Beach Lifeguards (Casual)

Spend your summer on the beach making a valuable contribution in your community as a Casual Beach Lifeguard. Apply now and rewrite the future with us.

• Fun and challenging environment combining high level fitness, technical first aid and people skills
• Multiple casual positions available for the 2025 - 2026 summer season
• Salary ranges from $40.17 to $48.29 per hour (inclusive of casual loading) + allowance + 12% superannuation 

About the role

This is an exciting opportunity for suitably qualified and experienced individuals to join our Beach Safety team located within Council's Leisure, Beach Safety and Community Facilities Unit.

Our Casual Beach Lifeguards play a key role in supporting the Central Coast community and our many visitors over the summer season by assisting in providing aquatic safety across the 16 patrolled beach locations within the Central Coast Region. The 2025-26 summer season commences 22 September 2025. 

Successful applicants will be employed on a casual day-to-day basis and will have an opportunity to work up to 38 hours per week, rostered as required over a variable spread of hours, Monday to Friday (excluding public holidays) at various patrolled locations.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

Key activities of this role include:

• Monitor Aquatic Environment for safe swimming at specified location giving full attention to all environmental changes;
• Respond to emergency situations as required and ensure appropriate reporting of these incidents;
• Communicate and educate general public on beach safety;
• Clean and maintain all rescue equipment and facilities required to perform duties to the highest possible standard on a daily basis;
• Follow directions set by Beach Safety Team Leader, Beach Safety Officer and/or Senior/Seasonal Beach Lifeguards, to ensure delivery of Beach Lifeguard service, and work across multiple locations within the local government area.

Essential Criteria includes:

• Current Provide First Aid certificate HLTAID 011;
• Ability to obtain Provide Advanced Resuscitation HLTAID 015;
• Current NSW General Boating Licence or ability to obtain prior to season commencement;
• Current Class C Driver’s Licence or Provisional Drivers Licence;
• Working with Children Check or willingness to obtain prior to season commencement;
• Demonstrated experience in lifeguarding or other emergency service areas with a demonstrated strong commitment to customer service;
• Demonstrated ability to carry out safety procedures and use appropriate safety equipment;
• Demonstrated knowledge of, and commitment to, Work Health and Safety Principles, Environment Management Principles and Equal Opportunity Principles.

Shortlisted applicants must be available to:

• Attend the nominated skills testing day and complete the entire test on the day specified, and be available to attend an interview on the allocated interview day if successful in passing all physical skills testing;
• Bring to Testing Day or Interview any relevant qualifications and licences as requested in the advertised Essential Criteria, both original and photocopies. Licence numbers must be referenced in the application in order to proceed to testing;
• Provide a Working with Children Check Clearance under the Child Protection (Working with Children) Regulation 2013 (if over 18).

The skills testing and interview day will be held on Thursday, 28 August 2025. 

Shortlisted applicants must pass all of the following skills testing requirements:

• 800m pool swim in under 14 minutes;
• Complete beep test to a predetermined level as required;
• Beach run, swim, run, swim, paddle, run, paddle, run within a given time;
• Simulated use of rescue equipment in performing surf rescues, including rescue board and rescue tube;
• Practical and written first aid examination and assessment;
• Assess a patient and apply spinal care management principles;
• Competent use of all oxygen equipment.

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.