Job Description
Job Description
Job Description
Description:
POSITION SUMMARY:
Teaches YMCA swim lesson program classes while maintaining safe swimming conditions in the pool, deck, and surrounding areas. Creates a safe and positive atmosphere that promotes member safety and engagement in accordance with YMCA policies and procedures.
Requirements:
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Responsible for teaching YMCA swim lesson program classes of up to 12 children. Instructors must teach in the water for every class.
- Must be able to teach freestyle, backstroke, breaststroke, elements of butterfly and elementary backstroke and sidestroke.
- Teach the correct skills for the level of class and evaluates student progress based on criteria.
- Make eye contact with students and communicate in terms of students understanding. Asks students questions to monitor their understanding and provide students with feedback on their activities.
- Use positive motivation. Use teachable moments to speak about character development and address behavior with appropriate techniques.
- Must be able to see all students at all times during lesson, never turns back on class.
- Must be skilled in observing the behavior of swimmers in the water and be ready at all times to stop dangerous behavior.
- Maintains effective, positive relationships with the members, participants and other staff.
- Use a variety of organizational patterns maximizing swim time for every student. Smoothly keep class moving from one activity to the other.
- Use teaching aids and equipment appropriately with activities and incorporate games in to classes.
- Balance working with students individually and allowing students to practice on their own.
- Keeps accurate attendance and all other class records current and organized.
- Clean area after every swim lesson class.
- Attends all staff meetings and training as required.
OTHER DUTIES/EXPECTATIONS:
- Must be 5-10 minutes early to every shift and record time worked correctly with limited mistakes.
- Must find coverage if unable to attend a shift. Contact must be made ahead of time if a scheduled shift cannot be worked.
- Flexibility, may be asked to substitute for other employee’s shift or work beyond assigned shift in an effort to ensure safety and proper coverage.
- Mandatory attendance for in-services. In-Service meetings will be scheduled in advance.
- In the event of pool closure, must accommodate an alternate date for swim lesson.
- For Private Swim Instruction, must complete accurate private lesson timesheet at the end of each workday. Must complete and maintain all records assigned as current and up-to-date.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS/QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum age of 16 years.
- Proven knowledge of various swim strokes and teaching levels.
- Previous experience teaching swim lessons preferred.
- Strong vocal ability to project instruction clearly during lessons.
- Excellent interpersonal communication and organizational skills.
- Strong problem-solving skills.
- Must achieve YSL or American Red Cross certification within 1st year of teaching swim lessons.
PHYSICAL DEMANDS
- Ability to swim at least four laps (200 yards) of freestyle and be able to scissor kick (sidestroke) or breaststroke kick.
- Must be willing and able to teach in the water for each class. Must be able to enter and exit pool without assistance.
- Must be able to remain alert.
- Adequate ability to hear noises and distinguish distress signals.
- Ability to lift up to 55 lbs.
- Ability to communicate verbally, including projecting voice across distance in normal and loud situations.
Job Tags
Shift work, Early shift,