Lifeguard - Part Time
- Employer
- City Colleges of Chicago
- Location
- Olive-Harvey College
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- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Institution Type
- Community College
Job Details
LIFEGUARD - PART TIME
OLIVE-HARVEY COLLEGE
Olive-Harvey College is looking for a Part Time Lifeguard to provide a clean, safe, and fun swimming environment for our students and community members. In this position you will have the opportunity to support the aquatics department by providing water surveillance and swimming rules enforcement. You will also ensure the safety of swimming patrons participating in recreational swimming activities, learn-to-swim classes, competitive swim training, swim meets, or other aquatic facility activities.Duties and Responsibilities:
- Under the general supervision of the City Colleges of Chicago Athletics Department, provides water surveillance and swimming rule enforcement ensuring the safety of patrons participating in recreational swimming activities, learn-to-swim classes, or competitive swim training, swim meets, or other aquatic facility activities.
- Watches for unusual activities on the part of swimmers and is able to recognize struggling swimmers, drowning swimmers, distressed swimmers, and swimmers with sudden medical conditions such as stroke, heart attack, asthma, diabetes, or seizures along with the ability to recognize potential emergency conditions or situations.
- Provides rapid response lifesaving swim rescue and basic first-aid treatment and CPR administration, if required.
- Fills out incident report forms after accidents or injuries proactively collecting witness names and numbers.
- Maintains safe and clean aquatic facilities along with proper maintenance of life saving equipment and related materials and supplies.
- Participates in in-service training to maintain life guarding skills.
- Wears appropriate uniform, attire, and life-saving gear for the position.
- Exhibits public respect and enthusiasm as duties and responsibilities are carried out in all work environments.
Qualifications
- High School Diploma required.
- Lifeguard, CPR/AED, and First Aid certification required.
- Lifeguard must be in good physical and mental condition to provide life saving services.
- Prior experience as junior lifeguard, certified lifeguard, or swimming instructor.
- Prior experience with and proficient use of lifesaving equipment; basic first aid kit, CPR mask, rescue buoy or rescue tube.
- Delivery of effective verbal and written communications and takes responsibility for understanding others, multilingual skills a plus.
- Flexibility to work outside normal college business hours, weekends, or holidays.
- Able to exercise independent judgment and respond calmly to high-pressure emergency situations.
- Ability to work in a team environment with flexible work hours as needed for scheduled college events.
- Promotes a positive role model and favorable public image as City Colleges of Chicago representative.
Thank you for your interest in City Colleges of Chicago!
Job: Athletics/Sports/Recreation
Primary Location: Olive-Harvey College
Job Posting: Jun 12, 2019, 1:59:04 PM
Organization
The City Colleges of Chicago is a network of seven Colleges. Through our seven colleges, we deliver exceptional learning opportunities and educational services for diverse student populations in 
Chicago. We enhance knowledge, understanding, skills, collaboration, community service and life-long learning by providing a broad range of quality, affordable courses, programs, and services to prepare students for success in a technologically advanced and increasingly interdependent global society. We work to eliminate barriers to employment and to address and overcome inequality of access and graduation in higher education.
For information about City Colleges of Chicago's Reinvention initiative, click here.
Our Vision is to transform the City Colleges of Chicago into a world-class institution. We do that by ensuring student success. It is the centerpiece of our Reinvention effort. What we mean by student success is making sure our students are prepared to move into higher education and that they have the skills for jobs in the 21st Century. We believe there is no other institution better positioned to become an economic engine for the City of Chicago.
We have a proud history of providing life-changing opportunities and education to residents of Chicago’s most underserved communities. However, far too many students are not meeting their goals today. And that’s why we’ve launched this ambitious plan to reinvent the City Colleges.
Our work and our vision will not be complete until we make sure every one of our students leaves with the tools they need to achieve their goals. Success is going to look different for each student. In the end, we envision an institution which will do four things very well:
- Increase the number of students earning college credentials of economic value
- Increase the rate of transfer to Bachelor’s degree programs following CCC graduation
- Drastically improve outcomes for students needing remediation
- Increase number and share of ABE/GED/ESL students who advance to and succeed in college-level courses
Accomplishing these goals will benefit not only our students, but also our faculty and staff, four-year colleges, Chicago area employers, the Chicago Public Schools and communities...and help transform us into a world-class institution.
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