Emergency First Aid at Work 

1 day course, £75 per person

This course is a lifesaver course, giving participants essential lifesaving emergency techniques. Covering the needs of the "Appointed Person", tailored to your workplace.  The qualification can only be delivered by HSE approved organisations or Centres of OfQual/SQA accredited Awarding Organisations.

The course is very popular in organisations where the training of all staff across a shift pattern to "First Aid at Work" level would be excessive and overly expensive.

Emergency First Aid at Work course provides you with the skills to save lives when you are the only person with the ability to do so. The course covers dealing with an incident, calling for help, treatment of the unconscious casualty, CPR techniques, dealing with bleeding, shock and medical emergencies.

Paediatric First Aid

12 hour course, £130 per person

Approved by Paediatric First Aid Association, this 12 hour course deals with child and infant first aid, and covers caring for children in the absence of their parents, what to include in a first-aid kid for babies, demonstrate resuscitation techniques using models of babies and how to record accidents and incidents.

Suitable for pre-school staff, nursery staff, play workers, children centre staff, teachers, LSAs and MTAs, holiday camp workers, parent and toddler group volunteers, childminders and nannies, foster carers, au pairs, mothers helpers, babysitters, community workers, youth workers, parents and grandparents.

Note: course can be run at your venue.

Automatic External Defibrillator (AED)

3 hour course  £90

This 3 hour course covers essential first aid for a collapsed casualty plus how to attach and use an Automatic External Defibrillator safely and effectively.

Outdoor First Aid

16 hour course, £130 per person

This is a 16 hour course accredited by Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA) and is listed on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) at Level 2. There will be regular breaks for refreshments and a break for lunch. As part of the course will take place outdoors, ensure you bring clothing appropriate to the weather conditions.

The course focuses on managing incidents both on-site and away from your base, and course contents include:

  • Assessment of casualty
  • Accident procedure
  • Bleeding and shock
  • CPR
  • Treatment of sprains and strains
  • Minor fractures and injury
  • Head, torso injury and treatment
  • Medical emergencies
  • Hypo- and hyperthermia
  • Bites and stings
  • Triage
  • Incident management
  • Practical scenarios indoors and outdoors
  • What do I do if I am remote?

Suitable for; ML, SPA, BCU, RYA, BOF, MIA, MIC, school journey leaders, MIDAS drivers, Duke of Edinburgh leaders, countryside rangers and ecologists. Course participants will receive a certificate valid for 3 years.

Sports First Aid

1 or 2 day course, £75 or £130 per person

This 1 or 2 day course is about developing first aid skills and knowledge, especially relevant to the sports situation, designed for arena, individual, team, disability, adventure and aquatic sports.

The course is HSE approved and QCA accredited, and courses found on the qualification credit framework could be eligible for central funding.

As well as the essential first aid covered by most first aid qualifications this course also includes:

  • Using sport specific first aid kit
  • Cease to play decisions
  • Recognition of concussion head, neck, spine impact injuries and treatment
  • Managing specialist sport kit e.g. helmets, gum shields etc.
  • Soft tissue injury when to and not to use ice
  • Sports specific practical scenario training
  • Incident management
  • ABCDE systems first aid