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Job Details

Lifeguard

Employer

Alberta Health Services

Date Posted

May 28, 2025
Updated May 28, 2025

Languages

English
  • Location Edmonton, AB
  • Earnings $24.92 to $27.20 hourly (to be negotiated)
  • Work Hours 38.75 hours per week
  • Position Permanent Full Time
  • Vacancies 1  Vacancy
  • Closing Date Jun 18, 2025
Job Requirements

Employer

Alberta Health Services

Languages

English

Education

Other trades certificate or diploma

Work setting

  • Swimming pool/centre
  • Hospital/medical facility or clinic
  • Rehabilitation centre and special health institution

Tasks

  • Demonstrate and instruct athletic, fitness or sports activities and techniques
  • Assist with coordination of recreational, sport and fitness events
  • Plan and carry out recreational, fitness and sports activities
  • Leading/instructing groups
  • Leading/instructing individuals
  • Conduct therapeutic recreational or athletic activities
  • Assist clients/guests with special needs
  • Monitor recreational, sports or fitness activities to ensure safety and provide emergency or first aid assistance when required

Personal suitability

  • Accurate
  • Client focus
  • Dependability
  • Excellent oral communication
  • Excellent written communication
  • Flexibility
  • Initiative
  • Interpersonal awareness
  • Judgement
  • Organized
  • Reliability
  • Team player

Government programs

Recognized employer

Experience

Experience an asset

Health benefits

  • Dental plan
  • Disability benefits
  • Health care plan
  • Paramedical services coverage
  • Vision care benefits

Financial benefits

As per collective agreement


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Interest Codes & Abilities
The Lifeguard is part of the following larger National Occupational Classification (NOC).

Interest Codes

Program Leaders and Instructors in Recreation, Sport and Fitness
METHODICAL

Interest in manipulating and assembling supplies and sports and game equipment; and in monitoring recreational and sports activities to ensure safety and provide emergency and first aid assistance when required

SOCIAL

Interest in instructing groups and individuals in arts, crafts and similar activities; in leading groups and individuals in recreational and leisure programs, and in attending clients with special needs by conducting therapeutic recreational and athletic activities

innovative

Interest in co-ordinating information to plan recreational, athletic, fitness and sports programs

Reading Interest Codes
A Quick Guide

The interest code helps you figure out if you’d like to work in a particular occupation. 

It’s based on the Canadian Work Preference Inventory (CWPI), which measures 5 occupational interests: Directive, Innovative, Methodical, Objective, and Social.

Each set of 3 interest codes for this NOC group is listed in order of importance.

A code in capital letters means it’s a strong fit for the occupation.

A code in all lowercase letters means the fit is weaker.

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