Lifeguard

Serco; Bishop's Castle; On-site; GBP 10,000 - 40,000; Part time

Job summary

Join a vibrant team as a Lifeguard in a community-focused leisure centre, where your role is vital to ensuring safety and enjoyment for all visitors. You'll be at the heart of the action, supervising pool activities and providing exceptional customer service to a diverse range of patrons. This position not only offers the chance to make a significant impact but also provides excellent development and training opportunities to advance your career. With a supportive team environment and a commitment to your growth, this role is perfect for someone passionate about health, safety, and community engagement.

Benefits

Free membership at the Centre

Discounted use of classes and facilities

Free safeguarding training

6% employer matched pension contribution

Up to 21 days annual leave + public holidays

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills and strong swimming skills are essential.
• Must hold a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety in the pool area and provide customer care.
• Supervise activities and maintain cleanliness in the pool area.

Skills

Customer Service Skills

Swimming Skills

Safety Awareness

Vigilance

Education

National Pool Lifeguard Qualification

Job description

Working Hours: 30 hours per week, earlies, lates and weekends

Salary: Up to £11.44 per hour + Excellent benefits

Here at Shropshire Leisure Trust, our goal is to encourage active, healthy lifestyles in a safe, warm, clean, friendly, and fun environment. To deliver those services takes an enthusiastic and customer-focused team - and right now we are looking to recruit for a Lifeguard to join our team.

As a Lifeguard, you’ll be an important part of life here at the centre as you ensure that everyone can use the pool safely and that they have access to everything they need to enjoy their visit.

Without you, there can’t be any pool activity. But you won’t be working alone. Our leisure centre has a close-knit and supportive team, all working towards providing an inclusive leisure hub for the entire community. You will also receive fantastic training and development opportunities and benefits including free leisure access and various discounts.

You will help facilitate a safe, fun, and professional working environment with excellent development opportunities and free membership plus various discounts.

What you’ll need to do the role:

You will need to have excellent customer service skills as you’ll be interacting heavily with our customers. Whether you’ve earned that experience in a leisure or another customer-facing environment, you’ll be a people person who is happy dealing with people of all ages and backgrounds.

You will provide customer care to people of all ages, supervise activities, maintain high standards of cleanliness in the pool area, and ensure the safe handling and setup of pool equipment. And of course, when needed – you’ll help to save lives.

As a lifeguard, you’ll naturally need to be safety-conscious, vigilant, and able to deal with pressurized situations. Lastly, you’ll need to have strong swimming skills and it’s essential that you hold a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (Royal Life Saving Society) or equivalent.

If you feel you meet the above criteria, please apply today!

Why Join us:

A place you can make an impact: Swimming pools are the beating hearts of our leisure centres and without lifeguards, we cannot operate. You ensure that our customers can enjoy their activity in safety and when needed, you save lives.

A place you can count on: Our lifeguards are integral to the running of our centres, so as well as progressing into senior lifeguard positions, you can move into other centre management roles in one of our 55 facilities.

A place for you: Our centres are close-knit and friendly, and we rely on each other for support. As well as the backing of the team, you’ll also find all the resources you need for career progression through Serco Learning.

What we offer:

• Free membership at the Centre plus heavily discounted use of classes and facilities
• Free safeguarding training and DBS check
• Excellent Development and Training Opportunities
• 6% employer matched pension contribution
• Up to 21 days annual leave + public holidays (Pro Rata)

Serco/Serco Leisure Operating Limited are appointed as the Trust’s Managing Agents. We manage the recruitment process and the Trust’s employees in the delivery of the service on their behalf. The Trust is committed to equal opportunities and requests any potential applicant to contact the Recruitment Team on 0345 010 4000 as soon as possible if an applicant has any additional queries or requirements. Applicants should be aware that in line with the company’s policy, employees will have a DBS check where appropriate.