Lifeguard - Test at Katie Oltmans' Production Environment – Naples, Florida

The purpose of this classification is to ensure 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.

This particular position is for the youth aquatics program at our South Regional pool location.

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. Operates the following equipment: rescue equipment, hydraulic chair lift, timing system, pool vacuum, pool pumps, golf cart, pressure washer, computer and printer, telephone, water testing equipment, chemical feeders and other equipment necessary to complete essential functions.

ADDITIONAL FUNCTIONSAssists in development and implementation of aquatic activities and events.Assists with park special events.Creates flyers and other educational materials.Assists in other areas of the park as needed.Performs other related duties as required.In the event of a declared state of emergency, employees in this classification may be called to work during days or hours other than those for which they are regularly scheduled.PERFORMANCE APTITUDES

Data Utilization: Requires the ability to compile, assemble, copy, record and/or transcribe data according to a prescribed schema or plan. Includes judging whether readily observable functional, structural or compositional characteristics are similar to or divergent from prescribed standards, procedures or routines.

Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide guidance, assistance, and/or interpretation to others regarding the application of procedures and standards to specific situations.

Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.

Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information.

Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. May include counting, recording of counts, and basic measuring.

Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of rational systems; to interpret instructions furnished in written, oral, diagrammatic, or schedule form; and to exercise independent judgment to adopt or modify methods and standards to meet variations in assigned objectives.

Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving the evaluation of information against sensory, judgmental, or subjective criteria, as opposed to that which is clearly measurable or verifiable.

Leadership: Customer Service: Financial Accountability: ADA COMPLIANCE

Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert moderate, though not constant physical effort, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (12-20 pounds).

Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, depth, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.

Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, smoke, temperature and noise extremes, unsafe structures, heights, confined spaces, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, violence, or rude/irate customers.

TEST TEST TEST

Must be 16 years of age and possess and maintain valid certifications in CPR for the Professional Rescuer, Automatic External Defibrillator (AED), First Aid and Lifeguard. Fingerprinting required.