Practical First Aid
First Aid for Special Educational Needs (SEN) for Staff & Pupils
Time: You Choose
Certificates available
Taught by Experts
- Parents & Grandparents
- Children & Teenagers
- Nannies & Au Pairs who do not need to be Ofsted registered – if you need Ofsted registration please visit our PAEDIATRIC COURSE page.
- Teachers & school staff
- Staff from Charities & Local Authorities
- Staff working with Children & in Youth organisations
- Home Carers, Care Homes & Foster Carers
- Sports Clubs & Organisations
- Sports professionals needing a basic First Aid qualification
- Heath professionals
Every course is tailored to the needs of those attending – please let us know if there are particular areas you need us to cover.
By the end of the course you will have learnt:
- Assess and treat an unconscious casualty
- How to put and adult, baby or child into the Recovery Position
- How to perform CPR on an adult, child and baby
- How to help someone suffering a Heart Attack
- How and when to use a defibrillator (AED)
- How to help someone choking, drowning, or suffering from a head injury
- How to treat someone bleeding or suffering from burns
- How to recognise and treat seizures and febrile convulsions
- Recognise the signs and symptoms of septicaemia and meningitis
- Understand the priorities in an emergency and when to call an ambulance
- Action planning in an emergency
- Treatment of an unconscious breathing casualty (Recovery Position)
- Resuscitation in adults, babies and children (CPR)
- Choking & Drowning
- What to put into your First aid kit
- Bleeding – minor and major
- Burns
- Head injuries – concussion & compression
- Seizures & Febrile convulsions
- Meningitis
3 hours.
Our experienced trainers will use questions and scenarios to assess your understanding and skills throughout the course.
Your Emergency First Aid certificate will be awarded on the day, and is valid for 3 years.
Summary:
First Aid for Life is an Award Winning fully regulated First Aid Training provider, our trainers are highly experienced medical and emergency services professionals who will tailor the training to your needs.
We have worked with numerous Schools devising training to suit the individual needs of staff and pupils. We are more than happy to create totally bespoke training to ensure that people with a wide variety of physical and sensory impairments are able to learn these vital skills.
We have run numerous courses for Garratt Park School, The Jewish Deaf Association, Merton Council, Wandsworth Council, St John’s Deaf Community Centre and many others and they have all been extremely impressed and grateful with the calibre of our training.