Female Lifeguard

GLL is looking for a Female Lifeguard to work at Britannia Leisure Centre. If you have the skills and ambition to join us as a Lifeguard, there has never been a more exciting time to join us. This is more than a Lifeguard job, it's a career. As a female lifeguard, part of your responsibilities will include pool supervision during female-only swim sessions.

A Lifeguard's job can't be underestimated, and neither can the responsibility that comes with this vital lifeguarding role. If you're calm under pressure, highly responsible, and natural with people from all walks of life, this is your chance to develop as a Lifeguard.

As a Lifeguard, your passion for swimming and love of great customer service will shine through when supervising our customers in the pool, as well as supporting the team in keeping our centres clean and tidy.

What you’ll do :

You will experience regular pool rotations

Supervising and cleaning the pool area

Setting up equipment

Deliver first-class customer service

Deal with customer queries

When not poolside you will be a key support to your team on a daily basis from preparing Studios, Gyms or Sports Halls for various activities to the general cleaning and upkeep of the centre.

What you need : A can-do attitude

A real focus on customer service.

Passion and personality

Knowledge of health and safety

Be a great team player

Ideally, you'll have your National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ) with up to date NPLQ training records and if not the NPLQ training can be provided subject to passing a swim test.

As a charitable social enterprise and cooperative owned by our staff, GLL is a unique organisation for you to have a career with!

The basics :

This is a Flexible position. Hours of work will be negotiated with you in line with the needs of the service, flexible working may be possible, working from home is not possible in this role. We are an accredited Living Wage employer with industry leading rates of pay We can offer a career, not just a

job with extensive Learning & development support available. A uniform will be supplied and must be worn GLL is Values Driven, not Profit Driven. We work hard to benefit the communities we operate in. As a staff owned organisation you will be given the opportunity to join the Society and have a stake in your business

Additionally GLL offers employees a range of employment benefits :

Access to a pension scheme.

Health Assurance and access to Counselling services

Access to the tax efficient Ride to Work bicycle purchase scheme.

Free annual eye tests

Discounted nationwide (over 200 centres) inclusive leisure centre membership for you and your partner. This includes GLL Extras!

GLL Society benefits (if you choose to join the Society after your probation period) include :

The right to stand for the Society board and to vote for board members to represent you

Access to team building and fun events such as Treks, Concerts outings etc

Access to a range of benefits exclusive to our people – ask your line manager for details or check out the Intranet