About This Role
This part-time Lifeguard position at Sunnyside Golf & Country Club involves supervising swimming activities, ensuring safety procedures are followed, and administering first aid when necessary. The role suits a candidate focused on providing superior service in a hospitality environment.
Responsibilities
- Supervise swimming activities at the aquatics facility and ensure that policies, guidelines, and safety procedures are followed
- Warn swimmers of improper activities or danger and enforce pool regulations and water safety policies
- Administer first aid in the event of injury, rescue swimmers in distress or danger of drowning, and administer CPR and/or artificial respiration, if necessary
- Evaluate conditions for safety and initiate aquatics emergency action plan as required
- Inspect pool facilities, equipment, and water to ensure that they are safe and usable
- Supervise and assist in cleaning the pool and related facilities and equipment
- Assist with chlorine residual water tests and with records and charts of water tests and records of accidents, and add chemicals to pool water as directed
- Instruct or assist classes in fundamentals of swimming as needed
- Resolve scheduling conflicts to ensure a safe pool environment when competing programs/priorities require use of aquatic facilities
Requirements
- Knowledge and ability to evaluate water conditions at aquatics facilities, at the beach/ocean, or other offsite natural pools, streams, or rivers to determine any potential dangers or hazards
- Ability to adjust programs as necessary to ensure the safety of the visitors and other staff
- Swimming proficiency and comfort in all types of water conditions
- Ability to judge and evaluate evolving dynamics of individuals participating in aquatic activities to immediately assess their capabilities and threats to their safety
- Knowledge of on-site protocols, operational procedures, and safety policies
- Knowledge of methods and techniques for providing on-site emergency medical services
- Certified Red Cross Lifeguard Training Certificate, or equivalent
- American Red Cross CPR for the Professional Rescuer, or equivalent
- American Red Cross Standard First Aid, or equivalent
