Casual Lifeguard

Wave Active; Brighton; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking charity as a Casual Lifeguard, where your role is crucial in ensuring the safety and well-being of all visitors at the Saltdean Lido. This position not only involves surveillance and emergency response but also offers a chance to engage with the community and promote active lifestyles. Be part of a team that values health and fitness, ensuring a welcoming environment for all. Your dedication will help foster a safe and enjoyable experience for patrons, making a positive impact on their health journeys. If you're passionate about safety and community service, this role is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Must maintain a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification.
• Strong focus on customer service and safety.

Responsibilities

• Maintain constant surveillance of customers in the facility.
• Provide emergency care and treatment as required.
• Ensure cleanliness and hygiene standards are met.

Skills

Lifeguarding

First Aid

Customer Service

Health and Safety Compliance

Education

National Pool Lifeguard Qualification

Job description

Role: Casual Lifeguard

Hours: 0-39 hours per week

Location: Saltdean Lido

Salary: £11.44 per hour (+ holiday pay)

Closing Date: 27^th March 2025

Background

Wave Active is an award-winning charity and social enterprise, supporting our local communities with facilities, activities, and services to inspire active lifestyles.

Our purpose is to “Inspire Active Lifestyles” and vision, “To be at the heart of the improvement of health and wellbeing in the Community”.

We are passionate about providing services and opportunities that support individuals to gain, regain or maintain health, fitness and wellbeing improvements. Managing 15 leisure facilities and Newhaven Fort, across the Lewes District and Eastbourne Borough of East Sussex we provide health and fitness services for both members and non-members of all ages to participate in, whether that be through sport, group exercise, gym, swim, play or health services.

While we offer a range of facilities and activities across our multifunctional spaces, our team is key to creating an approachable environment enabling individuals to prioritise their wellbeing and their health journey.

Formed in 2006 Wave Active continues to ensure all surplus revenues generated from activities are reinvested back into the community in the form of facility developments and refurbishments, new programmes of activity and to support those with health conditions to make health improvements.

The Post in Context

The key purpose of this post is to maintain constant surveillance of customers in the facility; acting immediately and appropriately to secure the safety of customers in the event of emergency. When necessary, you will provide emergency care and treatment as required until the arrival of emergency medical services.

Customer Service

The priorities of the Lifeguards are:

1. To provide a friendly and efficient service to all customers.
2. To pro-actively provide information to promote the Lido to the public at all times.
3. To respond positively to customer enquiries.

General Tasks

• To clean all areas of the Lido, including pool hall, changing rooms, toilets, showers, storeroom and drains to ensure exceptional standards of hygiene and cleanliness.
• To ensure that all users behave in an orderly manner at all times and take appropriate action should any member of the public misuse the facilities.
• To assist with the delivery of continuous improvement plans.
• To assist in the maintenance, use and updating of safety equipment and to ensure that the requirements of the Health and Safety at Work Act are properly adhered to.
• To be diligent about compliance with the Trust’s Health and Safety Policy.
• To take on relevant responsibilities during Emergency Procedures.

General Tasks – Wet Side

• To lifeguard and supervise the pool area, assist swimmers in difficulty, undertake any necessary life-saving operations and apply First Aid as needed.
• To supervise changing rooms, showers and associated areas.
• To make and record periodic checks on chemical levels of the pool water and report to a Operations Manager should it fail to meet the required standards.
• To ensure the day to day preparation of the pool facilities for swimming lessons, special water activities and private parties.
• To assist the Operations Manager in organising special water activities for children during the school holidays.
• To maintain a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification including attendance at staff training on a monthly basis.

Other Duties

• To carry out other duties as required.
• To adhere to Wave Active Limited’s policies and procedures.