Lifeguard - Shropshire Community Leisure Trust, Bishops Castle

Location: Bishops Castle

Working Hours: Various hours available, covering earlies, lates and weekends

Salary: Up to £12.71 per hour

Excellent benefits

At Serco, we're pleased to be recruiting on behalf of Shropshire Community Leisure Trust. Shropshire Community 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.

Delivering these services relies on an enthusiastic, customer-focused team, and they're now looking for Lifeguards to join their team and help make a positive difference every day. 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. Without you there can't be any pool activity. But 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. You will help in facilitating a safe, fun, and professional working environment with excellent development opportunities and free membership plus other various discounts.

What you'll need to do the role:

• Excellent customer service skills as you'll be interacting heavily with our customers.
• Experience in a leisure or another customer-facing environment.
• Providing customer care to people of all ages.
• Supervising activities and maintaining high standards of cleanliness in the pool area.
• Ensuring the safe handling and set up of pool equipment.
• Being safety conscious, vigilant, and able to deal with pressurised situations.
• Strong swimming skills and holding a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (Royal Life Saving Society) or equivalent.

If you feel you meet the above criteria, please apply today!

Why Join us:

• A place you can make an impact: Swimming pools are the beating hearts of our leisure centres and without lifeguards we cannot 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 you 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.

As well as the backing of the team you'll also find all the resources you need for career progression through Serco Learning.

What we offer:

• Free membership at the Centre plus heavily discounted use of classes and facilities.
• Free safeguarding training and DBS check.
• Excellent Development and Training Opportunities.
• 6% employer matched pension contribution.
• Up to 25 days annual leave plus public holidays (Pro Rata).
• Life assurance up to 2x base salary.

For all Leisure benefits please see Trust and Serco Leisure Employee Benefits.

The Trust is committed to equal opportunities and requests any potential applicant to contact the Recruitment Team on 0345 010 4000 as soon as possible if an applicant has any additional queries, requirements or will need additional time in submitting an application. Applicants should be aware that in line with the company's policy, employees will have a DBS check where appropriate.