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Courses

Rookie Lifeguard.   (Rookie Lessons) Keeping the children safe in water, you know it makes sense.

Rookies Lessons, are run each week on a Wednesday evening from 6pm to 6-45pm.

Thousands of children across the UK are set to learn how to become lifesavers as a result of a new scheme Rookie Lifeguard Programme, launched as part of the National Plan for Swimming.

The Rookie Lifeguard programme is aimed primarily at children from eight years old and above. The course, which has been designed by water safety specialists at RLSS UK, is designed to ensure that every child in the country has essential water skills to keep themselves safe and knowledge of what to do in an emergency. The programme features swimming and lifesaving skills supported by water safety education, allowing participants to enjoy swimming as an activity and, vitally, to protect their lives should an accident occur in or out of the water.

  Why not pay the RLS a visit, you can by clicking on this button  Rookie Lifeguard link to RLSS page opens in a new window.

NPLQ Courses

The next course will be announced on here when a date has been firmed up. Courses are run by Settle Swimming Pool all year round so please keep checking back here for the next available course.

The course covers practical life-guarding skills, theory, basic first aid and resuscitation. Training and assessment is in two units:

  • Unit 1 The Principles of Lifesaving and Swimming Pool Supervision
  • Unit 2 The Application of Supervision and Rescue in a Swimming Pool.

Assessment for Unit 1 takes place at the conclusion of a training course, minimum 31 hours for new candidates. It determines a candidate's knowledge and understanding of the principles of working as a pool lifeguard and of his or her ability in a range of lifesaving skills, as they relate to rescue, in a range of common emergency situations that could occur in any pool.

Unit 2 is continuously assessed over a course, minimum 7 hours further training. It determines the candidate's ability to apply the Unit 1 skills and knowledge in a work related environment as they would apply in a swimming pool.

The National Pool Lifeguard Qualification (NPLQ) is awarded upon successful completion of both units