Apprentice Lifeguard/Leisure Assistant - Vale Farm Leisure Centre - Wembley
Description
Are you looking to kick start your career within the sport and leisure industry? Vale Farm Sports Centre are looking for enthusiastic and energetic candidates to work towards their Activity Leadership NVQ Level 2 and be part of a professional, friendly team working as a lifeguard, gym instructor and swim teacher!
Working Week : 30 hours shift work inc. evenings and weekends
Weekly Wage : £99.00
Your duties will include:
- Provide exceptional customer service to all members
- Support the centre swim teaching team to deliver exceptional swimming lessons
- Adopting a customer service focussed and commercial approach to swimming lesson sales and retention, similar to that traditionally seen in the fitness environment
- Support and deliver community engagement linked to increasing swimming participation
- To support the coaching team when required to maintain continuity of teaching and excellent customer service
- To teach swimming when needed to fit the needs of the programme
- To cover lifeguard positions when needed to fit the needs of the swimming lesson programme and centre pool programme
- You will support the swimming lesson programme under the guidance of the General Manager or equivalent and the Regional Aquatics Manager
You will work towards your Activity Leadership NVQ Level 2 through work based learning delivered by Lifetime Training as well as your National Pool Lifeguarding Qualification and Swim Teaching Level 1.
To be considered for this role, you must be a strong and confident swimmer.
If you are invited to interview for this role you will be required to complete a swim test as part of the interview process, in order to be considered for the role you must be able to demonstrate you are able to do the following.
• Jump/dive into deep water
• Swim 50 metres in no more than 60 seconds
• Swim 100 metres continuously on front and back in deep water and then tread water for 30 seconds
• Surface dive to floor of pool (deepest part)
• Climb out unaided without ladders/steps and where pool design permits