Lifeguards

Position Details

• Position Type:
  Student Support Services
• Date Posted: 10/1/2024
• Location:
  
  Jennings Senior High School
• Closing Date: 11/08/2024

Supervises and maintains a safe and clean swimming environment. Performs emergency rescues, care, and first aid as needed. Enforces facility policy to ensure a safe pool deck.

• A high school diploma or in the process of obtaining a high school diploma.
• A current, valid American Red Cross Lifeguarding Certification.
• Must be age 16 or older.
• Must be able to lift 50 pounds.

• Guards the swimming pool by diligently observing patron behavior, enforcing facility rules, and intervening in dangerous situations to prevent drowning and injury.
• Provides routine first-aid.
• Provides lifesaving care, performs CPR, and operates an AED as needed.
• Addresses patron inquiries and concerns in a professional manner.
• Exercises good interpersonal skills by assisting others to accomplish work of the organization, even if outside the scope of regular duties.
• Maintains a clean aquatic environment.
• Cleans and maintains all equipment.
• Assists in conducting special events and community activities as needed.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Apply common sense to carry out detailed but uninvolved written and oral instructions.
• Deal with problems involving a few concrete variables in varying situations, including responding to medical emergencies.
• Regularly required to sit, stand, walk, reach with hands and arms, swim, and submerge underwater.
• Must be able to see, speak, and hear.
• Regularly required to lift up to 50 pounds.