At a Glance
- Tasks: Ensure pool safety, provide customer care, and maintain cleanliness.
- Company: Join Maidstone Leisure Trust, promoting healthy lifestyles in a friendly community.
- Benefits: Up to £27,000 salary, free leisure access, discounts, and extensive training opportunities.
- Other info: Supportive team environment with career progression and inclusive culture.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by ensuring safety and enjoyment for all pool visitors.
- Qualifications: Must be 18+, hold a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification, and have strong swimming skills.
The predicted salary is between 27000 - 27000 £ per year.
Location: Lockmeadow Leisure Complex, ME16 8LW
Working Hours: 40 hours per week, between Monday to Sunday including earlies and lates
Salary: Up to 27,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Maidstone Leisure Trust encourages active, healthy lifestyles across the local community. Providing affordable access to a wide range of sports and leisure facilities in a safe, clean, friendly and welcoming space, their goal is to support healthier and happier lives for everyone.
As a Lifeguard you'll be an important part of life here at the centre as you ensure that everyone can use the pool in safety and that they have access to everything they need to enjoy their visit. You will be providing customer care to people of all ages, supervising activities, maintaining high standards of cleanliness in the pool area, and ensuring the safe handling and set up of pool equipment. When needed, you'll help to save lives.
You won't be working alone. Our leisure centre has a close-knit and supportive team, all working towards providing an inclusive leisure hub for the entire community. You will also receive fantastic training and development opportunities and benefits including free leisure access and other various discounts.
About you
You'll need to have excellent customer service skills as you'll be interacting heavily with our customers. Whether you've earned that experience in a leisure or another customer-facing environment, you'll be a people person who is happy dealing with people of all ages and backgrounds. As a lifeguard you'll naturally need to be safety conscious, vigilant, and able to deal with pressurised situations. Lastly, you'll need to have strong swimming skills and it's essential that you hold a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (Royal Life Saving Society). Due to this being a full-time role, you will need to be at least 18+ to be considered.
If you feel you meet the above criteria, please apply today!
Why Join us
- A place you can make an impact: Our Swimming pools are the beating hearts of our leisure centres and without lifeguards we can't operate.
- A place you can count on: Our lifeguards are integral to the running of our centres, so as well progressing into senior lifeguard positions they can move into other centre management roles in one of our 55 facilities.
- A place for you: Our centres are close-knit and friendly, and we rely on each other for support.
What we offer
- Holidays: 21 days pro rata plus bank holidays
- Pension: Up to 6% contributory pension scheme
- Training and development: Over 1,100 internal courses available, funding for qualifications and apprenticeships, mentoring opportunities, and a focus on internal progression
- Health and wellbeing: Employee Assistance Programme, Bupa Anytime HealthLine, wellbeing app, free membership for Serco-managed leisure centres, and 24/7 access to a virtual GP service
- Discounts: Discounts across around 1,000 retailers, from food and clothing to days out, entertainment and travel
- Charity: Paid volunteering day, tax-free charitable giving through Payroll Giving Scheme
- Employee networks: Our networks support inclusion and connection by providing spaces for collaboration, learning, and belonging.
Let's impact a better future, together. Apply today.
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