About the role:

As a Senior Lifeguard at Selwyn Aquatic Centre, you will supervise the Lifeguards on shift, leading by example to ensure we are maintaining a safe and welcoming environment for all of our facility users by:

• Delivering exceptional customer service
• Assisting with rostering
• Water quality testing
• Reporting
• Promoting and delivering ongoing training and development for the team
• Troubleshooting
• Providing professional day to day guidance and support to the team

This role is 76 hours per fortnight working the following roster:

Week One

Tuesday - Friday 5.30am - 1.30pm and Saturday 7.30-4pm.

Week Two

Tuesday - Friday 1.30pm - 9.30pm and Saturday 12-8.30pm

About you:

Our ideal candidate will have some day to day supervisory or leadership experience (this can be across any industry) alongside a genuine interest in aquatics or sport and recreation. We'll provide fully paid Lifeguard training where you will gain a nationally recognised qualification. You will come to us with natural leadership abilities, high levels of motivation and be keen to learn.

You will also have:

• Experienced in delivering exceptional customer service to our facility users
• The ability to work effectively in a team environment is essential
• Strong communication skills
• Pro-actively supervise the pool environment to prevent incidents, accidents, emergencies, and hazards.
• Confident swimming ability, you will be required to complete a swim test as follows:
  • 200m continuously in less than 6 mins
  • 50m breaststroke
  • 25m side stroke
  • 5 mins treading water
  • Picking up an object from deepest part of pool (2m)

What we can offer:

• Great work-life balance with flexibility
• Career coaching and development
• Life insurance
• Wellbeing and volunteer leave
• 3 days paid leave between Christmas and New Year
• 2 weeks paid Partners Leave
• Sick leave from day 1
• Continued KiwiSaver contributions during savings suspension
• Discounts with local and national businesses

About us:

Selwyn is one of the fastest-growing districts in New Zealand. We have a fantastic quality of life, great communities, and a thriving economy. Our Council works actively with residents to provide the services and facilities that help our communities to thrive and grow.

Selwyn Aquatic Centre is based in Rolleston (only 25km from Christchurch), which offers an enviable family lifestyle, outstanding local facilities and an easy drive to the ski fields, rivers and hills that make up Canterbury's stunning landscape.

Our values are important to us and represent the way we work: · Be a good human. Be brave . Think differently. Better together. Make it Happen for Selwyn.

We honour Te Tiriti o Waitangi and we are committed to working with our Treaty partner to deliver on our obligations under Te Tiriti o Waitangi.

We value the safety of our staff and facility users - this role requires a satisfactory safety check including police vetting and you to pass pre employment drug and alcohol testing and on an ongoing random basis.

If you'd like to play a part in making Selwyn the best place to live, work and play, join us today!