Help protect our locals. Be the calm presence when it matters most.
👉 From busy summer days at the pools to quiet community swims, lifeguards play a vital role in ensuring everyone can enjoy the water safely.
From families and kids to lap swimmers and visitors, your vigilance helps create safe, welcoming spaces across our aquatic centres.
Be part of a team that keeps our community safe, confident and supported in and around the water — helping everyone enjoy all that coastal living has to offer.
The Y NSW has been supporting safe aquatic participation for Port Macquarie families since 2022… and we’re growing.
We are building our Lifeguard talent pool across the Port Macquarie Aquatics cluster (4 pools):
👉 Explore our centers: Discover Y NSW Aquatics
✅ Permanent, seasonal and casual opportunities
✅ Work across multiple aquatic centres
✅ Flexible shifts to suit study, lifestyle or career change
✅ Supportive, safety-first team environment
Play a key role in supervising aquatic environments and responding when it counts. We’re looking for lifeguards with:
Interested in becoming a lifeguard? We can support you with:
✅ On-the-job learning opportunities
✅ Guidance to obtain required certifications
✅ Pathways into aquatics, recreation and community safety careers
Upcoming Pool Lifeguard Training at Port Macquarie Olympic Pool 15th & 16th August
Make a real impact in your community
Help keep families and children safe
Be part of a team that supports each other
Work in an environment focused on wellbeing, development and purpose
Whether you're experienced or just starting out — we want to connect.
Apply now and join our Port Macquarie – Hastings Lifeguard Team
At the Y, we are committed to empowering all Children and Young People to feel safe and be safe, at the Y, in their families and in their communities. We embed Safeguarding into everything that we do to make sure Children and Young People are kept safe at all times.
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
