Do you want to become outdoor first aid trained?
Date: 17-18 February
Location: Milton Keynes
Cost: £150 pp
Certification: Level 3 Outdoor First Aid
Prior learning requited: None
Whether it is for your Mountain Leader, Hill Leader qualification or to gain more experience in the outdoors.
This First Aid Training is for people venturing outside either for work or pleasure, and introduces the techniques, skills and confidence that will be needed to deal with an incident when venturing outside where assistance can be protracted. This qualification indicates an individual can undertake the role of Outdoor First Aider in more rural and remote areas.
Qualification includes 16-hour outdoor first aid, forest school first aid and paediatric first aid. The course is also NGB compliant for those working towards outdoor qualifications, and also covers workplace first aid.
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Description: This course introduces the techniques, skills and confidence that will be needed to deal with an incident when venturing outside in the British Isles where assistance is more than a few minutes away. This qualification indicates an individual can undertake the role of Outdoor First Aider in more rural and remote areas.
The need for an Outdoor First Aider might have been identified by a Workplace First Aid Needs Assessment and can be relied upon by employers to satisfy the due diligence requirements of the HSE for first aid training providers. Successful completion of the course will result in knowledge and skills that have been identified by the Institute for Outdoor Learning First Aid Training Framework for the safe, effective and prompt treatment of injuries and illness, with the management of incidents in the outdoors.
The course will be delivered in a realistic outdoor context and will satisfy the first aid requirements for instructors with most of the outdoor industry National Governing Bodies.
This course also covers and can be additionally certificated for Emergency First Aid at Work and Forestry First Aid (+F).
COURSE STRUCTURE
Day 1
- 9am – Introductions and course layout
- 10am – Theory and learning
- 12pm – Demonstrations
- 1pm – Lunch break
- 2pm – Practical exercises
- 5pm – Finish
Day 2
- 9am – Theory and learning
- 10pm – Practical exercises outside
- 1pm – Lunch break
- 2pm – Assessment
- 5pm – Finish
