COURSE DETAILS

Course Details

Course Aims

• To provide competent manual handling instructors for providers of residential care for the elderly.
• To enable providers of services to comply with best practice in manual handling as at 2006.
• To reduce risk of injury to staff and clients.
• To avoid prosecution and litigation.

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 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 service users, mitigating your risk to claims and litigation.

The course centres on improving client 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 heavy people, and handling in emergencies.

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 clients in a manner that requires far less physical effort, affords greater dignity and hugely improves confidence in a range of settings.

This programme has been running since 1994 and has been used by thousands of people across the UK.

Optional additional modules are available to this course – please ask for more details

What delegates will learn

How to deliver the theoretical and specified practical objectives contained in modules 1-8 of the “People Moving People” training resource pack including:

• How the law in respect to manual handling applies to Nursing Homes
• Gain a better understanding of spinal mechanics
• How to look after your back
• How to safely move and handle inanimate loads
• How to conduct a personal or dynamic risk assessment in order to avoid , reduce or eliminate risks
• How to communicate and gain cooperation with clients
• How to conduct and record a formal risk assessment as required by law
• How to safely move and handle clients with and without the use of specialist equipment
• How adults learn
• How to instruct small groups effectively

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course participants will:

• Act as advisers on up to date basic back care and manual handling issues in the workplace.
• Assess the need for and provide up to date moving and handling solutions when moving both clients and inanimate loads.
• Conduct “suitable and sufficient” manual handling risk assessments as required by law.
• Use the “People Moving People” resource pack correctly and safely

Assessment process

This will be overall and continuous, against the course objectives and completion of a multiple choice paper.

Certification / Accreditation:

On successful completion of this programme participants will receive a Solutions certificate of competence and be eligible to apply for the EDEXCEL / BTEC Advanced Certificate in Manual Handling.
Assessment criteria and registration fee available on request.
Please note that the cost for the BTEC Award is additional to the cost of the course as this is optional.

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 and have extensive experience in training “people handling trainers” in a wide range of settings. All are recognised by the Middlesex University and EDEXCEL as accredited manual handling trainers.