Swim Instructor (Per Diem/Registry) - Wellness Center
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Humboldt Park Health
Chicago, IL, US
Summary
Lead individual and group swim lessons for members and guests while ensuring a safe learning environment. Assess individual swimmer abilities and maintain all necessary safety certifications and protocols.
Job Description
Position Summary:
This role is responsible for providing effective and safe swim instruction tailored to individuals’ needs and abilities that are participating in private or small group lessons.
Primary Duties:
- Lead individual and group learn to swim lessons for members and guests.
- Teach within the standards and guidelines of swim instructor certification.
- Understand individual abilities to deliver lessons in a safe and effective manor to all levels of physical ability.
- Ability to assess individual needs through evaluation of strength and proficiency in the water.
- Maintain required certifications in good standing and complete any required continuing education.
- Ability to be flexible and accommodating to meet Wellness Center hours and member needs.
- Must meet and maintain all safety requirements and certifications necessary to perform job duties.
- Complete knowledge of all Wellness Center safety protocols and confidence communicating via radio/overhead and with EMS as needed.
- Represent Humboldt Park Health in a positive and professional manner.
Position Requirements:
- Minimum Basic Swim Instructor certification required, American Red Cross or equivalent. Water Safety Instructor certification preferred.
- Previous experience teaching swim lessons is preferred.
- CPR/AED certification is required.
- Be dependable, alert, and able to interact with members and guests of all ages in a positive manner.
- Maintain composure and act appropriately in moments when multiple unexpected challenges arise concurrently.
- Possess a passion for fitness, health, athletics, and wellness. Enthusiastic, professional, and genuine demeanor.
- Ability to work evenings and weekends.
Humboldt Park Health is a 123-year-old safety-net hospital located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, committed to providing high quality, affordable, and compassionate health services by partnering with patients and their families, its employees and physicians. Humboldt Park Health believes that its role as the primary community health care provider is to treat and cure disease and to promote wellness through health education, prevention, and early intervention. Services include in-patient acute care, emergency care, diagnostic services and primary care in a 200-bed hospital, as well as a full-service professional building, community clinics, and two mobile health units.
Founded
1894
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
Humboldt Park Health is a 123-year-old safety-net hospital located in the Humboldt Park neighborhood of Chicago, committed to providing high quality, affordable, and compassionate health services by partnering with patients and their families, its employees and physicians. Humboldt Park Health believes that its role as the primary community health care provider is to treat and cure disease and to promote wellness through health education, prevention, and early intervention. Services include in-patient acute care, emergency care, diagnostic services and primary care in a 200-bed hospital, as well as a full-service professional building, community clinics, and two mobile health units.
Founded
1894
Company size
501-1,000 employees
Industry
Hospitals and Health Care
Org type
Nonprofit
Headquarters
Chicago, IL
