Lifeguard

Post

Title:

Lifeguard
Site

Location:

BH Live Active, Bitterne
Geographical

Location:

Southampton
Salary: up to £25,500 per annum
Hours: 40 hours per week
Contract Type:
Permanent
The role:

BH Live is recruiting for a full time NPLQ qualified Lifeguard to join our team at BH Live Active, Bitterne in Southampton.

Bitterne Leisure Centre is a multi‑complex facility, offering activities for visitors of all ages and abilities to help improve health and wellbeing.

Swimming lessons and sessions take place regularly across a 25m main pool (complete with a water slide) and a 10m learner pool.

• Work poolside and be the main point of contact for our customers.
• Ensure our customers are kept safe and comply with the centre rules.
• Erect, dismantle and move equipment.
• Clean the centre and equipment.
• Be vigilant and supervise people who are using the pool and centre facilities.

• Your NPLQ qualification
• Satisfactory DBS Clearance
• Be a confident swimmer
• To keep calm under pressure and have good initiative
• The ability to concentrate whilst working poolside
• Great customer service skills
• To be available to work hours aligned to the centre's opening hours, including weekends, evenings and bank holidays.
• Be willing to work at other local sites.

• Onsite parking
• Training and development opportunities
• BH Live Active - Gym membership
• Health cash plan
• Employee Assistance programme
• Company pension matched up to 6% contributions
• Colleague discount on food and drink
• Colleague recognition
• Birthday / Celebratory day off
• Loyalty Rewards

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

• More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing
• Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience
• Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site:

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.