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
- Monday 17th July 08.30-17.30
- Tuesday 18th July 08.30-17.30
- Wednesday 19th July 08.30-17.30
- Thursday 20th July 08:30-17:30
- Friday 21st July 08:30-18:30 (assessment 14:30-18:30)
Full attendance is required along with the following pre-course requisites:
- Be 16+ years of age on the date of assessment
- Jump / dive into deep water
- Swim 50 metres in no more than 60 seconds
- Swim 100 metres continuously on front and 100m continuously on back
- In deep water, tread water for 30 seconds
- Surface dive to the floor of the pool
- Climb out of the pool unaided without using a ladder / steps where the pool design permits
The cost of the course is £250 inclusive of course materials and includes a seperate qualification in AED (automated external defibrillation).
For more details, please contact the course tutor Alan Cockram at Honiton Leisure Centre:
01404 42325
acockram@ledleisure.co.uk
Sessions
| The Lifeguard, Swimming Pool & Supervision | N/A | 17/07/2023 - 21/07/2023 | Details |
| Intervention Rescue & Emergency Action Plan | N/A | 17/07/2023 - 21/07/2023 | Details |
| Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation, AED & First Aid | N/A | 17/07/2023 - 21/07/2023 | Details |
| Automated External Defibrillator (AED) | N/A | 17/07/2023 - 21/07/2023 | Details |
| National Pool Lifeguard Qualification - Theory Assessment Paper | N/A | 17/07/2023 - 21/07/2023 | Details |
What is it like being a lifeguard?
Where And When
- Start
- 17/07/2023 08:30
- End
- 21/07/2023 17:30
- Total Days
- 5
- Maximum Bookings
- 12
- Bookings
- 11
- Venue
- LED Honiton Leisure Centre
- Town
- Honiton
- County
- Devon
- Postcode
- EX14 1QW
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Latitude
- 50.80222
- Longitude
- -3.19211
Provider
- Name
- Honiton Sports Centre
- Phone
- 01404 42325
- Website