Australia Beach Life Guard Information
For 22 days you will train on the Northern Beaches of Sydney and the world famous Gold Coast in Queensland. This is the hotbed of surfing and lifeguarding in Australia. Your personal instructors are a combination of Surfers, Beach Lifeguards and Paramedics. This is the ultimate ocean training course, demanding a lot from participants and designed to produce skilled men and women who are capable of working in the global surfing / lifeguarding industry. Professional ocean employment requires an individual to be well trained, physically fit and highly motivated.We can also provide you with a Working Holiday visum . This way you can get straight to work after your Beach Lifeguard training in Australia. You can make up to Euro 500 a week!
Course Overview
The Course begins on the Northern Beaches of Sydney where you will undergo fitness and surf skills assessment and begin preparations for obtaining your Lifeguard qualifications. The first ten days of this course will prepare you for the skills and fitness requirements that will be demanded by Instructors later in the course. You will experience beach, reef and point break type waves during the training period. From Sydney, you will fly to Coolangatta, on the NSW / Queensland border. Arriving on Queensland’s Gold Coast, you will stay at Kirra Beach and begin the technical part of the program. The Beach Lifeguard Programme trains you in the skills and qualifications required for becoming a successful Lifeguard surpassing the basic general requirements within Australia for working as a Lifeguard on our many beaches.
Work opportunities
The changes of you finding a job after the Beach Lifeguard programme are pretty high! This is because 90% of all Australians live within 50km of the coast. As a result, Australian’s gravitate to the ocean on a regular basis and surfing is one of the most popular recreational pastimes. This combined with large swells and rugged coastline provides the ultimate training ground for Professional Beach Lifeguard instruction. The Australian summer lasts for seven months and at major swimming areas like Sydney and Queensland’s Gold Coast, the Professional Lifeguard Services operate dawn to dusk 7 days a week.
Finding work after the course
While we cannot guarantee you a job (after all it is up to you to get out there and get interviewing) the job prospects are highly tipped in your favour with this course. 90% of Australians live by the coast and the demand for professional lifeguards is high. Our partners ensure they do all they can to assist you in finding work and have assisted many people in finding their first job. They can assist by setting you up on the job register and also getting your name out there through their own network of over 50 surf schools in Queensland. It is unlikely that you will not be able to find work should you successfully complete the course and make the required effort to find a job.
Accommodation
The accommodation is comfortable and situated on Collaroy Beach in Sydney and Kirra Strand on the Gold Coast. Both accommodations are just across the Sea. You share a room with other lifeguard participants and there is a shared bathroom is these nice houses along the coast of Australia. All accommodation is very social, friendly and close to bars and restaurants.
Facilities: Garden, washing machine, Phone boots, internet, BBQ area, TV room and swimming pool.
Living in Sydney
Sydney is one of the finest cities in the world and the beach side suburb of Collaroy, your home for the beginning of your programme, is 10 miles from Sydney's Central Business District. Manly, the gateway to the Northern Beaches, is the home of surfing in Australia, the first world surfing championship was held at Manly in 1964. Manly Beach is the first of 20 beaches that form the Northern Beaches of Sydney. The last beach is the famed Palm Beach where homes cost up to 20 million Australian dollars and the rich and famous spend their summers relaxing at the many restaurants and cafes.
Living on Queensland’s Gold Coast
The strip of land that stretches from Coolangatta in the south to Surfers Paradise in the north is called the Gold Coast and is the most electric tourist strip in Australia – awesome waves and nightlife combine with pristine water and beautiful lush hinterland – this is paradise and will be your home for two weeks of the course. Staying at Kirra Beach (Home of one the world’s most famous waves) you will undergo the technical component of the course as well as enjoying this incredible part of Australia.
How Do I Get There
The programme starts in Sydney. If you want help with booking your flights please let us know.
Starting Dates
The course runs 4 times a year. Starting dates in July, August, November and January. Contact us for dates.
Price & Dates
- The price is Euro 2599
- Contact us for starting dates.
Including
- A warm welcome
- Airport transfers
- All accommodations as described
- Breakfast in Queensland accommodation
- Full instruction
- Professional instructors
- All equipment
- 24 hour back up support
Excluded
- Flights
- Travel insurance
- Visa
- Meals (excep breakfast in Queensland
- Drinks
- Laundry service
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Itinerary
Course Components
Activities you will experience:
Professional instruction
Lifeguarding Skills
CPR / Resuscitation methods
Surfing
Swimming and Running
High Level Fitness Training
Ocean appreciation and awareness
Emergency Care Training
Aquatic and Surf Rescue Training
Simulated board rescue (paddle to rescue an unconscious patient, demonstrate rollover, demonstrate deep water resuscitation simulation, return patient unassisted and simulate patient care including placing patient in recovery position)
Rescue tube rescue (swim with rescue tube to rescue an unconscious patient, demonstrate securing patient in rescue tube, demonstrate deep water resuscitation simulation, return patient unassisted and simulate patient care including placing patient in recovery position
Fitness and strength
Swim 800m in a 25m to 50m length pool in a time less than 15 minutes
Lifeguard mission (ocean swim, beach run, rescue board paddle and beach run over a set M shape course commencing with 600m swim, followed by an 800m beach run, followed by a 600m rescue board paddle and concluding with an 800m beach run, within a time determined by the council). Overall time recorded for comparison with other candidates.
General Fitness Training
Demonstrate skills including:
Ability to perform effective first aid and resuscitation following a rescue from an aquatic environment
Communication/interpersonal skills to promote compliance with safety rules and regulations and respond to an aquatic emergency
Application of casualty management procedures
Application of supervision techniques in an aquatic environment
Recognition and appropriate response to aquatic emergencies requiring basic and advanced water rescue techniques
Demonstrate knowledge and understanding including:
Organisational emergency procedures
Occupational Health and Safety and other relevant legislative requirements
Identification of individuals who may be at risk
Signs and symptoms of physical injury
First aid techniques and procedures
Crowd control in emergency situations
Rescue equipment used in aquatic emergencies
Hazardous behaviour that poses risks to clients
Facility or environmental hazards
Role of lifeguard
Prerequisites for Trip
Trainees should be able to swim 400m continuously in a 25m to 50m length pool in 9 minutes 30 seconds or less. Also previous ocean experience is beneficial. Trainees will need to have an appreciation and understanding of surfing, but could be a novice surfer. At the end of the trip, you will be asked to complete Lifeguard Mission (600m ocean swim, 800m beach run, 600m rescue board paddle, 800m beach run over a set M shape course in set time) or similar.
Physical Rating
Good Level of fitness required. Although there is a large fitness training component included in the Program, participants are advised that a good basic level of fitness is required to begin the Program.
Arrival
Travellers should arrive in Sydney on the start date of the trip. You will be picked up from Sydney International Airport and taken to the accommodation. Here travellers will have a full briefing of the tour package and will have a chance to meet the other travellers and your Lead Coordinator, and be informed of your itinerary for the duration of your tour.
Departure
Placements finish on the published end date and travellers should leave the programme on this date. As program will finish in Queensland, departures can be arranged from either Brisbane or Sydney. Any overnight stays after completion of Course will be at Applicants expense but can be arranged. If travelling to other countries after you leave, do take into consideration visa regulations. Flights from Brisbane to the UK are available if you wish to stay on the Gold Coast at the completion of the course.
Transport
Pick up at Sydney International airport is included.
Training venues for the majority of the Programs are extremely close and can be accessed by walking/running or with a short shuttle bus or public transport bus trip. For any training outside the immediate area, you will be advised of the best transport options via public transport bus services.
In Country Staff
There are a number of people who will take care of you during your time abroad. You will have contact with many of them. Others will be working -behind the scenes- to ensure you have a fun and rewarding experience. However, the main person in charge of making sure you are getting the most out of your trip is the Lead Coordinator. They are a member of staff who live in-country full time and, as their job title suggests, they are responsible for coordinating all aspects of the programme, as well as offering advice and guidance throughout your stay. Please note that you should go to your Lead Coordinator if you have any problems whatsoever, be it with the trip, your overall experience or something more serious. Make sure you tell them in-country because, if they don�t know about your problem, they can�t solve it for you!
Kit List
The following list is designed to help you select and prepare your personal equipment for your trip overseas. Please note that you are not expected to take any equipment that is specifically required for your programme as this will be provided to you as part of the placement and includes wetsuits, wetshirts and surf boards. However feel free to take your own wetsuit and surf board if you have one. Remember that you will be surf training / having lectures / fitness training in the week in a warm to hot climate so should bring plenty of training kit - shorts / T-shirts, running shoes, swimming goggles and sun protection, suncream as well as hats and sunglasses.
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