Awarding Body

Royal Life Saving Society UK

Scheme

National Vocational Beach Lifeguard Qualification

Course

Assessment

Type

Assessment

Award Description

National Vocational Beach Lifeguard Qualification (NVBLQ)

RLSS UK has teamed up with Surf Life Saving Association (SLSA) Wales to offer the NVBLQ - a national standard for beach lifeguarding. The National Water Safety Forum and the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) endorse the NVBLQ. On completion, candidates will have the skills and knowledge to protect the public at the beach.

If you’d like to learn more about being a Beach Lifeguard, click here.

The NVBLQ course requires a minimum of 40 hours of training followed by a practical assessment.

Course Pre-Requisites:

Every candidate attending a NVBLQ course must:

• Be 16-years-old or over at the time of the assessment
• Have a good level of fitness
• Surface dive to a depth of 1.5 metres
• Tread water for two minutes
• Climb out of deep water unaided and without steps
• Be competent at swimming in the sea
• Before the course, candidates must be able to swim at least 200 metres in a pool (of recommended length 25 metres, but no less than 20 metres) in five minutes or less
• For the assessment, candidates must be able to swim 400 metres in a pool (recommended 25 metres, but no less than 20 metres) in eight minutes or less using a continuous front stroke and showing urgency.

Course Content:

The course covers: all elements of beach lifeguard theory, cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), first aid, pool skills and open water skills and is physically demanding and will include swimming to set times and lifting.

There are four modules, and a candidate must pass all four to attain the qualification.

Module 1 – Beach Lifeguarding – Knowledge & Understanding
Module 2 – Life Support and First Aid
Module 3 – Ocean Skills

This is a two-weekend course: 19-21 August plus 16-18 September (Friday evening plus all day Saturday and Sunday in each case).

Please contact us for full details.

Candidates who hold a current NPLQ may be able to do the course in a reduced number of hours (contact us for details).

We can also faciliate NVBLQ renewala (contact us for details).

Start

19/08/2022 16:00

End

18/09/2022 18:00

Total Days

5

Maximum Bookings

8

Bookings

2

Venue

NYC - New Candidate Course - PROCESSED

Town

Newcastle, County Down

County

Newry, Mourne and Down

Postcode

BT33 0EX

Country

United Kingdom

Latitude

54.20234

Longitude

-5.89192

Name

Union ATP

Phone

07912 604943

Email