Trainee Lifeguard

Serco Limited; Chichester; On-site; GBP 15,000 - 19,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Free leisure access

Discounts

SercoLearning

Job summary

Leisure Solutions Community Trust is recruiting Lifeguard Trainees to join our team at Westgate Leisure centre. Part-time and casual hours cover a mix of early and late shifts, including weekends.

The role offers training and development with benefits such as free leisure access and discounts. You will ensure pool safety, provide excellent customer care, supervise activities, and help in maintaining high cleanliness and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Excellent customer service skills and ability to interact with customers of all ages.
• Strong swimming ability and safety awareness.
• Ability to work in a busy leisure environment and stay calm under pressure.

Responsibilities

• Provide high-quality customer care to pool users.
• Supervise pool activities and maintain pool cleanliness and safety standards.
• Support in the setup and safe handling of pool equipment.
• Assist with lifesaving duties when required and follow training.

Skills

Customer service

People-oriented

Team player

Strong swimming

Job description

Location: Westgate Leisure centre, PO19 1RJ
Working hours:Part time and Casual hours available to cover a mixture of early and late shifts including weekends.
Salary:£10.85 to £13.45 per hour + Excellent benefits

At Serco, we're pleased to be recruiting on behalf of Leisure Solutions Community Trust.

Leisure Solutions Community Trustencourages active, healthy lifestyles across the local community. Providing affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities in a safe, clean, friendly and welcoming space, their goal is to support healthier and happier lives for everyone. Delivering these services relies on an enthusiastic, customer-focused team, and they're now looking for TraineeLifeguardsto join their team and help make a positive difference every day.

As a Lifeguard you will 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.

What you'll need to do the role

You'll 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 a strong swimmer, safety conscious, vigilant, and able to deal with pressurised situations.

No previous Lifeguarding experience required, this role is open to anybody who has the desire to be a lifeguard and can meet the minimum requirements in a swim test.

To pass the swim test you must be able to perform the following:

• Jump/dive into deep water
• Swim 50 metres in less than 60 seconds (this is usually 2 lengths of the pool)
• Swim 100 metres continuously on front and back in deep water (this is usually 8 lengths of the pool)
• Tread water for 30 seconds
• Surface dive to the floor of the pool (this is usually no deeper than 2.0m)
• Climb out unaided without ladder/steps and where the pool design permits

Why Join us

Meaningful and vital work:Swimmingpools are the beating hearts of ourleisurecentres and without lifeguards we can't operate. You ensure that our customers can enjoy their activity in safety and when needed you save lives.

A world of opportunity: 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.

Great people: 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 throughSercoLearning.

What we offer

• For all Leisure benefits - Trust and Serco Leisure Employee Benefits