Team Lead, Aquatics

3 months ago

Vancouver, Canada YMCA BC Full time

**Date Posted**: September 23, 2024

**Position Title**: Team Lead, Aquatics

**Location**: Robert Lee YMCA (955 Burrard St, Vancouver)

**Terms**: Full-Time, Permanent (35 hours per week)

**Shifts**: Shifts vary but will include weekdays, evenings and weekends

**Wage**: $23.84 per hour + full benefits package

**Start Date**: As soon as possible

**Reports To**: Supervisor, Aquatics

**Nature & Scope**:
The Aquatics Team Leader will report to the Aquatics Supervisor, and work collaboratively with other members of the YMCA team to provide a safe and fun aquatics environment. The Team Leader is responsible for providing support and delivering family focused programming and services, as well as helping to monitor and support program quality.

**Major Responsibilities**:

- Effectively guard and instruct to the required performance standards
- Provide support and leadership to swim instructors so they may meet performance criteria.
- Initiate communication with parents during swim lessons
- Prepare instructor assignments, makes adjustments as needed and completes required administrative duties in consultation with Aquatic Supervisor
- Provide support and leadership to lifeguards to ensure the pool rules, procedures and practices meet the required standards
- Build meaningful relationships through positive daily interaction with YMCA members, visitors, and colleagues
- Assists the Supervisor, Aquatics with general administrative duties.
- Remain flexible - willing to learn new skills, alter shifts
- Attend staff meetings, planning sessions and training events as required
- Maintain regular attendance, punctuality and be appropriately dressed and well groomed

**Requirements**:

- Current Standard First Aid (valid within 2 years)
- CPR-C & AED certificate (valid within 1 year)
- Swim Instructor certification or equivalent
- Current National Lifeguard (NL) pool option - preferred
- Experience as a Lifeguard or Swimming Instructor - preferred
- Access to reliable transportation or a vehicle
- Advanced leadership courses are an asset
- Demonstrated high level of customer service skills
- 3 professional references

**Application Deadline**: September 23, 2024The YMCA cares about the same things you do: raising healthy and resilient children, ensuring youth feel confident and supported, and helping people feel healthy and connected to others in the community**. **As the Lower Mainland's largest operational charity, we are 4,000 staff and volunteers providing vital community services that are having a positive impact on some of the community's most pressing social issues. Central to our success are:

- The **people** who unite behind our mission to help people reach their potential
- The safe and welcoming **places** we provide—from health and fitness facilities to childcare centres to camps—that foster a sense of community
- The comprehensive community **programs** that provide the skills, opportunities and confidence people need to achieve their potential

These people, places, and programs come together to create a sense of belonging and a supportive network that have proven time and again to help people achieve their personal goals. For some the impact can be truly transformational and can have an enormous ripple effect on those around them.

**About You**:

- ** Do the right thing - **You are caring, respectful, honest and responsible in all you do
- ** Put people first -**You believe in the strengths, perspectives and passion of people
- ** Keep our promises -**You do what you say you will do
- ** Lead by example -**You are courageous, speak with conviction, listen attentively and collaborate

**Competencies**:
**_ Commitment to Organization and Values: _**Demonstrates and promotes a personal understanding of and appreciation for the mission, vision, outcomes and values of the YMCA.

**_ Leadership:_** Motivates and inspires self and others to take action to achieve desired outcomes.

**_ Communication: _**Communicates in a thorough, clear and timely manner.

**_ Creativity and Innovation:_** Develops new ways or adapts existing ideas to improve programs and service.

**_ Team Work:_** **The ability to work effectively with others to achieve optimal results.

**_ Product Knowledge:_** **Thorough understanding of the components required in providing quality care.

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