Job Description

About the Y Northern Territory (Y NT)

Everyone at the Y NT is dedicated to supporting children, young people and communities to thrive. Whether it’s at Early Learning Centres, Outside Hours School Care, at their Recreation centres, Aquatic facilities, in their Youth Programs, Remote Pools program, or at the Hostel, the Y is committed to supporting Territorians to be connected, educated, resilient and healthy.

The Opportunity

The Y NT has recently been awarded the newly upgraded Katherine Aquatic Centre.

Pool Lifeguards at the Y NT are responsible, approachable and confident swimmers who supervise our pools and surrounding areas, taking on a great responsibility to uphold the highest level of care and safety. Pool Lifeguards act as positive role models in an effort to build strong people, strong families and strong communities within the facilities that we manage.

Benefits

• Casual with the possibility of full time or part time roles
• Comprehensive training for your new position
• Flexible working hours spread over weekends, mornings and evenings
• Access to the recreation facilities we manage
• Discounted rates at Y Childcare Centres

Key Responsibilities

• Maintain a safe recreational environment by patrolling the assigned pools or pool areas, directing the public to ensure correct and safe usage in the Aquatic Centre, undertaking constant visible monitoring, making informed assessments of situations, providing lifeguard procedures and first aid, resuscitation and emergency life support as required
• Ensure facility rules are being obeyed, whilst educating facility users about safe aquatic practices
• Assist in maintaining the plant room and associated equipment in good working order
• Conduct and record water treatment tests and maintain water quality within the Health Department Guidelines
• Report on pool incidents and take appropriate timely action to address and resolve matters
• Provide information and advice on programs, pools and safe pool practices to the public as required
• Maintain and clean the pools and surrounding areas to established standards
• Complete all necessary opening, daily and closing checklists to a high standard
• Maintain a working knowledge and understanding of the Centre’s Emergency Action Plan
• Implement Work Health Safety (WHS) procedures in relation to all relevant areas of responsibility and maintain a clean and safe workplace
• Maintain a safe, healthy and clean environment
• Identify hazards and take action to remove these hazards
• Identify risks and report them in a timely manner
• Commitment to customer service excellence by handling customer queries, feedback and complaints in a professional and timely manner

About you

You are a customer service focused, positive and motivated individual who strives in a fast-paced environment. You have strong communication and observation skills and are able to keep calm and act quickly in an emergency.

You will also have, or have the ability to obtain:

• Working with Children Clearance
• Satisfactory Criminal History Check
• First Aid Certificate
• Pool Lifeguard Certificate

Interested?

Great, apply now!

The Y NT is committed to supporting Veteran Employment, Veterans and candidates with Australian Defence Force (ADF) experience are encouraged to apply.

Safeguarding Children and Young People Statement

At the Y NT, we are committed to empowering all Children and Young People to feel safe and be safe, at the Y, in their families and in their communities. As such, we ensure that all of our candidates are appropriately screened (including police checks) to make sure that the right people are in the right roles.

The Y NT is proudly childsafe and has stringent compliance requirements for all personnel.

To learn more about our screening processes, click here to view our Safeguarding Children and Young People Policy: https://ymca.org.au/about-us/safeguarding-children-young-people/safeguardingresources