Lifeguard courses
Gain a National Pool Lifeguard Qualification at Riverside Leisure Centre and South Woodham Ferrers Leisure Centre.
The National Pool Lifeguard course (NPLQ) offered by the Royal Lifesaving Society (RLSS) is suitable if you are aged 16 and over and would like to gain a qualification in order to work as a lifeguard.
To complete the course and become a lifeguard, you must be able to:
- jump or dive into deep water
- swim 50m in less than 60 seconds
- swim 100m 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
The week-long course will have both practical and theoretical elements.
At Riverside Leisure Centre we are also offering the Emergency First Aid at Work course (EFAW), also by the RLSS, with some National Pool Lifeguard courses.
Riverside Leisure Centre
- Monday 17 to Saturday 22 February 2025
- Monday 7 to Saturday 12 April 2025
- Monday 28 July to Saturday 2 August 2025
- Monday 11 to Saturday 16 August 2025
South Woodham Ferrers Leisure Centre
We currently have no courses planned.
For a course at Riverside, please email Julia.Freeman@chelmsford.gov.uk.
For a course at SWFLC, please email Sonny.Bent@chelmsford.gov.uk.
You can find out more about the National Pool Lifeguard Qualification.
You can find out if there are currently any lifeguard vacancies at Riverside or South Woodham Ferrers Leisure Centre.
Lockers and changing rooms
- If you want to use a locker, you will need a £1 coin to release the key. You will get the £1 back when you return the key.
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There are individual changing cubicles as well as group female and group male changing areas available.
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