Reports to: Club Manager
What is a Lead Volunteer?
The Lead Volunteer is responsible for supporting committee members to run the swim sessions. Working closely with the Club Manager, Volunteer Manager and Swimmer Manager they will ensure sessions are safe, inclusive and fun.
This can be either on pool side or in the water, floating around pairs.
Celebrating diversity, the Lead Volunteer will motivate, inspire and encourage people to keep coming back to the swimming sessions, which they make inclusive and welcoming.
What’s in it for you?
- Meeting people and being part of a friendly community
- Experience supporting and developing others
- Responsibility co- running swim sessions, without time commitment outside those sessions
- Supporting swimmers 121 in the water
- Share knowledge / volunteer training – such as breathing / kicking exercises
What’s involved?
- To support the session by having oversight of all the swimming pairs in one pool and giving them extra help if needed.
- To have an overview of safety, knowing which swimmers are at risk from health conditions, physical need or swimming ability.
- Liaising with lifeguards to ensure they have appropriate information.
- Get to know swimmers so they can bridge the gap from week to week, reminding people of what they have done previously or what they might be working on.
- Supporting volunteers with ideas in conversation, ideas for exercises.
- Supporting role could be done once a month and their other swim session in the month could be to swim with swimmers 121.
- Communication with volunteers and swimmers making them feel welcome
This role will suit people who…
Have a friendly and enthusiastic manner and enjoy working with a great diversity of people. People who are empathetic, patient, motivational, intuitive, committed, reliable. It would help to be a confident swimmer.
We proactively support diversity, in all its forms, and welcome applicants from a wide range of backgrounds and with disabilities.
Extra information
Pool : Ironmonger Row Baths
Sessions: Tuesday evenings 8-9pm
Hours/week: 2 sessions /month
Training Task specific training will be provided to you as a volunteer
Expenses WeSwim are unfortunately not currently able to cover expenses