Lifeguard

Bronson Healthcare

15h • Onsite

About The Position

The lifeguard monitors the aquatic environment and enforces facility rules. Must be attentive, demonstrate proactive risk management, and provide excellent customer service. Responds to emergencies within scope of the American Red Cross Lifeguarding training program and BAC Emergency Action Plan. Facilitates group, team or private swimming lesson activities. Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

Requirements

• Must be at least 18 years of age or older.
• Nationally recognized lifeguarding certificate required within 90 days of hire (American Red Cross, YMCA or Ellis required, including First Aid, CPR, and AED certifications).
• Must be able to perform all rescues and pre-requisite skills required per the American Red Cross Pool Lifeguarding training program.
• Must be able to swim 300 yards continuously, tread water for 2 minutes without use of arms and swim 20 yards, retrieve a 10 pound object from a depth of 7-10 feet and return to starting position.
• Must demonstrate excellent customer service and interpersonal skills in communicating facility rules to members and patrons.
• Work which produces very high levels of mental/visual fatigue, e.g. CRT work between 70 and 90 percent of the time, and work involving extremely close tolerances and considerable hand/eye coordination for sustained periods of time.
• Involves regularly lifting bulky or moderately heavy weights (i.e., up to 50 pounds), and occasionally assisting with heavier tasks or expending the equivalent effort in pushing, pulling, or otherwise handling material, equipment, and other objects.

Nice To Haves

• Employees providing direct patient care must demonstrate competencies specific to the population served.

Responsibilities

• Monitors the aquatic environment and maintains patron safety as per Bronson Athletic Club policy and State Health Code.
• Performs opening/closing tasks and other duties as required by Bronson Athletic Club including, but not limited to, measuring and recording free chlorine content levels in pools, hot tubs, and cold plunges as well as assisting in the annual shut down.
• Facilitates group, team or private swimming lesson activities.
• Responds to emergencies within scope of the American Red Cross Lifeguarding training program and BAC Emergency Action Plan.

Benefits

• Bronson Healthcare is a community-owned, not-for-profit health system that has been serving southwest Michigan since 1900.
• Today, with a workforce of 9,000 people and 1,500 medical staff members, it is the area’s largest employer and leading healthcare system.
• Bronson provides care in virtually every specialty and offers a full range of services from primary care to critical care at more than 100 locations.
• Bronson’s exceptionally high quality standards enable us to do what’s right for our patients and their families.
• We are empowered as individuals and as teams, to apply our skills and experience so that every patient receives safe, timely and effective treatment.
• Our state-of-the-art, technology and evidence-based processes give us the tools we need to deliver the right care, at the right time.
• By putting each patient and their family at the center of our work, we demonstrate the dignity and respect we have for each individual we serve.
• This unwavering commitment to serving others combined with our unique healing environment helps make the patient experience here an exceptional one.
• The excellence and Positivity of our employees and medical staff has contributed to Bronson Healthcare being ranked by Forbes as one of America’s Best-In-State Employers (2022-23), by Newsweek as one of America’s Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023) and by the National Association for Business Resources as one of the 2023 Top 101 Best and Brightest Companies to Work For.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: High school or GED