Casual Lifeguard

London Youth
Full Time
Amersham
£12.00 / hour
Posted 3 days ago

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Job Description

As a Lifeguard you are essential in ensuring the safety of all visitors to our Leisure Centre. You have excellent swimming skills, are safety-minded, and able to swiftly assess situations and make careful decisions regarding swimmer safety. You will work as part of a welcoming team that is instrumental in delivering outstanding customer experiences, maintaining orderliness and cleanliness across our leisure facilities, including swimming pool areas and changerooms. This is a customer facing role, and as such you must be ready to communicate with a diverse range of clients, including the public, children and young people, youth group leaders and teachers

Key Responsibilities

Lifeguarding
• Supervision of the pool during swimming, ensuring safety procedures are followed.
• Administer first aid in the event of injury, rescues swimmers in distress or danger of drowning, and undertake CPR and/or artificial respiration, if necessary.
• Attend regular lifeguard training sessions,
Leisure Operations
• Interact with the public and welcome all users of the facilities,
• Assist in the preparation for, and operation of events and activities,
• Ensure a consistently high level of cleanliness is always maintained throughout the centre.
• Support sales in the leisure retail shop, including inventory control.
Health & Safety
• Operate in accordance with Woodrow's operating procedures and appropriate National Governing Body guidelines.

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Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

Qualifications
Current NPLQ (National Pool Lifeguard Qualification) (ESSENTIAL)

Desirable Experience, Knowledge & Skills
Experience as a lifeguard/ leisure assistant in a leisure environment
Experience working in a customer facing environment,

Essential Personal Attributes
Customer centric mindset
Enthusiastic with a positive attitude to swimming
Able to quickly establish rapport and build effective relationships across a range of personas
Composed demeanour,
Articulate communicator,
Collaborative team player with a willingness to work effectively with others
Able to work independently, demonstrating proactivity and initiative
Self-motivated with a positive attitude, impeccable work ethic and a flexible approach to work
Passionate and demonstrably committed to improving the lives of children and young people
Absolute commitment to London Youth's principles of equality, diversity, and inclusion
Absolute discretion and ability to maintain confidentiality
Passionate about leisure and sport opportunities to support health and wellbeing outcomes

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Here are just a few of the fantastic perks of working for London Youth at Woodrow High House:

• Pledge to being a Real Living Wage employer with wages set by Living Wage Foundation • Generous holiday allowance - 31 days annual leave p.a., plus 8 bank holidays for FTE.
• Free meals provided whilst on duty when the kitchen is serving young people in residence
• Free tea and coffee available in "Tea & Coffee Bar"
• Free onsite parking
• Branded quality uniform provided
• Cycle to Work scheme
• Healthcare Cashback Plan to help cover your healthcare essentials
• Free access for you and your family to the Employee Assistance Programme
• Free access to the 'Headspace' wellbeing application
• Eyecare vouchers
• Magnificent location on a historic estate, surrounded by nature

You'll be working with a fantastic team of passionate colleagues across London Youth

• An outstanding culture and ethos where staff and visitors enjoy, challenge, and achieve • Occasional supply of sweet - sometimes savoury - always yummy - treats are guaranteed
• You will be making a difference to the lives of young people!

About London Youth

We are London Youth: a charity on a mission to support the capital's youth sector to improve the lives of young people. We do this with and through our members - a network of 600 youth organisations - and at our two outdoor residential centres, Hindleap Warren and Woodrow High House.

Throughout our 135-year history, community youth organisations have provided a constant lifeline and a vital safe space outside the family and formal education, where young people can develop confidence, resilience and skills. Young people need opportunities outside school to have fun with their friends, to make a positive change in their communities and to shape the city they live in.

We look to work with all young people, focusing particularly on those who wouldn't otherwise have access to the kind of opportunities we offer.

In 2022-2023, we worked with 571 member youth organisations who supported more than 650k+ young Londoners. 24,680 young people took part in our programme events and activities, with 15,000 enjoying activities at our two outdoor learning centres, Woodrow and Hindleap. We supported 1,442 youth professionals at over 164 of our training and network sessions.