EXERCISE & SPORTS SCIENCE COACH
FULL-TIME GRADUATE COACHING ROLE
what we offer
Full Time Employment
We believe all team members should be paid fairly for the efforts, and spend time focusing on client outcomes, not stressing about making rental payments to a gym.
That’s why all our team members are full time, salaried employees, with sick leave, annual leave and public holiday entitlements. Best of all, no split-shifts
No Rent to Pay
We don’t believe in the rental model run at commercial gyms. Why? Because stressing about making rental payments isn’t good for the trainer, or the client. Trainers should be focused on delivering the best possible service to their clients, and clients deserve a trainer that’s focused on helping them achieve their goals, not the other way around.
Industry Leading Pay
We want all our trainers to not only just be paid fairly, but be paid well. We will give you all the tools needed to be a successful fitness professional and help you meet the required competencies in order to level up your pay every single quarter.
Real Career Progression
At Dukes, we believe fitness is not just a job, it’s a career. That’s why we’ve mapped out a clear career progression pathway for our team. This allows them to learn the skills they need to help clients, develop and lead teams and ultimately lead facilities.
GET REAL WORLD EXPERIENCE AS A COACH SO YOU CAN GO ON TO BE A GREAT PRACITIONER
If you would like to enter a high performance coaching role or enter private practice, our coaching role is a perfect starting point. You’ll get the real world experience that employers look for, and you’ll be able to use your degree to help clients achieve their health and fitness goals.
Client
experience.
Client-facing role.
Our coaching roles are client-facing roles, which means that you will have plenty of opportunities to gain first-hand experience working with clients.
People skills.(the ability to conduct yourself as a practitioner)
Professional development.
We have extensive professional development material on exactly how to build rapport quickly and what it means to conduct yourself as a Health and fitness practitioner.
Exercise
selection.
Autonomy over building workouts.
You will have autonomy over your own workouts as well as support from our other coaches on exactly how to program.
Developing
management plans
Guidance on building out training blocks
Management plans are designed to help with the client's rehabilitation journey. When you're building out training blocks, they are designed to help clients with their health and fitness goals.
Servicing a busy
caseload
Working with a full book of clients
You will have the opportunity to build your schedule of clients and gain first-hand experience of what it's like to work with a busy caseload.
WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
Bachelor of Exercise & Sports Science qualification
You are a citizen or permanent resident who can commute daily to Richmond or Abbotsford
You are available Monday to Friday, 12pm to 8pm
You are looking to put what you've learned at university into practice
You’re looking to be part of a team
You’re actively looking to improve
You live and breathe health and fitness
You are coachable - you can receive guidance and most importantly, execute on it
Experience is not essential. The right attitude, willingness to learn and work ethic is.
WHAT TYPE OF CLIENTS DO WE TRAIN?
We are lucky enough to train some of our communities best people (yes, we might be a little biased 😅). Our typical clients are:
- Between 16 and 68 years old – we train people of all ages
- Looking to lose weight, put on muscle and live generally healthier lives
- Investing time out of their busy schedules to better themselves
While we welcome people with all goals and ambitions, for the most part you won’t find a lot of high performance athletes, bodybuilders or aspiring social media influencers amongst the coaching client base.
Our core clients are regular, down to earth, everyday people.
That’s not to say each team member isn’t highly accomplished in their own pursuits (we have ex powerlifters, body builders, triathletes and marathon runners on the team).
But our job at Dukes is to share our personal love of fitness with clients that may need a little extra support and guidance. We focus on making sure their training blocks are results driven and they come to a gym where they feel like they belong.
We’re here to make the gym fun and put our clients at the centre of our efforts.
so what’s next?
As a fitness professional you’re always looking to level up. A career with Dukes Gym opens up the doors to a world of possibilities.
As a member of the Dukes team, you’ll be given the support, direction and accountability you need to be a success.
If you trust in the process and execute consistently, you’ll progress your career with the business from a new recruit to a senior team member within 24 months. You’ll go from learning, to executing, to coaching others all while getting significant pay reviews as you move through the levels.
FOUNDATIONS
Junior Coach
Understanding the basics of how to be a personal trainer so you can contribute to the team’s success.
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learn
Coach
Developing skills as a coach so you can communicate effectively & build your knowledge around nutrition, session delivery and sales.
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S&C Coaching
High Performance Coach
Take what you’ve learned during your foundations and learn stages to become a high-performance strength and conditioning coach.
Allied Health
Healthcare Practitioner
You have now coached hundreds of clients. Take this experience and step into private practice as a practitioner.
Level Up
Physiotherapy degree
Head back to university to complete your Masters in Physiotherapy to become a practicing physiotherapist.
your questions answered.
How do I get clients?
At Dukes, coaching options are given to prospective members when they sign up so people can pick which option suits them best right from the start. Everyone that walks through the door has something they’re looking to achieve in the gym. Coaching just helps get them there quicker. We’ve found about 20% of new members opted to get help from a coach straight away, which is where the majority of clients come from.
What am I doing when I’m not training people?
When you’re not training clients you’re working towards building your books, up-skilling to get better at your craft and helping with gym operations.
How long does it take before team members are confidently delivering sessions?
To go from brand new, having never trained clients before to delivering sessions confidently it takes about 6 months. You learn the basics pretty quickly (usually within 4-6 weeks) but it takes some time and repetition to really be comfortable in the role and deliver sessions seamlessly.
Quarterly team activities
It’s important to celebrate the wins. That’s why every quarter we host events and activities outside the gym so we can have some fun, bond as a team and take some time to reflect on all we’ve achieved over the last few months.
hear from our team
This is not just a job, this is a career.
Our coaching role is the perfect launch pad for your career within the health and fitness industry. You’ll learn all the fundamentals needed to not just be an effective coach, but a great practitioner.
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Jonno
"By starting out as a coach, I was able to hone those skills across hundreds of clients in a low-risk environment. Understanding what the client's baseline is and where we want to end up taking them."
David
Dukes Team Member
You’ll be part of a high performance team that genuinely cares about their clients and lifting each other up.
You will be part of daily team meetings, quarterly goal setting sessions and regular professional development sessions run by some of the industry’s most respected names. Best of all, you’ll have direct access to some of the country’s most successful Personal trainers. So you can learn from the best in order to be the best.
We only invite people onto the team that display our values which are centered around self improvement, taking action, long term thinking and mostly importantly fun. We are looking for team mates who:
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