Course Details

Course Aims

• To equip participants with the skills to provide appropriate support to vulnerable adults and children whilst being transported.
• To ensure passengers are treated in a dignified manner
• To reduce risk of injury to staff and passengers.
• To avoid prosecution and litigation.

This course has been designed with the core aim of creating a more confident and more motivated, professionally qualified driver / escort.

Course Introduction

This course has been designed to ensure each member of your transport team is delivering up to date care and management so that, risks are reduced, to both employees and passengers.

The course centres on equipping staff with the knowledge and skills to improve both safety, and comfort during transportation. This is achieved by empowering staff to understand the causes and effects of disabilities, learning how to move and handle passengers safely and provide first aid skills to deal with foreseeable emergencies.

This course stimulates an ideal climate to develop positive attitudes, practices and motivation which is essential to improving staff confidence and performance in this sometimes neglected work area.

This programme was originally designed whilst Solutions ran a local authority transport service between 1998 and 2000 and has been developed since with the input of many transport providers and the ambulance service. It is uniquely able to offer an EDEXCEL / BTEC accredited short course award for successful candidates.

Extended skills modules are available to this topic – please ask for more details

What delegates will learn

• How to apply emergency first aid
• How the law applies to moving & handling clients
• How your spine works
• How to keep your back healthy
• How to conduct a personal / dynamic risk assessment
• How to communicate with clients
• How to ensure clients are moved & handled in a safe & dignified manner

Course Objectives:

At the end of the course participants will be able to:

• Understand the common causes and effects of client’s disabilities and how to respond accordingly to ensure their needs are met with dignity
• Demonstrate (under simulated conditions) the application of personal risk assessment techniques to a range of client handling techniques to the standards described in the NHS ambulance service basic training manual updated August 2003
• Demonstrate (under simulated conditions) the application of emergency first aid techniques to standards established by the European Resuscitation Council at 2005

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 short course award “Transporting People with Special Needs”.
Assessment criteria and registration fee available on request.
Please note that the cost for this BTEC Award is additional to the cost of the course as it 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 ambulance, nursing and transport backgrounds and are qualified as a Registered General Nurse or as NHS ambulance paramedic. The team have all been involved in the management of either local authority or ambulance service transport, have adult teaching/ training qualifications and are qualified to deliver this EDEXCEL/BTEC accredited foundation course and the extended skills programmes.