Job Description

Posting number: 10218

Department: Public Services

Job classification: Lifeguard

Posting type: Open & Promotional

Categories: Parks and Recreation, Safety

Collier County strives to be an employer of choice, and many of our employees build long-term careers with us. The salary listed in the job description reflects the full pay range for this position, from entry level through advanced career stages.

NEW EMPLOYEES ARE HIRED AT, OR NEAR THE ENTRY POINT SHOWN, DEPENDING ON QUALIFICATIONS AND RELEVANT EXPERIENCE.

Ensures the safety of aquatic facility users by preventing accidents, providing water safety education, and executing professional lifesaving services to swimmers in need and maintain swimming pool and facility.

Examples of duties

• Monitors swimmers to determine if emergency life-saving services are needed; rescues distressed swimmers; and provides CPR/AED as needed.
• Prevents injuries by monitoring the facility and facility use; provides water safety education; and monitors water quality.
• Maintains high level of skill and emergency rescue readiness through drills, in-service trainings, and physical conditioning.
• Maintains discipline at facility; ensures that safety rules and regulations are followed; reports problems to supervisor; and assists with removal of patrons causing disturbances or an unsafe environment.
• Provides basic first aid; monitors first aid supplies; restocks first aid cabinets; and completes injury/accident reports.
• Provides customer service; answers questions and provides information to visitors; assists the public when clearing pools.
• Provides swim instruction through the Swim Central initiative; responsible for adjusting curriculum to meet individual student learning needs and end of program assessment; instructs aquatic exercise classes and assists with the development and implementation of program curriculum.
• Sets up facility for daily use, party rentals, and special events.
• Inspects operational and rescue equipment to ensure that it is in appropriate condition; inspects aquatic facility for possible safety problems and reports any findings to supervisor.
• Performs facility maintenance and minor repair duties such as waxing slides, vacuuming pool, cleaning pool tiles, cleaning restrooms, painting, and other cleaning and repair duties as assigned; reports facility maintenance concerns to supervisor.
• Monitors water quality through water testing, records result and notifies the on-deck supervisor if results are outside of Health Department standards.

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONS
• Assists in development and implementation of aquatic activities and events.
• Assists with park special events.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Qualifications

• Must be sixteen (16) years of age.
• Fingerprinting Required.

LICENSES/CERTIFICATES

• Must possess and maintain a current Lifeguard certification.
• Must possess and maintain current CPR, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED) and First Aid certification.

Supplemental information

• Salary offers above the minimum of the pay grade may be considered based on qualifications.
• Essential Employees may be required to work during an undeclared emergency and/or declared emergency. On an incident-by-incident basis, the County’s Administrative Office will make the determination as to who will be required to work.
• This job posting is not intended to be all-inclusive list of responsibilities, skills or working conditions associated with the position.