Kickstart your RNLI lifeguarding career in Norfolk and Suffolk

The RNLI is currently recruiting beach lifeguards to work at various locations in Norfolk and Suffolk during summer 2025. During the season, lifeguards are stationed at Wells-next-the-Sea, Sheringham, West Runton, East Runton, Cromer, Mundesley, Sea Palling, Hemsby, Great Yarmouth, Gorleston, Lowestoft and Southwold.

RNLI lifeguards support the charity’s aim to keep people safe and to prevent them from getting into danger. Successful applicants will receive world class training in search and rescue, lifesaving and casualty care techniques, as well as boosting their CVs with invaluable skills that will impress future employers.

RNLI lifeguards play a crucial role in keeping beachgoers safe by sharing safety advice to prevent incidents, responding to first aid incidents and assisting with missing/found people and providing a swift rescue response to anyone in difficulty. Lifeguards will get the opportunity to join local RNLI lifeboat crews and Coastguards on training exercises that offer both local lifeguards and the lifeboat crew the chance to practice their collaborative rescue skills.

RNLI Lifeguard Supervisor, Sam Kendrick, said: ‘I have been a beach lifeguard for 24 years, first qualifying in 2001. I can confidently say that it is the best summer job you will ever have. You will learn a variety of exciting and useful skills and meet lots of interesting people while supporting the RNLI in saving lives at sea.’

To apply to become an RNLI lifeguard, applicants need to hold a valid ILS-recognised beach lifeguard qualification. For people who don’t have this, a SLSGB Beach Lifeguard Course will be running from 7-12 April 2025 from 9:30am to 5:00pm in Cromer. More details about the course and requirements can be found on RNLI website and Get Fit. Stay Fit. Save Lives!

If you would like to have the incredible opportunity to call the beach your office while supporting the charity in saving lives at sea and making sure the public enjoy the beach in the safest way possible more information is available from the requirements page https://lifesavingjobs.rnli.org/become-a-lifeguard/requirements-and-training and to register your interest https://forms.gle/uzCBbmxQoP4Jy9FV7 or contact Ted Morgan (Lead Lifeguard Supervisor) [email protected]

Notes to editors

Lifeguard Course will be running from 7-12 April 2025 from 9:30am to 5:00pm in Cromer. More details about the course and requirements can be found on RNLI Website and Get Fit. Stay Fit. Save Lives! Website.

Requirements-

Complete a 400m pool swim in under 7½ minutes, the first 200m of which must be completed in under 3½ minutes.

Complete a 25m pool swim underwater and a 25m surface swim consecutively in under 50 seconds.

Complete a 200m beach run in under 40 seconds.

RNLI media contacts

For more information please telephone Jess Curtis, RNLI Media Engagement Placement, North and East on: 07860200790 or [email protected] contact the RNLI Press Office on 01202 336789.

Key facts about the RNLI

The RNLI charity saves lives at sea. Its volunteers provide a 24-hour search and rescue service around the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland coasts. The RNLI operates 238 lifeboat stations in the UK and Ireland and more than 240 lifeguard units on beaches around the UK and Channel Islands. The RNLI is independent of Coastguard and government and depends on voluntary donations and legacies to maintain its rescue service. Since the RNLI was founded in 1824, its lifeboat crews and lifeguards have saved over 146,000 lives.

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Contacting the RNLI - public enquiries

Members of the public may contact the RNLI on 0300 300 9990 (UK) or 1800 991802 (Ireland) or by email.