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Aquatic Leadership Programs
You are finished all your swimming levels so what’s next? In order to become a Lifeguard or Instructor, you need to take your Bronze Medallion first. Not old enough yet? Here are some programs you can do in the meantime to keep up your swimming skills and help you prepare for Bronze Medallion!
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Swimmers continue stroke development and learn lifesaving skills including a 25-metre obstacle swim, 15-metre object carry, and basic first aid skills like assessment of a conscious victim, contacting 9-1-1, and treatment of bleeding. Fitness requirements are a 100-metre timed swim and a 350-metre workout.
Pre-requisite: completed Swimmer 6
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
Swimmers improve their strokes (75-metres of each); learn lifesaving skills like completing a lifesaving medley, timed object support, rescue with a buoyant aid, first aid of an unconscious victim, treatment of shock and obstructed airways.
Pre-requisite: completed Swimmer 7
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This course prepares you for Bronze Medallion. Swimmers develop problem-solving and decision-making skills individually and in partners. Candidates learn C.P.R. and develop numerous lifesaving skills. A 400-metre timed swim is also included.
Pre-requisite: completed Swim Kids 6
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
Students will learn in both a pool and classroom about the lifesaving principles of judgment, knowledge, skill, and fitness through land and water rescues, and swim 500 metres in 15 minutes. This includes the Emergency First Aid course and 100% attendance is required. There will be a practical exam at the end of the course.
Pre-requisite: 13 years of age or completed Bronze Star
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
In this course, students will learn the difference between a lifesaver and a lifeguard and introduces more challenging and advanced lifesaving training including a fitness swim of 600-metres in 18 minutes. This course also includes Standard First Aid. 100% attendance is required.
Pre-requisites: Bronze Medallion and Emergency First Aid certifications
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This is a very intense course and upon completion, candidates will be certified lifeguards. Fitness components in this course include lifting a 20-pound brick off the bottom of the pool, towing, carrying and removing victims for the pool, timed rescues, and underwater swim, and a timed 400-metre swim in 10 minutes or better. 100% attendance is mandatory.
Pre-requisites: 15 years of age, Bronze Cross, and Standard First Aid certifications
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This course is to recertify your National Lifeguard Service Award which needs to be recertified every 2 years. Please bring a copy of your original certification with you.
Prerequisites: National Lifeguard certification
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This course teaches skills like legal implications of first aid treatment, spinal injuries, wounds and bleeding, heat and cold injuries, bone and joint injuries, abdominal and chest injuries, burns, and medical conditions – seizures, diabetes, and cardiac and respiratory conditions along with C.P.R for infant, child and adult and using an automated external defibrillator. 100% attendance is required. You will need a required textbook which is included in the price.
Prerequisites: None
Standard First Aid and CPR recertification through the Lifesaving Society. To attend this recert, you must have taken your original certification with the Lifesaving Society and your qualification must not be expired past the 3 year certification date. You may only have recertified it once or you will need to repeat the entire course.
Prerequisites: First aid course with Lifesaving Society
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This course prepares you to organize, plan, teach and evaluate Lifesaving and first aid skills and resuscitation techniques. Once complete you will be able to teach Canadian Swim Patrol, Bronze star, Medallion, and Cross and Emergency First Aid with CPR.
Prerequisites: 16 years of age and Bronze Cross
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This course will prepare you for a mentorship to examine Lifesaving Society Advanced Courses.
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
Prerequisites: 16 years of age & Standard 1st Aid Certification
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This course prepares candidates to instruct Lifesaving Society Swim programs. a swim stroke screening, and instructional emergency response situations. 100% attendance is mandatory.
All volunteer teaching requirements must be completed prior to starting this course. 100% attendance is mandatory. 100% attendance is mandatory.
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
Pre-requisites: 15 years of age and Bronze Cross certifications
Course manual and certification fees are an additional fee
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool
This course is for deck-level supervisors to provide knowledge and skills beyond the NLS course to manage a safe aquatic environment.
Prerequisites: National Lifeguard and Swim OR Lifesaving Instructor
Location: Quinte Sports and Wellness Centre or Seasonal Kinsmen Pool