Emergency First Aid at Work For Irish Audiences

This Moving and Handling People eLearning course is aimed at people working in health and social care who have people in their care that have mobility issues. The course outlines the dangers and legislation that applies to moving and handling people as well as showing a range of techniques and equipment that can be used. The course also highlights the importance of proper risk assessments and care plans.

A standardised, endorsed, national core curriculum is a key means to deliver cost-effective training with minimised retraining as people move between organisations.

This course aims to help prevent injury to healthcare staff. In health and social care, work often involves manual handling, so knowing how to do it safely is very important for staff both at work and at home.
To achieve the Level 2 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work (QCF), learners must achieve 1 credit from the single mandatory unit. This qualification is not graded successful learners achieve a pass.

Module 1: Introduction to manual handling
Module 2: Your back & you
Module 3: Your back & your posture
Module 4: Risk assessment
Module 5: Principles of safer manual handling.

• How to promote compliance with relevant regulations and guidelines – both national and local
• How to assess and minimise workplace risks
• Understanding of how to reduce negligence, accidents and incidents to patients, service users, and visitors.

Having training in moving and handling people can ensure that you do not injure yourself or someone in your care.

Online training is flexible, efficient and cost effective meaning the candidate can progress through the modules at their own pace and in their own time, so they can fit the training in around their work and personal life.

There are a lot of courses in our health and social care suite that would make great follow ups to this course and if you are in the adult social care sector then they would all provide valuable additions to your knowledge.

Specific topics that compliment this directly are Stroke Awareness and Dementia Awareness.

This course was originally commissioned by the Department of Health (DH) and endorsed by the National Back Exchange (NBE).