All organisations must ensure by law that they have a sufficient number of employees who possess a first-aid qualification to fulfil their first-aid needs at all times. Heathcote training can ensure personnel are available to deal with a medical emergency.

First Aid at Work (3 days)

The RQF Level 3 First Aid at Work Qualification covers a wide range of practical skills, CPR and first aid skills needed by a first aider in the workplace.

Who should attend?

Nominated workplace first aiders, or anyone wanting to learn life saving skills

What will you learn?

The qualification will give you confidence as a first aider, how to assess an incident and recognising signs and symptoms of injury and illness.

What will the course teach me?

The qualification covers a number of subjects in first aid these include:

• CPR and use of an AED
• Management of an unresponsive casualty
• Assisting a casualty who is suffering from injury
• Managing a bleed
• Heart attacks
• Stroke
• Choking
• Burns and Scalds
• Chest injuries,
• Spinal injuries
• Anaphylaxis.
• Seizures
• Diabetes
• Heat and Cold conditions

The First Aid at Work course is 18 hours and can be delivered over three consecutive days or can be split into smaller sessions to suit your business needs. We can offer a blended learning option with this qualification that reduces the face to face time by 6 hours, where the learners studies in their own time and completes the E-learning prior to the face to face that will be conducted over 12 hours.

Assessment

The course comprises of practical and theory assessment that follow a continuous assessment approach with a multiple choice question set at the end of the course.

This course is legally compliant with Health and Safety (first aid) Regulations 1981. We deliver accredited courses, this allows you to evidence due diligence with at any further paperwork and it ensures you that the course you receive it current, in date and relevant to the subject. The qualification is valid for three years after which a requalification course will allow you to remain a qualified first aider.

Emergency First Aid at Work

RQF Level 3 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work

Who should attend?

Learners who wish to become emergency first-aiders in the workplace.

What will you learn?

This qualification meets the requirements for training emergency first-aiders in those organisations that have identified that staff need to be trained to this level within their first-aid due to smaller numbers in the workforce, to back up First aid at work teams or where the time frame for help only requires Emergency first aider on site.

What will the course teach me?

• The qualification covers knowledge such as:
• The roles and responsibilities of the first aider
• CPR and use of an AED,
• Managing and unresponsive casualty
• providing first aid to a casualty who is choking
• External bleeding and hypovolemic shock.
• Minor injuries

This course takes just six hours to complete. It can be delivered over two, three hour sessions.
This qualification can also be delivered with a blended learning approach that will reduce face to face by two hours where the you study in your own time and must complete the E-learning prior to the face to face that will be conducted over four hours.

Assessment

The course comprises of practical and theory assessment that follow a continuous assessment approach with a multiple choice question set at the end of the course.

This course is legally compliant with Health and Safety (first aid) Regulations 1981. We deliver accredited courses, this allows you to evidence due diligence with at any further paperwork and it ensures you that the course you receive it current, in date and relevant to the subject. The qualification is valid for three years after which a requalification course will allow you to remain a qualified first aider.