Open Water Swimming Life Guard
GLL is looking for Open Water Swimming Life Guards based at Stanborough Park Water Sports Centre in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire. Stanborough Park provides Open water swimming every week throughout the year. Stanborough has been providing sailing since 1969 and is a Paddle UK and RYA Training Centre offering courses and practise sessions to adults and children.
As an OWS Life guard, you’ll be required to deliver high quality cover for our open water swimmers (from paddle craft), ensuring the health and safety of staff and customers, guaranteeing the highest standards of service. Working with water sports instructors and a swim safety team on a regular basis means you’ll need to have a positive and friendly attitude.
You’ll have a real passion for being outside on the water and working within a team. You must hold a valid first aid certificate, safe guarding certificate and Paddle UK SSRC - Swimmer Safety and Rescue Course. You can gain SSRC, and Safe Guarding with us at Stanborough. There is also the scope for unqualified candidates to gain more qualifications such as RYA Powerboat Level 2 with the Centre, as well as Paddle UK Instructor qualifications. Flexibility, punctuality and reliability are just as important as integrity, a can-do attitude and a real focus on customer service. Passion and personality will stand you in good stead too.
The welfare and safety of the children in our care is of the utmost importance to us at GLL. We follow safer recruitment procedures to ensure that our staff are checked and appropriate to work with children and young people. Therefore we’ll require you to complete an enhance DBS check before you will be allowed to start work.
All pay rates are subject to skills, experience, qualifications and location.
To be shortlisted for the role, internal applicants will need to demonstrate their commitment to GLL by becoming a Society member where eligible.
About Us
GLL is the UK’s largest leisure and cultural services provider and one of the first and largest leisure social enterprises. Our aim is to get more people, more active, more of the time whilst making leisure and community facilities accessible and affordable. We partner with local authorities to run leisure centres, swimming pools, libraries, children’s centres, spas, events spaces and world-class sporting venues such as the Copper Box Arena and London Aquatics Centre on the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park - all under our Better brand. As a not-for-profit organisation, we’re different. Passionate about seeing our communities thrive, we invest back into our facilities, projects and people and are an Investors in People Silver Award employer.
GLL is an equal opportunities employer.