Lifesaving

STA Level 3 Award for Pool Lifeguards

Being a pool lifeguard is a fantastic role for those looking for a rewarding, active, and challenging profession. Training provides essential lifesaving, first aid, and transitional knowledge and skills making it a fantastic career choice whether it be short-term, long-term, or a steppingstones onto other careers. 

A pool lifeguard can be an employee, a contractor, or a volunteer. Working hours can often fit around lifestyles with options of full-time, part-time, and casual hours, as well as morning, daytime, evening, and weekend shifts, providing work-life balance, or to work alongside studying commitments. 

Countless employment opportunities are available within public leisure centres and private pool operators who are on the search for qualified and motivated pool lifeguards. 

The agreed industry pre-requisite to become a pool lifeguard is for learners to have achieved a CIMSPA endorsed educational product that fully meets the CIMSPA Professional Standard: Lifeguard. STA Level 3 Award for Pool Lifeguards qualification fully meets this professional standard and is therefore an agreed industry accepted qualification for pool lifeguards to hold in order to gain employment anywhere in the UK. 

This qualification is regulated by Ofqual (England), Qualification Wales (Wales) and CCEA (Northern Ireland). This qualification is valid for a period of 3 years. Learners need to retake the qualification before the certificate expiry date to remain qualified

STA Level 3 Award For Pool Emergency Responders

Designed to assist operators of small shallow 'hotel' type pools in meeting their legal responsibilities and for anyone who may assist a lifeguard team. This is not a lifeguard qualification; it is for those who need to respond to an emergency situation. 

This qualification is regulated by Ofqual (England), Qualification Wales (Wales) and CCEA (Northern Ireland). This qualification is valid for a period of 2 years. The learner needs to retake the qualification before the certificate expiry date to remain qualified.