Natatorium | Water Safety Instructor

Essential Functions: Provide excellent swimming and water safety instruction to participants. Create lesson plans, methods and goals supporting the required skills for each class taught. Complete required paperwork for each class. Have positive interactions with students, parents, co-workers and supervisors. Enforce and follow the Natatorium's rules and policies. Provide excellent customer service. Be available to sub for instructors. Assist with moving deck and water equipment as needed to prepare for activities in the pool. Retrieve equipment to prepare for class and put it away when not in use. Maintain facility cleanliness and complete cleaning tasks as assigned. Attend and participate in meetings or in-services as required. Perform related duties as assigned by the Administrator to meet the particular needs of the building/unit.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to speak and hear. The employee is required to have dexterity of hands and fingers. The employee is required to sit and stand for extended periods of time. The employee must perform assigned duties which require bending, kneeling, twisting, and reaching overhead, above shoulders and horizontally. The employee will be required to push/pull, lift and carry up to 50 pounds on a regular basis. Must be able to swim 25 yards of freestyle, breaststroke, elementary backstroke, sidestroke and butterfly, tread water continuously for least 2 minutes and dive into the pool from the side.