COURSE DETAILS

Course Details

Course Aims

• To ensure Moving & Handling People trainers are updated on any changes to best practice.
• To enable participants to share experiences since previously trained.
• To identify any organisational or personal issues that have promoted or hindered the strategy.
• To enable participants to reinforce any skills little used.

This manual handling course has been designed with the core aim of creating a confident, motivated, professionally qualified manual handling instructor.

Course Introduction

This manual handling course, totally updated in August 2006 has been designed to ensure you have a team member who can deliver up to date moving and handling training and risk assessment so that, risks are reduced, to both employees and pupils, mitigating your risk to claims and litigation.

The course centres on improving pupil handling by combining the use of criterion based risk assessment with current best practice handling techniques and of new handling aids designed to reduce risk. The content was totally revised in June 2006 in line with best practice as defined in the Guide to Handling People 5^th edition and now includes sections on handling both heavy and young pupils and dealing with emergencies. Major input was received from specialists in a number of special schools and SCOPE so that the content meets the needs of this specific area.

This course stimulates an ideal climate for change to attitudes, practices and motivation in the work place.

Participants discover ways to inspire their trainees to move and handle pupils in a manner that requires far less physical effort, affords greater dignity and hugely improves confidence in a range of settings.

What delegates will learn

• Welcome and establishments of objectives for the day.
• Review of problems or issues raised since trained.
• Review of risk assessment practice.
• Practical reinforcement of any faded skills.
• Update on any changes in best practice.
• Problem solving - case studies from participants.
• Micro teach - participants to reinforce delivery skills.
• Evaluation and close.

Course Objectives:

Participants will be updated on how to:

• Demonstrate that basic handling skills and knowledge have been maintained
• Demonstrate new handling techniques since previously trained
• Use knowledge and skills to problem solve in respect of unusual handling situations

Assessment process

This will be overall and continuous, against the course objectives.

Certification / Accreditation:

Solutions Certificate

Special requirements of course participants:

They should be free of injury or any medical condition that may place them at risk of injury.

Course Trainers:

Solutions trainers come from NHS professions and contributed to the design of the new People Moving People resource pack. They have extensive experience in training “people handling trainers” in a wide range of settings and have acted as advisers to special education sectors since 1994. All are recognised by the Middlesex University and EDEXCEL as accredited manual handling trainers.