Lifeguard

Scope:

The Lifeguard ensures the safety of all members and guests to the pool areas of the fitness, tennis and spa facility. Maintains clean sanitary environments of the pool areas, monitors pool areas, and participates in stocking of pool linens and laundry as needed.

Position Type:

Seasonal for Summer of 2025                                                                                               

Primary Responsibilities:

• Monitors pool areas for safety
• Maintains clean and sanitary pool environments
• Reports all incidents
• Prepared and capable to respond in emergency situations
• Perform opening and closing duties in the pool area.
• Greet members and guests as they arrive.
• Keep the pool area clean and orderly.
• Monitors pool chemicals.
• Monitors bathers for safety.
• Ensure that maximum bather capacity is not exceeded and immersion time is observed in accordance with health and safety requirements.
• Enforce safety rules and regulations with tact and diplomacy.
• Communicate all problems, functional maintenance issues, and safety concerns to spa management. 
• Communicate all situations/concerns with members/guests to spa management.
• Monitors pool deck amenities (pool toys, deck furniture).
• Required to be in proper and complete uniform as designated and be at scheduled station at the scheduled time.
• No cell phones allowed during working shift.

Note: Other duties as assigned by supervisor or management

Relationships:

Internal:   All Club departments: For effective communication.

External: Members/Guests: To provide excellent service

                  Vendors: To purchase and receive goods.

Qualifications:

Education/Experience: 

Exercise Science Degree or degree in physical activity and education preferred  

Certification and/or License Requirement:  

            CPR and AED certified

            Basic First Aid

            Lifeguard certification

Skills: 

Basic Skills

Active Learning: Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making.

Active Listening: Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times.

Critical Thinking: Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.

Learning Strategies: Selecting and using training/instructional methods and procedures appropriate for the situation when learning or teaching new things.

Monitoring: Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action.

Reading Comprehension: Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work related documents. 

Speaking: Talking to others to convey information effectively.

Writing Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience.

Social Skills

Coordination: Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions.

Instructing: Teaching others how to do something.

Negotiation: Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences.

Persuasion: Persuading others to change their minds or behavior.

Service Orientation:  Actively looking for ways to help people.

Social Perceptiveness:  Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do.

General Skills

Ability to speak, read, writes and understands English.  

Ability to comprehend and carry out instructions; attention to details.

Ability to interact with others in a professional, positive, and friendly manner at all times.

Customer service experience.  

Excellent customer service skills and strong work ethic.

Efficient, well organized, and able to handle a variety of duties simultaneously.

Energetic, enthusiastic and motivational.

Strong team player.

Working Conditions: 

• Able to work in a fast paced environment and be multi tasking
• Mostly indoors and does require outdoor activities 
• Required Nights, Weekends and Holidays 
• Attention to detail
• Previous experience preferred in a spa/pool.
• Excellent customer service skills and strong work ethic.
• Efficient, well organized, and able to handle a variety of duties simultaneously.
• Energetic, enthusiastic and motivational.
• Professional manner, discretion, and appearance.
• Excellent verbal and written skills.
• Strong team player
• Outdoor and direct sun

Physical/Cognitive Activities:

Physical: 

• Requires ability to bend, stoop, lift, balance and carry items up to 50lbs. 
• Ability to stand for prolonged periods of time in the sun.
• Ability to move about freely on a pool deck.

Cognitive: 

Ability to perform multiple tasks in a timely manner, while maintaining a professional, personable and courteous demeanor.

This description of physical and mental activities is not intended to describe essential job functions.  Rather, its purpose is to give the job applicant a feel for the physical and mental activities of the job to the end that an applicant with a disability can determine whether he or she will be able to do this job either with or without accommodations.

Organizational Structure:

• Reports to:  Director of Fitness, Tennis and Spa
• Subordinates:  
• Job title also known as:   Lifeguard, pool attendant  

This essential job function is a general representation of the duties and responsibilities commonly found in The Club at Las Campanas Inc. for this type of position; it may be modified at an individual club based upon business necessity.