COURSE DETAILS

Course Details

Course Aims

• To provide competent manual handling trainers / advisers for providers of ambulance services.
• To enable providers of ambulance services to comply with best practice in manual handling as at 2006.
• To reduce risk of injury to staff and patients.
• To avoid prosecution and litigation.

This manual handling course has been designed with the core aim of creating a more confident and more motivated, professionally qualified manual handling trainer for Ambulance Services.

Course Introduction

This manual handling course has been designed to ensure each member of your training team is delivering up to date moving and handling training and risk assessment so that, risks are reduced, to both employees and patients, mitigating your risk to claims and litigation.

The course centres on improving patient 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.

This course stimulates an ideal climate for change to attitudes, practices and motivation which is fast becoming essential to improving trainer performance in the work place.

Participants discover new ways to inspire their trainees to move and handle patients in a manner that requires far less physical effort, affords greater dignity and hugely improves confidence in both emergency and non emergency environments.

This programme was originally designed and has been subsequently developed with the input of ambulance staff from many ambulance trusts. Wherever possible it mirrors current best practice with other health care professionals and the UK fire and rescue services.

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 “Moving People” training resource pack including:

• How the law in respect to manual handling applies to the ambulance service
• 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 patients
• How to conduct and record a formal risk assessment as required by law
• How to safely move and handle patients with and without the use of specialist equipment

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course participants will:

• Act as advisers on up to date 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 patients and inanimate loads.
• Conduct “suitable and sufficient” manual handling risk assessments as required by law.
• Use the “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 EDEXCEL / BTEC Award is additional to the cost of the course as this is optional.

Special requirements of course participants:

Participants should have existing instructional skills.

Course Trainers:

Solutions trainers come from ambulance and nursing backgrounds. All current staff contributed to the design of the Moving People resource pack and have extensive experience in training “patient handling trainers” in the NHS. All are recognised by the Middlesex University and EDEXCEL as accredited manual handling trainers.