Summary
Location
Georgetown
Type
full-time
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About this role
Touchmark at Georgetown is a full-service retirement community, enriching the lives of residents and their families through five-star hospitality, services and amenities. We are currently seeking the right person to join our health and fitness team as a Fitness Professional.
As a Fitness Professional, you will enrich lives each day by assisting, monitoring, and instructing residents in the safe and effective use of equipment and weight machines in order to meet their personal fitness goals and needs. You will conduct fitness consultations and assessments in order to help develop individualized fitness programs that ensure resident safety and follow each resident's care plan.
If you are enthusiastic and passionate about helping senior adults achieve and maintain new levels of physical fitness; if you are looking for the opportunity to be part of a team of like-minded fitness professionals – not just another contract employee; and if you are serious about providing 5-star hospitality to the people you serve, then we want to talk to you about this exciting opportunity!
Ideal candidates will have:
- A commitment to Touchmark’s values (excellence, teamwork, hospitality, integrity, and compassion), as well as a desire to model these values and to encourage others to be allies, friends and givers
- Current certification through a nationally accredited organization (such as ACSM, NSCA, NASM, ACE) is required
- A four-year college degree in an exercise science-related discipline
- A genuine interest in working with adults (age 40+) to help them achieve their physical fitness goals
- Experience instructing group exercise classes in the format their certification is in
- A positive, upbeat, and energetic approach to health, wellness, teamwork, and hospitality
- Experience working with aging adults and/or special fitness populations; experience in a retirement community setting is a plus
- Current CPR/First Aid/AED certification, or be willing to obtain upon hire
Other facts
About Touchmark
Touchmark is an award-winning developer, owner, and operator of full-service retirement communities throughout North America, offering older adults a broad range of lifestyle options, five-star amenities, and levels of care. Each one of our communities is unique, but all are motivated by a common mission: To enrich people’s lives. The ladies and gentlemen who serve in our communities have been enriching the lives of older adults and their families since Touchmark was founded in 1980, and we hire people who share the same core values that the company was built upon—hospitality, compassion, excellence, teamwork, and integrity.
The culture in our communities is rich with people who are allies, friends, and givers—both toward their co-workers and toward residents and their family members. People who value laughter and shared memories, and who celebrate humanity and aging with dignity. People who are compassionate and encouraging, and who find satisfaction in providing genuine hospitality.
If making others feel valued and special is what motivates you, you’re our type of people. To learn more about exciting career opportunities, please visit our careers page at http://touchmark.net/careers/.
What you'll do
- As a Fitness Professional, you will assist, monitor, and instruct residents in the safe use of fitness equipment. You will also conduct fitness assessments to develop individualized programs that align with residents' care plans.
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