Lifeguard

Mitie Cleaning & Hygiene Services; Fareham; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an established industry player as a Lifeguard, where you'll deliver exceptional service to armed forces personnel and their families. This role requires a confident and physically fit individual who can maintain safety standards and provide excellent customer service. You'll be part of a versatile team, ensuring the swimming pool area is hygienic and safe for all users. With opportunities for training and development, this position is ideal for those looking to make a positive impact in a supportive environment. If you're proactive, reliable, and ready to embrace new challenges, this role is for you.

Benefits

Flexible lifestyle benefits

High street discounts

Cycle to work scheme

Enhanced pension contributions

Life cover up to four times salary

Career pathway opportunities

Virtual GP access

Financial wellbeing assistance

Qualifications

• Must hold an RLSS National Pool Lifeguard Qualification.
• Trained in First Aid is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Ensure safety and good conduct of all swimming pool users.
• Lead in emergency situations and monitor pool usage.

Skills

Communication Skills

Teamwork

First Aid Training

Customer Service

Physical Fitness

Education

Good Standard of Education

RLSS National Pool Lifeguard Qualification

IOSH Working Safely Certificate

Job description

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Lifeguard

An opportunity to join an experienced, versatile team, delivering a first-class Lifeguard service to our world class Armed Forces personnel and associated civilian staff and families.

Position Overview

Based in HMS COLLINGWOOD, the post holder will deliver confident and competent lifeguarding around the Swimming Pool in the Sports and Recreation Centre.

Main Responsibilities

• Complying with the Normal Pool Operating Procedures, ensure the safety and good conduct of all swimming pool users.
• Lead in emergency situations.
• Monitor usage of the Pool.
• Ensure equipment is efficiently utilised and the pool area, including changing rooms are maintained to a high hygienic standard.
• Maintain an acceptable level of fitness and competency to be able to recover an adult from the pool.
• Take readings and water samples from the pool daily, keeping appropriate records to ensure the swimming pool meets recommended and legislated quality measures. Undertake any additional tasks as determined by the Line Manager, including support for extraneous events.
  
  

What we are looking for

The successful candidate will be physically fit, well-organised, confident with credible communication skills readily able and willing to contribute at all levels. In addition, the individual will be versatile, intuitive, and professional with good judgement and absolute integrity. Pro-active and when required and responsive to changing needs of the business and demands of the customer, while remaining calm under pressure and self-motivated, the incumbent will be reliable and well presented, giving a positive image of MITIE company values. In addition, the following is needed.

• RLSS National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (in date) (Essential)
• Experience in similar role (desirable)
• Record of in-house Lifeguard Training
• Trained in First Aid (highly desirable)
• IOSH Working Safely Certificate (desirable).
• Good organisational and motivational skills and a high degree of integrity.
• Proven track record of delivering a quality service with customer facing experience.
• Persuasive and credible verbal and written communicator with the ability to develop close working relationships.
• IT literate.
• Proactive approach and the ability to embrace change.
• Ability to manage short notice changes to requirements and deadline.
• Good standard of education.
  
  

Additional Information

MOD security clearance and DBS Standard required. To meet national security vetting requirements, you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3 years to gain a Counter Terrorist Check, 5 years for Security Clearance and 10 years for Developed Vetting prior to the date of application. All Developed Vetted posts are required to be UK Nationals.

Proof of right to work in UK essential.

About The Company

Required to wear approved company work wear.

Mitie is a business of 77,500 colleagues making us the UK's leading facilities management company. Mitie's vision is to work together to deliver the exceptional, every day. It is a commitment we make to our customers day in, day out. We are built on integrity and trust. We always go the extra mile to get the job done.

We champion diversity and inclusion and have six employee networks offering supportive spaces for military veterans, parents and carers, LGBTQ+, women, disabled colleagues, and for all races and ethnicities. Mitie has a comprehensive and practical approach to achieving net zero carbon. A wide variety of benefits are available to employees, including additional leave purchase, Give as You Earn, Salary Finance, Save as You Earn, Share Incentive Plan, Cycle to Work, purchase of private medical cover, life cover, technical equipment, childcare vouchers, and more. A reward and recognition scheme are in place and a wide variety of high street discounts are available to claim. There are career pathway opportunities, such as workplace apprenticeships and leadership development programmes, and an offer is made to ‘give back' to the community during paid time. Please ask more about these benefits at interview.

Additional information for internal applicants

Please ensure that you discuss your application with your current line manager before formally applying. Please note that internal job moves are subject to the standard terms for the post being advertised. Enhanced terms cannot be honoured.

Our market-leading offering provides you with benefits that suit your lifestyle.

We have a virtual GP on hand for you and members of your household. So you can get expert advice by video or phone without having to leave your home. We offer financial wellbeing assistance through our Salary Finance scheme. For example, you could access 50% of your earned pay before payday for a small fee. Salary Finance also offers competitive loans.

When you join us, we’ll give you a link to our flexible lifestyle benefits platform, Choices. You might choose to purchase up to five extra days’ holiday each year. You might buy critical illness insurance, seek dental treatment or buy technology products at an affordable cost. There are many choices!

We give you access to high street discounts from thousands of well-known retailers, gyms and more through our MiDeals platform. And we have a cycle-to-work scheme. Life cover of up to four times your salary is available. We also offer enhanced pension contributions, a save-as-you-earn scheme, and a Mitie Matching Share Plan (you could even be awarded free shares in Mitie).

We award our employees with Mitie Stars as recognition for their hard work. There are cash prizes up for grabs each month and at the end of the year there’s a chance to scoop a top prize of £10,000!

Our success is a direct result of the experience and quality of our people. Progressing your career is therefore a top priority for us. We offer a diverse variety of training and development avenues via a wide selection of learning resources to suit you.

We are committed to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive and accessible to all. If you have a disability or long-term condition (for example dyslexia, anxiety, autism, a mobility condition or hearing loss) and need us to make any reasonable adjustments, changes or do anything differently during the recruitment process, please let us know by emailing at .

Since 1987, Mitie’s 72,000 employees have been maintaining companies globally. We are the UK’s leading facilities management and professional services company, and our clients range from household names in banking, critical government sites as well as hospitals and schools.

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