Scheme Details
- Awarding Body
- Royal Life Saving Society UK
- Scheme
- National Pool Lifeguard Qualification Generation 9
- Course
- Assessment
- Type
- Assessment
Award Description
National Pool Lifeguard Qualification Generation 9
The NPLQ is the most awarded lifeguard qualification in the UK and Ireland and is also internationally recognised. More than 40,000 pool lifeguards qualify with the RLSS UK every year, and there are currently more than 80,000 pool lifeguards qualified in the NPLQ – 95% of all UK pool lifeguards.
RLSS UK is regulated by Ofqual, Qualifications Wales and CCEA in Northern Ireland.
If you’d like to learn more about being a lifeguard click here.
Lifeguard Course Prerequisites
Every candidate attending a NPLQ course must be 16-years-old at the time of taking the NPLQ final assessment and be able to:
- Jump/dive into deep water
- Swim 50 metres in less than 60 seconds
- Swim 100 metres continuously on front and back in deep water
- Tread water for 30 seconds
- Surface dive to the floor of the pool
- Climb out unaided without ladder/steps and where the pool design permits
About
NPLQ With AED Bolt-On.
Course Pre-Requisites:
> 16+ Years of age on date of assessment
> Able to Jump/Dive into deep water
> Able to swim 50 metres in 60 seconds or less
> Able to swim 100 metres continously on back and then front
> Able to Tread water for 30 seconds in deep water
> Able to Surface dive to floor of pool
> Able to climb out of the pool unaided (without steps or ladders)
To Book onto the course and for further information please send me an email.
~ Cairan
Sessions
| The Lifeguard, Swimming Pool & Supervision | N/A | 25/07/2022 - 30/07/2022 | Details |
| Intervention Rescue & Emergency Action Plan | N/A | 25/07/2022 - 30/07/2022 | Details |
| Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, AED & First Aid | N/A | 25/07/2022 - 30/07/2022 | Details |
| Automated External Defibrillator (AED) | N/A | 25/07/2022 - 30/07/2022 | Details |
| National Pool Lifeguard Qualification - Theory Assessment Paper | N/A | 25/07/2022 - 30/07/2022 | Details |
What is it like being a lifeguard?
Where And When
- Start
- 25/07/2022 09:00
- End
- 30/07/2022 15:00
- Maximum Bookings
- 12
- Bookings
- 7
- Venue
- Dalkeith Schools Community Campus
- Town
- Dalkeith
- County
- Midlothian
- Postcode
- EH22 2PS
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Latitude
- 55.90165
- Longitude
- -3.04495
Provider
- Name
- Dalkeith School Community Campus
- Phone
- 01316600265