Post Title: Lifeguard

Site Location: BH Live Active, Bitterne

Geographical Location: Southampton

Salary: up to £25,500 per annum

Hours: 40 hours per week

Contract Type: Permanent

The role:

BH Live is recruiting for a full time NPLQ qualified Lifeguard to join our team at BH Live Active, Bitterne in Southampton.

Bitterne Leisure Centre is a multi-complex facility, offering activities for visitors of all ages and abilities to help improve health and wellbeing.

Swimming lessons and sessions take place regularly across a 25m main pool (complete with a water slide) and a 10m learner pool.

You will:

Work poolside and be the main point of contact for our customers.
Ensure our customers are kept safe and comply with the centre rules.
Erect, dismantle and move equipment.
Clean the centre and equipment.
Be vigilant and supervise people who are using the pool and centre facilities.

You will need:

Your NPLQ qualification
Satisfactory DBS Clearance
Be a confident swimmer
To keep calm under pressure and have good initiative
The ability to concentrate whilst working poolside
Great customer service skills
To be available to work hours aligned to the centres opening hours, including weekends, evenings and bank holidays.
Be willing to work at other local sites.

To view the job description of this role, please click here.

Due to the nature of our business hours of work will include weekends, bank holidays and evenings.

BH Live is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of children and vulnerable adults. Rigorous checks will be made of the successful applicant’s background credentials, including referencing and an enhanced DBS checks.

We offer:

Onsite parking
Training and development opportunities
BH Live Active - Gym membership
Health cash plan
Employee Assistance programme
Company pension matched up to 6% contributions
Colleague discount on food and drink
Colleague recognition
Birthday / Celebratory day off
Loyalty Rewards

About BH Live:

We are one of the UK’s leading leisure and event venue operators – a registered charity and social enterprise.

Our geographical reach spans across multiple venues, leisure centres and attractions across Portsmouth, Southampton, Croydon and the BCP region with millions of visits per year.

Our organisational and charitable purpose is to generate:

More participation – through the provision of leisure facilities to encourage active communities, improved health, and wellbeing
Higher audiences – through the provision of a diverse range of cultural and artistic events that appeal to a wide audience
Greater economic and social benefit – through hosting major conferences, exhibitions, and events for the benefit of the local, regional, and international economies and people

We are making a positive difference across the communities we serve.

Our organisation is changing lives – placing us at the heart of the UK’s growing social economy. We host hundreds of events a year; sell more than half a million cultural, and entertainment tickets; clock up millions of leisure centre visits, and welcome thousands of conference and exhibition delegates. As well as promoting community health and wellbeing, this generates millions of pounds in economic benefit for the local economy through business and cultural tourism.

As a social enterprise, we don’t pay dividends to shareholders. Every pound we make is used to run our business and generate a surplus to reinvest and enhance our centres and facilities for public benefit.

We’re BH Live, and we make things happen.

To apply:

All applications are to be made via the BH Live Careers site: careers.bhlive.org.uk

BH Live reserves the right to close the vacancy early should sufficient applications be received. We therefore highly recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible.