist with special programs such as the 5K run and Kid’s Inflatable Run.
• Complete at least 10 combined fitness-floor and personal training hours each month to be eligible to use JCC fitness facilities.

Certification Maintenance

• Maintain a valid personal training certification accepted by the JCC: ACE, ACSM, IFPA, NCSF, NASM, NFPT, NSCA, NESTA, or NETA.
• Maintain current CPR certification and renew personal training credentials on time. Trainers with expired personal training credentials may not take on additional clients until renewal is complete and must update their credentials within three months of expiration. Online personal training or CPR certifications are not accepted.
• Employees will have access to club connect as a resources of CEC’s for certification upkeep.

Client Communication and Incident Reporting

• Notify the immediate supervisor of the following client-related changes or incidents:
  • A client ends training because of a trainer change or dissatisfaction on the part of either the client or trainer.

Required Certifications

• A personal training certification from an NCCA-accredited organization (such as NASM, ACE, or ACSM). Candidates who do not yet hold one must earn it within the first 6 months of employment.
• Current CPR & First Aid certification through American Red Cross or American Heart Association

Preferred Education and Experience

• A bachelor’s degree in Exercise Physiology or a related field is preferred.
• At least 6 months to 1-year personal training in the field preferred.

Knowledge and Interpersonal Skills

• Experience and demonstrated knowledge in fitness instruction.

EEO Statement:

The Jewish Federation of Southern New Jersey, and our family of agencies, is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon a person’s actual or perceived gender, race, creed, color, sex (including pregnancy), affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital/civil union status, domestic partnership status, familial status, religion, national origin, nationality, ancestry, age, veteran or military status, disability that does not prohibit performance of essential job functions, or other legally protected characteristics.

The Federation participates in the E-Verify program.

The Federation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, you may contact us via the link on this posting.