LIFEGUARD PT Seasonal

Lifeguard Position

Meridell Achievement Center is a 134-bed, seclusion free, psychiatric residential treatment facility located northwest of Austin. Our 60-acre campus is complete with mature oaks, rolling hills, and plenty of walking paths and outdoor spaces. We provide 24-hour psychiatric care to girls and boys ages 10 to 17 years old with customized therapeutic approaches and intensive behavioral programs to teach young patients to moderate their behavior, manage emotions and improve social functioning.

Lifeguards are responsible to keep an eye out for patients indulging in recreational activities in the pool area. The lifeguard maintains constant surveillance of patients in the facility while engaging in water related activities; acts immediately and appropriately to secure the safety of patients in the event of emergency. Provides emergency care treatment and lifesaving activities, to include but not limited to resuscitation and first aid as required, until the arrival of emergency medical services. This position is seasonal from June to early August. Weekday hours 1pm to 5pm Monday through Friday. Weekend hours 9am to 5pm Saturday and Sunday. Pay is $25/hour.

Job duties include monitoring the safety of patients and employees in the pool area, reminding patients and staff of essential safety guidelines in the pool area, observing for signs of distressed swimmers, unsafe conditions, and inclement weather, initiating rescues, administering first aid, CPR or AED assistance when required, performing safety checks of area before and after shift, providing swim assessment to all patients, ensuring that all swimming equipment and activity supplies are placed in storage and locked prior to exiting the pool area, ensuring that all patients apply sunscreen prior to entering the pool and are provided ear drops when exiting the pool area, consistently promoting and adhering to service excellence standards and workplace safety standards, consistently following facility protocol for maintaining excellent attendance, maintaining required certifications for employment, and other general activity duties as assigned.