What are the responsibilities and job description for the Lifeguard / Parks and Recreation-Leonard Park Aquatic Center position at City of Gainesville, TX?
Description
To monitor activities in swimming areas to prevent accidents and provide assistance to swimmers by performing the following duties.
Examples of Duties
EXAMPLES OF DUTIES
Duties and responsibilities may include, but are not limited to, the following:
Essential Functions:
- Participate in the maintenance of swimming pool facilities; clean and vacuum the pool.
- Caution swimmers regarding unsafe areas and/or acts.
- Rescues swimmers in danger of drowning and administer first aid when necessary.
- Inspects facilities for cleanliness and comply with relevant health and safety regulations.
- Ensure that pumps and related mechanical devices are functioning properly.
- Maintain a safe environment in and around swimming pool facilities; report incidents, accidents and injuries to the assistant manager or manager.
- Continuing education as pertains to rules and regulations.
- Keep active in life guarding procedures according to lifeguard book.
Additional Duties:
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Typical Qualifications
QUALIFICATIONS
Knowledge of:
- Proper pool safety rules and regulations.
- Pertinent Federal, State, and local laws, codes and regulations.
Ability to:
- Implement pool activities and events.
- Respond to requests and inquiries from the general public.
- Maintain a safe and clean environment in and around swimming pool.
- Communicate clearly and concisely, both orally and in writing.
- Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with those contacted in the course of work.
- Interpret and apply Federal, State and local policies, procedures, laws and regulations.
- Swim well enough to ensure a rescue can be properly performed.
- Perform rescue techniques that was received in training in lifeguard course.
Experience and Training Guidelines:
Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:
Experience:
No experience necessary.
Education/Training:
- Must have current CPR for the Professional Rescuer.
Physical Demands and Work Environment
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is:
- Regularly required to stand; walk; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear.
- Regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls.
- Regularly required to climb or balance.
- Regularly lift and/or move up to 50 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
- Daily requirement to participate in condition swim program.
- Weekly requirement to participate in-service training program (physical and written).
WORK ENVIRONMENT
While performing the duties of this job, the employee:
- Regularly works near moving mechanical parts.
- Regularly works in outside weather conditions.
- Regularly exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, and extreme heat (non-weather).
- Occasionally works in high, precarious places and is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, risk of electrical shock, and vibration.
- The noise level in the work environment is usually loud.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of this job.
This job description is not an employment agreement, contact agreement, or contract. Management has exclusive right to alter this job description at any time without notice.