Senior Aquatics Lifeguard

Talent Propeller Limited; Rolleston; On-site; NZD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Life insurance

Wellbeing and volunteer leave

3 days paid leave between Christmas &

2 weeks paid Partners Leave

Sick leave from day 1

Discounts with local and national

Job summary

Selwyn District Council’s Selwyn Aquatic Centre in Rolleston (Canterbury) is seeking a Senior Lifeguard to supervise on shift, lead the team, and uphold a safe, welcoming environment for all facility users.

You will deliver customer service, assist rostering, conduct water quality testing, report, and drive training and development while proactively supervising to prevent incidents.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering exceptional customer service to facility users.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment.
• Proactively supervise pool environment to prevent incidents.

Responsibilities

• Supervise Lifeguards on shift and lead by example.
• Assist with rostering and staff development.
• Conduct water quality testing and report results.
• Provide day-to-day guidance and support to the team.
• Deliver ongoing training and development for the team.
• Troubleshoot issues as they arise.

Skills

Customer service

Teamwork

Lifeguard supervision

Water testing oversight

Education

Lifeguard certification

Job description

(Gain practical leadership experience in the Sport and Recreation industry)

About the role:

As a Senior Lifeguard at Selwyn Aquatic Centre, you will supervise the Lifeguards on shift, leading by example to ensure we are maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for all of our facility users by:

• Delivering exceptional customer service
• Assisting with rostering
• Water quality testing
• Reporting
• Promoting and delivering ongoing training and development for the team
• Troubleshooting
• Providing professional day to day guidance and support to the team

This role is 76 hours per fortnight working the following roster:

Week One

Tuesday - Friday 5.30am - 1.30pm and Saturday 5.30am - 2.00pm

Week Two

Tuesday - Friday 1.30pm - 9.30pm and Saturday 12-8.30pm

• Experienced in delivering exceptional customer service to our facility users
• The ability to work effectively in a team environment is essential
• Pro-actively supervise the pool environment to prevent incidents, accidents, emergencies, and hazards.
• Confident swimming ability, you will be required to complete a swim test as follows

200m continuously in less than 6 mins

50m breaststroke

25m side stroke

• mins treading water.

Picking up an object from deepest part of pool (2m)

What we can offer:

• Great work-life balance with flexibility
• Career coaching and development
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing and volunteer leave
• 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• 2 weeks paid Partners Leave
• Sick leave from day 1
• Discounts with local and national businesses

About us:

Selwyn is one of the fastest-growing districts in New Zealand. We have a fantastic quality of life, great communities, and a thriving economy. Our Council works actively with residents to provide the services and facilities that help our communities to thrive and grow.

Selwyn Aquatic Centre is based in Rolleston (only 25km from Christchurch), which offers an enviable family lifestyle, outstanding local facilities and an easy drive to the ski fields, rivers and hills that make up Canterbury's stunning landscape.

Our values are important to us and represent the way we work: Be a good human Be brave - Think differently Better together. Make it Happen for Selwyn.

We honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with our Treaty partner to deliver on our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We value the safety of our staff and facility users - this role requires a satisfactory safety check including police vetting and you to pass pre employment drug and alcohol testing and on an ongoing random basis.