What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lifeguard - Donna Fiala Eagle Lakes Community Park position at Collier County?
Ensures the safety of aquatic facility users by preventing accidents, providing water safety education, and executing professional lifesaving services to swimmers in need and maintain swimming pool and facility.
- Monitors swimmers to determine if emergency life-saving services are needed; rescues distressed swimmers; and provides CPR/AED as needed.
- Prevents injuries by monitoring the facility and facility use; provides water safety education; and monitors water quality.
- Maintains a high level of skill and emergency rescue readiness through drills, in-service training, and physical conditioning.
- Maintains discipline at the facility; ensures that safety rules and regulations are followed; reports problems to supervisor; and assists with the removal of patrons causing disturbances or an unsafe environment.
- Provides basic first aid; monitors first aid supplies; restocks first aid cabinets; and completes injury/accident reports.
- Provides customer service; answers questions and provides information to visitors; assists the public when clearing pools.
- Provides swim instruction through the Swim Central initiative; responsible for adjusting curriculum to meet individual student learning needs and end-of-program assessment; instructs aquatic exercise classes and assists with the development and implementation of program curriculum.
- Sets up facilities for daily use, party rentals, and special events.
- Inspects operational and rescue equipment to ensure that it is in appropriate condition; inspects aquatic facility for possible safety problems and reports any findings to supervisor.
- Performs facility maintenance and minor repair duties such as waxing slides, vacuuming pool, cleaning pool tiles, cleaning restrooms, painting, and other cleaning and repair duties as assigned; reports facility maintenance concerns to supervisor.
- Monitors water quality through water testing, records results, and notifies the on-deck supervisor if results are outside of Health Department standards.
ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
• Assists in the development and implementation of aquatic activities and events.
• Assists with park special events.
• Performs other related duties as required.
- Must be sixteen (16) years of age.
- Fingerprinting Required.
- Must possess and maintain a current Lifeguard certification.
- Must possess and maintain current CPR, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), and First Aid certification.
- Salary offers above the minimum pay grade may be considered based on qualifications. (Promotions do not get this).
- Essential Employees may be required to work during an undeclared or declared emergency. The County’s Administrative Office will determine who will be required to work on an incident-by-incident basis.
- This job posting is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills, or working conditions associated with the position.
Salary : $18
