Description
First Aid for School Staff –
5 hours
Important – please read
This Course is only run as a Group Booking minimum of 8. If you are looking for an individual place, let us know and we can put you on our waiting list for spaces on a Private course where the Client will allow spare spaces to be sold to individuals.
First Aid for School Staff is designed for teachers to have a basic understanding of first aid techniques for conditions that they may encounter when looking after children. The course covers primary and secondary care skills.
All our first aid courses fully meet the UK and European Resuscitation Council Guidelines 2015 as per the HSE requirements.
Occupations That Use This Course
- Teachers
- Social workers
- Teaching assistants
- Club leaders
Curriculum
- The role and responsibilities of the first aider
- Managing an emergency situation
- The importance of communication
- Casualty care
- Initial assessment
- Allergic reaction and the use of auto-injectors
- Asthma
- Bleeding management
- Bone, muscle and joint injuries
- Burns
- Choking adult, child and infant
- Head injuries
- Seizures
- CPR adult, child and infant
- Treatment of an unconscious casualty
- Minor injuries including nose bleeds
Instructors
Our Instructors come from a range of professional and voluntary backgrounds such as:
- emergency services (ambulance, police and fire service)
- military (medics)
- outdoor professionals (Mountain leaders)
- Community Responders
- Experienced First Aiders
We aim to match instructors to your specific training requirements. They are aware of the specific needs of various outdoor environments, fully understanding the problems and judgements that have to be made when dealing with incidents in stressful, dangerous and remote situations.
Training
Our training is very practical and hands on. We do not rely upon the usual ‘death by PowerPoint’, instead we use progressive incident scenario based training methods.
Our courses teach techniques proven to work in real life incidents and not just in a classroom. Our training builds confidence and develops first aid skills into complete incident management.
Prerequisites
none
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