Lifeguard (Pt)

Job Summary

The lifeguard position holds primary responsibility for patrolling the pool area and enforcing safety rules and facility regulations. This is a safety-sensitive position exercising a high degree of discretion, trust, and confidence to properly execute duties efficiently. Individuals in this position are responsible for ensuring a safe, but fun swimming environment for all users of the aquatics facilities.

Examples of Essential Duties

Patrols the pool area and enforces safety rules and facility regulations.

Responds in a calm, professional manner during stressful situations that may arise while employee is on duty.

Employee will rescue individuals from the pool, assist with emergencies at Town facilities, and administer CPR or First Aid to protect or preserve individual's life.

Immediately reports any incidents, accidents or maintenance problems to the Recreation Coordinator II-Aquatics, Head Lifeguard, and/or Pool Manager, and uses the proper documentation to record an incident or accident.

Responsible for maintaining a high level of personal alertness to be able to detect an individual that may be in need of assistance or is experiencing medical problems.

Maintains a safe and clean work area, performing routine cleaning and maintenance duties as assigned by supervisor promptly and efficiently.

Routinely checks locker rooms to maintain cleanliness and remove hazards. Follows the appropriate procedures for opening and closing the pool and sauna.

Reports promptly for assigned shifts.

Responsible for each assigned or substitution shift. Will arrange substitutions for schedule a minimum of twenty-four hours in advance.

Complies with all policies and regulations of the Recreation Department, the Town and the Health Department.

PERIPHERAL DUTIES:

Attends meetings and training sessions as assigned by supervisor.

Performs other related duties as assigned by supervisor.

Minimum Qualifications

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE:

Must be 16 years of age or older.

Current Lifeguard Training Certification including CPR for the Professional Rescuer, First Aid, and American Red Cross Lifeguard Training.

A combination of education and experience to provide for the necessary knowledge, skills, and abilities.

NECESSARY KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES:

Knowledge of pool and facility rules, regulations and other instructions, sufficient that the employee is able to enforce these guidelines in creating a safe environment for patrons and coworkers.

Considerable knowledge of the equipment, facilities, operations, and techniques to effectively rescue or assist an individual in trouble.

Ability to establish and maintain effective, positive, working relationships with coworkers, supervisors, and the general public.

Necessary skill and ability to communicate effectively, both verbally and in writing with a broad range of individuals.

Ability to learn and the skill necessary to successfully implement job related policies, laws, ordinances, and regulations.

Ability to analyze situations carefully and adopt effective courses of action using problem-solving techniques.

Flexibility of working hours for all shifts including mornings, days, nights, weekends, holidays, and on-call hours.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT USED:

Various equipment used to maintain the pool in the appropriate condition. Tools and equipment required for the safe rescue and resuscitation of individuals in an emergency.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

This job involves various degrees of physical demands, some sedentary, but others may require strenuous physical effort. All positions assigned to the Aquatics Section of the Recreation Department must be able to ensure public safety and participate in the rescue or retrieval of an individual from the pool or assist an individual suffering from a medical condition. There is no position available in this section where an employee can be assured that he or she will not have to become involved in strenuous physical activity in savings an individual's life.

The employee in this position may be required to:

• Sit, stand, talk and hear.

• Communicate clearly and effectively; must understand and be understood.

• Observe activity around the pool and in the pool continuously and for extended periods of time.

• Physically struggle, restrain or otherwise subdue/restrain individuals in a state of distress with various abilities and strength and possess the strength or quickness to rescue endangered persons.

• Use hands, fingers, arms, legs and body, feel objects and manipulate them, operate tools and equipment effectively.

• Use computers for word processing and data entry.

• Reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, taste and smell.

• Lift and/or move objects weighing 100 pounds or more, including the limp body of a person.

• Meet a required level of proficiency with various testing processes used to establish standards for lifeguards and maintain a level of proficiency in such areas.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is consistently required to sit, stand and walk, frequently use hands, fingers, handle, feel or operate objects, tools, or controls and reach with hands and arms. The employee is frequently required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl.

The employee is occasionally required to carry, pull, push, or lift up to 300 pounds with assistance.

Employee must communicate clearly and effectively; must understand and be understood. Must be able to frequently engage in ordinary or telephone conversations with speech and hearing.

Employee must be able to consistently see with near and far acuity, depth perception, color vision and field vision. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close and distance vision acuity, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust his or her focus, allowing a broad field of vision.

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND GENERAL INFORMATION:

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Frequently, the employee will be required to work outside or drive in varying temperatures and conditions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee frequently works in outside conditions. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts; in high, precarious places. The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, hot and/or cold conditions, or airborne particles. The noise level in the work environment is usually high and may range from moderate to high with occasional vibrations. The employee will frequently encounter mists and occasionally encounter fumes, odors, dusts, smoke, gasses and poor ventilation. The employee will occasionally work with hazards such as mechanical, electrical, burns, explosives, or radiant energy and frequently works with pool chemicals.

The duties listed are intended only as illustrations of the various types of work that may be performed, and are in no way construed or perceived to be exhaustive. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related or a logical assignment to the position.

The job description does not constitute an employment agreement between the employer and the employee, and is subject to change by the employer as the needs of the employer and requirements of the position change.

Additional Information

Part-time and Seasonal Town of Parker employees have limited access to benefits which include: employee assistance program (EAP), one (1) hour of sick time accrued for every thirty (30) hours worked, and employee plus one (1) other member in your household a membership to the Parker Recreation Center and/or Fieldhouse. The Town of Parker is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Please contact jobs@parkerco.gov with questions regarding this position. Applicants must have the ability to successfully complete a pre-employment background check.

Full pay range is: $19.10/hr. - $24.20/hr.

Applications will be accepted on a continuous basis until a sufficient number of qualified applications have been received.

As a part-time Town of Parker employee, you have limited access to benefits which include: employee assistance program (EAP), one (1) hour of sick time accrued for every thirty (30) hours worked, and employee plus one (1) other member in your household a membership to the Parker Recreation Center and/or Fieldhouse.

01

Are you 16 years of age or older, OR will you be 16 in the next 3 weeks?

• Yes

• No

02

This position requires a minimum of 12 hours per week, but no more than 29. Are you able to commit to these hour requirements?

• Yes

• No

03

Do you have a current Lifeguard Training Certification including CPR for the Professional Rescuer, First Aid, and American Red Cross Lifeguard Training?

• Yes

• No

Required Question

Agency The Town of Parker

Address 20120 E Mainstreet

Parker, Colorado, 80138

Phone 303-805-3329

Website http://www.parkeronline.org