Senior Lifeguard

Serco; Whitchurch; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company is seeking a Senior Lifeguard to promote safety and enjoyment in our leisure centre's swimming pool. This role includes supervising pool activities, maintaining cleanliness, and ensuring patrons' safety. Join our friendly team where you can make an impact and benefit from excellent training and development opportunities.

Benefits

Free membership at the Centre

Heavily discounted use of classes and facilities

Excellent Development and Training Opportunities

6% employer matched pension contribution

Up to 21 days annual leave + public holidays

Life assurance up to 2x base salary

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills required.
• Strong swimming skills essential.
• Must hold a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification.

Responsibilities

• Supervise pool activities and maintain cleanliness.
• Ensure safety and deal with emergency situations.
• Provide customer care to all ages.

Skills

Customer Service

Swimming Skills

Safety Consciousness

Education

National Pool Lifeguard Qualification

Job description

Select how often (in days) to receive an alert:

Working Hours:37 hours per week, earlies, lates and weekends

Salary: £12.26 per hour + Excellent benefits

Here at Shropshire Leisure Trust our goal is to encourage active, healthy lifestyles in an environment that is safe, warm, clean, friendly and fun. To be the destination of choice for being part of an active community, whilst helping you to make MORE of every day’. To deliver those services takes an enthusiastic and customer focused team - and right now we are looking to recruit for a Senior Lifeguard to join our team.

As a Senior Lifeguard you’ll be an important part of life here at the centre as you ensure that everyone can use the pool in safety 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 other various discounts.

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

Serco manages these facilities on a day-to-day basis on behalf of the Trust.

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. So, 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 be providing customer care to people of all ages, supervising activities, maintaining high standards of cleanliness in the pool area, and ensuring the safe handling and set up 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 pressurised 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 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 Centreplus 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 21days annual leave + public holidays (Pro Rata)
• Life assurance up to 2x base salary
• For all Leisure benefits please seeEmployee Benefits (moreleisure.com)

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, requirements or will need additional time in submitting an application. Applicants should be aware that in line with the company’s policy, employees will have a DBS check where appropriate.