Forest School First Aid & Paediatric Course
Our Forest School First Aid course is an Ofqual regulated qualification designed for leaders and assistants working in a forest school setting. The course content is delivered primarily outdoors and recreates emergency scenarios to test your knowledge of responding to an incident where help is not immediately available. This course meets the requirements of OFSTED for practitioners of forest schools.
This is a course that will qualify the successful learner with both Forest Schools First Aid and Paediatric First Aid qualification for 3 years.
This qualification develops the learnerās knowledge, understanding and skills in delivering first aid in a forest school environment. This qualification meets employers and relevant bodies first aid requirements for forest school practitioners. The qualification supports a role in a workplace.
The qualification meets the Outdoor First Aid requirements set by the Institute for Outdoor Learning. The course is combined with the Paediatric First Aid qualification which meets the requirements of Ofsted Early Years and Childcare Register requirements. Our 16-hour outdoor paediatric first aid training is aimed at those working with children in an outdoor setting or who are working towards their forest school leader award and includes theĀ Award in Paediatric First Aid.
Forest School First Aid Course content
This practical first aid training course is designed to improve skills and knowledge for all outdoor professionals. We use a mixture of indoor and outdoor learning to simulate injuries and accidents found in a variety of outdoor settings whether it be outdoor sports, mountain leading, hill walking or forestry working to name a few.
This first aid course is continually assessed with constructive feedback throughout. As first aid is a practical subject, the learner will be required to participate in practical hands-on training. The assessment process requires each learner to demonstrate skills with a training casualty.
- Be able to assess an emergency in a forest school setting and prioritise what action to take.
- Apply incident management and casualty assessment.
- Provide first aid to an unresponsive casualty.
- Emergency resuscitation (including use of AEDās) Adult and child.
- Adjustments for CPR (child, drowning, remote)
- Recognise and provide first aid to a casualty who is choking.
- Infant, Child & Adult Resuscitation procedures.
- Choking ā Infant, Child and Adult.
- Safe Airway Positions ā Infant, Child, Adult.
- Bleeding ā internal/external, major/minor.
- Shock ā hypovolemic and anaphylactic.
- Hypothermia and heat injuries.
- Febrile convulsions.
- Treating Damage ā suspected fractures, head, neck and back injuries.
- Eye injuries and foreign bodies in eyes, ears and noses.
- Bites and stings.
- Burns and scalds.
- Electric shock.
- Common illness ā epilepsy, asthma, diabetes.
- epi pen training
Forest School first aid courseās locations and dates.
Outdoor First Aid Ā£180 per person
Forest Schools First Aid Ā£195 per person
Discounts for early bookings:
6+ weeks get 15% offĀ
Please note that discounts are only available on immediate payments. Invoiced bookings will not be discounted.
Please do read the Terms & Conditions before booking.
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