Lifeguard I

Aquatics Position

Provide for the safety of spectators, participants, and staff involved in aquatic activities and present aquatic instructional programs. Provide staff support for the office and perform clean-up of pool and locker room areas.

Typical duties include enforcing safety rules, performing lifesaving and first aid procedures, teaching learn to swim programs, providing routine clean-up and maintenance, providing office support, operating a cash register, performing chlorine and pH water tests, completing daily attendance and revenue reports, presenting aquatic instructional programs, preparing lesson plans, evaluating and recommending swim levels, registering students, and performing aquatic instruction at all levels of swimming programs and other special conditioning activities.

Position requirements include being eighteen years of age at time of employment, possessing and maintaining certification in Standard First Aid, Lifeguarding, and CPR-PR as recognized by the American Red Cross (or equivalent), obtaining Water Safety Instructor certification within 180 days of hire and maintaining afterwards, demonstrating all lifesaving and first aid skills required by the position, and passing the American Red Cross Swim Proficiency Test.

Knowledge, skills, and abilities include six months of experience in aquatic instruction, class preparation, and organization preferred, good communication skills, basic computer skills, ability to operate a point-of-sale computer system, and knowledge of Alaska Dept of Environmental Conservation health codes and regulations for pool operations.

Additional information includes ordinary business contact with employees in own division and continuous, routine public contact, does not supervise, performs mostly routine duties with a few minor problems, little immediate supervision is required, work environment is a recreation facility with good, clean conditions, and this position falls under the Borough's Blood Borne Pathogen (BBP) Exposure Control Program.