What are the responsibilities and job description for the Summer Lifeguard position at YMCA Southcoast?
YMCA Southcoast
Job Description
Job Title: Lifeguard
Job Family: Aquatics
Position Summary:
Maintains a safe, welcoming environment and healthy conditions in the swimming pool, on the deck, and in the surrounding areas. Creates a positive, responsive atmosphere promoting safety and engagement.
This is a seasonal position that will support pool traffic and YMCA programs during the summer months.
Essential Functions:
Mission and Community Oriented: Accepts and demonstrates YMCA values. Works effectively with people of different backgrounds, abilities, opinions and perceptions. Demonstrates a desire to serve others and fulfill a community need. Recruits volunteers and builds effective, supportive working relationships with them.
People Oriented: Seeks first to understand the other’s point of view; remains calm in challenging situations. Builds rapport and relates well to others. Listens for understanding and meaning; speaks and writes effectively. Takes initiative in developing others.
Results Oriented: Strives to meet or exceed goals and deliver a high value experience for members. Embraces new approaches and discovers ideas to create a better member experience. Makes sound judgments and transfers learning from one situation to another. Establishes goals, clarifies work, and participates in meetings.
Personal Development Oriented: Accurately assess personal feelings, strengths and limitations, and how they impact relationships. Pursues self-development that enhance job performance. Demonstrates an openness to change; seeks opportunities in the change process.
Qualifications:
Job Description
Job Title: Lifeguard
Job Family: Aquatics
Position Summary:
Maintains a safe, welcoming environment and healthy conditions in the swimming pool, on the deck, and in the surrounding areas. Creates a positive, responsive atmosphere promoting safety and engagement.
This is a seasonal position that will support pool traffic and YMCA programs during the summer months.
Essential Functions:
- Maintains constant surveillance of the pool and the pool areas.
- Maintains current knowledge of all emergency procedures within pool and pool area.
- Responds to emergency situations immediately in accordance with YMCA policies and procedures; provides timely and accurate reports and follow-ups.
- Knows, understands, and consistently applies health and safety rules, policies, guidelines for the pool and pool area.
- Maintains accurate records required by YMCA and state agencies.
- Perform equipment checks and ensure availability of required equipment,
- Perform chemical testing as prescribed; take immediate corrective action as needed.
Mission and Community Oriented: Accepts and demonstrates YMCA values. Works effectively with people of different backgrounds, abilities, opinions and perceptions. Demonstrates a desire to serve others and fulfill a community need. Recruits volunteers and builds effective, supportive working relationships with them.
People Oriented: Seeks first to understand the other’s point of view; remains calm in challenging situations. Builds rapport and relates well to others. Listens for understanding and meaning; speaks and writes effectively. Takes initiative in developing others.
Results Oriented: Strives to meet or exceed goals and deliver a high value experience for members. Embraces new approaches and discovers ideas to create a better member experience. Makes sound judgments and transfers learning from one situation to another. Establishes goals, clarifies work, and participates in meetings.
Personal Development Oriented: Accurately assess personal feelings, strengths and limitations, and how they impact relationships. Pursues self-development that enhance job performance. Demonstrates an openness to change; seeks opportunities in the change process.
Qualifications:
- Minimum age of 15 years
- CPR for the Professional Rescuer w/AED (infant/child/adult) and Basic First Aid Certifications
- Current Certification: YMCA Lifeguarding and/or Red Cross Lifeguarding Certification.
- Receive YMCA Lifeguarding Certification within 90 days of hire, or as soon as class is offered in the Association.
- Ability to achieve Oxygen Administration Certification within 30 days of hire.
- Ability to maintain certification level of physical and mental alertness.
- Ability to react to emergency situations by quick movements, strenuous activity, and on occasion assist or lift persons in distress of varying weights.
- Required to remain alert to dangerous situations while sitting, standing, or walking for various lengths of time.
- Ability to communicate verbally across distances in a noisy environment.
Salary : $16 - $16
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