CSTF Basic Life Support (BLS)

CSTF Basic Life Support (BLS) Half Day


Start Time is 1pm and finishes at 4.30pm

This face-to-face training (refresher) course covers both the practical and theory-based elements of Basic Life Support. You will learn how to perform chest compression and rescue breathing (CPR), how to operate an automated external defibrillator safely and how to place an unconscious breathing victim in the recovery position.

Course Pre-Requisite Requirements
Candidates will have needed to have attended a Full Day of Basic Life Support and attended refresher training on an annual basis.

Course Content
The role of the rescuer
Situational and environment assessment
How to act in an emergency
Cardio-pulmonary-resuscitation (CPR)
Dealing with an unconscious casualty
The conscious casualty
The recovery position
Dealing with a choking casualty
Assessment
Practical Assessment of Skills:
Scene Assessment
Calls for help
Demonstrates effective CPR and rescue breaths
Is able to demonstrate the recovery position
Completes all work stations


Learning Outcomes:
At the end of this course participants should be able to demonstrate:
How to conduct a scene assessment
How to conduct a primary survey
How to assess the collapsed victim
How to perform chest compression and rescue breathing (CPR)
How to operate an automated external defibrillator safely
How to place an unconscious breathing victim in the recovery position

Course meets the requirements of:
Skills for Health:
National Occupational Standards:
Dimenson: PROHSS1 (C) Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety
Dimension: HWB6 Assessment and treatment planning
Dimension: CHS36 Provide basic life support
KSF Framework:
Core Dimension Level 1 Health, Safety & Security - Assist in maintaining own and others’ health, safety and security.
Dimension: HWB6 Assessment and treatment planning
Dimension: Core 3 Health, safety and security
Dimension: HWB7 Interventions and treatments

Care Certificate:
12.1 Be able to provide basic life support

European and UK Resus Guidelines
This is a Mandatory and Statutory Training Requirement


This course will take approximately three hours to complete. This course is aligning to the UK Core Skills Training Framework.

CSTF Manual Handling & Moving of People & Inanimate Objects Half Day (Level 1 & 2)


Start Time 9am finishes at 1pm

This face-to-face (refresher) training course covers both the practical and theory-based elements of Manual Handling & Moving of People & Inanimate Objects. You will learn how to demonstrate safe handling techniques, how to use a patient hoist and the principles of human movement.

Course Pre-Requisite Requirements

Learners must have completed a Full Day Manual Handling of People Course in the last year. Course Content
• Spinal mechanics and function
• Importance of back care and posture, risk factors for back pain
• Current relevant legislation and professional guidelines where relevant
• Safe management of inanimate loads
• Handling strategies for clients with impaired mobility
• Dealing with unpredictable occurrences
• Use of equipment
• Assessment of risks addressing: - tasks (including unexpected) - the limits of individuals capability (their own and that of others) - loads (both inanimate and human) - environment and the importance of good housekeeping
• Importance of ergonomic approach
• Principles of normal human movement and promotion of client independence
• Problem solving


Practical Assessment of Skills:
• Moving client forward in a chair
• Moving client back in a chair
• Sitting to standing from chair
• Sitting to standing from edge of bed
• Standing to sitting on chair
• Assisted walking
• The falling patient
• Turning in bed
• Fitting and removing flat slide sheets
• Fitting and removing tubular sheets
• Sliding the supine client up/down the bed
• Sliding the seated client up/down bed
• Standing transfer bed to chair/chair to bed
• Seated transfer from bed to chair/ chair to bed
• Transfer from chair to chair/commode
• Fitting a sling with client in bed
• Fitting sling in bed using slide sheets
• Fitting a sling with client in chair
• Fitting sling in chair with slide sheets
• Hoisting from bed to chair Hoisting from chair to bed
• Hoisting client from floor
• Use of stand-aid

Learning Outcomes

Define the term ‘Manual Handling’.
To raise awareness of the causative factors and types of musculoskeletal injuries (particularly back injuries), and how such an injury can affect the individual, the employer and society.
To provide basic information relating to prevention of musculoskeletal injuries.
To provide an awareness of current Health and Safety legislation which relates to manual handling and its implementation in the workplace.
To introduce the subject of ergonomics and risk assessment.
The importance of good communication in Safer Handling
Discuss unsafe practices and identify rationale behind these
To Demonstrate Safe Handling Techniques

Course meets the requirements of:
• National Occupational Standards:
• Dimension: SS13 Move and transport patients within the work area
• Dimenson: PROHSS1 (C) Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety
• KSF Framework:
• Dimension: EF3 Transport and Logistics
• Core Dimension Level 1 Health, Safety & Security - Assist in maintaining own and others’ health, safety and security.


This course will take approximately four hours to complete. The course is aligning to the UK Core Skills Training Framework.

PMVA 1 Day Refresher - tutors are GSA grade A tutors.PMVA (Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression) is an essential update when working within any mental health environment. The PMVA refresher course takes one full day to complete, and includes topics such as understanding the stages of the assault cycle, de-escalation strategies and recognising the importance of implementation of early intervention strategies.

Train Healthcare ensures all are tutors are GSA grade A tutors.

Start time 9am Finish 5pm

Course Pre-Requisite Requirements
All Candidates are required to complete a Health Declaration on the day of the course of which will be assessed by the course tutor.
Due to the physical nature of this course we cannot accept any pregnant candidates on the course, post-natal learners should seek advice from their GP prior to attendance.
This course is suitable to learners of varying fitness levels.
Learners have to adhere to the training safety requirements and Dress Code for the course.
Course Safety and Dress Code: PMVA and Breakaway courses includes the instruction of practical physical intervention skills. Candidates will be required on the day of the course to complete a health declaration prior to course commencement. To ensure candidate safety and comfort during instruction it is essential that candidates are suitably attired, failure to do so may mean refusal to participate on the course; therefore please see the following guidance notes:
No hard soled shoes, boots, hiking boots or steel toe-capped footwear should be worn. Ideally it is recommended that trainers are worn.
No Jeans to be worn, ideally it is recommended that tracksuit bottoms are worn.
No items of clothing should be worn with studs, decorative zips or embellishments such as beads, sequins for example.
No belts with buckles are to be worn.


Course Content:

• Influences on PMVA.
• Current Guidance and Legalisation.
• What is self-defence?
• Hierarchy of Responses.
• De-escalation.
• Principles of observation & communication.
• Legal & Ethical Issues.
• Risks in Restraint.
• Blood born infections.
• Substance misuse associated behaviours.
• Positional Asphyxiation.
• Excited Delirium.
• Compartment Syndrome.
• Sickle cell anaemia.
• Best Practice Guidance.
• Health & Safety Act.
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• The Mental Health Act 1983 (Amended 2007).
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
• Human Rights Act 1998.
• What is torture?
• What is inhumane treatment?
• What is SIRI?
• What is Post Incident Review?
• Review Stages.
• Post Incident Support.
• Staff Perceptives.
• Impact of Violence and Aggression.
• Trauma in Mental Healthcare.
• Mental Health First Aid Model.
• Consequences of non-compliance.



Case Studies
• Current Issues related to PMVA in the Media.
• Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Identify possible causes of violence and aggression in mental healthcare settings.
• Recognise the importance of implementation of early intervention strategies in reducing the occurrence of violence and aggression.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and patients.
• Identify legal and ethical implications of utilising physical intervention strategies.
• Demonstrate the ability to select and utilise appropriate physical and non-physical strategies to manage an aggressive individual.
• Understand the need to continually assess and evaluate the levels of risk posed by difficult and challenging people.
• Demonstrate how to escape safely from a variety of grabs and holds.
• Candidates will be able to define the role of NHS Protect, LSMS, SMD?
• Be able to give explanations for aggression – particularly in MH/LD settings.
• Know the stages of the assault cycle, and what each stage means.
• Be able to identify signs of escalation of aggression.
• Understand Strategies to de-escalate.
• Understand the legal issues around reasonable force in line with MHA, MCA and best practice guidance.
• The importance of conducting post incident reviews.
• The negative impact to staff and organisations of non-compliance to the completion of post incident review.
• The essential elements of conducting a good post incident review.
• How staff and patients can be psychologically affected by incidents.
• Good and bad practice in post incident review.


Assessment:
• Group Participation – Physical and Theoretical.
• Scenario Based Candidate Assessment.
• Teamwork Physical Intervention Skills:
• Safety Stance.
• Fighting Arc.
• Breakaways.
• Standing Relocation holds:
• Non-contact Guiding.
• Upper limb wrap.
• Figure of Four.
• Thumb in Palm.
• Finger & Thumb.
• Seated De-escalation.
• Rationale.
• Purpose.
• Environment.
• Approach.
• Trouble Drills.
• Re-location to the Floor Supine.
• Relocation to the floor and back to standing.
• Upper rest positions and reinforced holds.
• Securing the legs.
• Lost Holds.
• De-Escalation.
• Relocation to the floor prone:
• Principles and Current guidance relating to prone restraint.
• Relocation to the floor and back to standing.
• Lower rest positions and reinforced holds.
• Securing the legs.
• Lost Holds.
• De-Escalation.
• Stop and Rest.
• Modified Recovery.
• Turning Patients:
• Prone to Supine.
• Supine to Prone.
• Doorways.
• Stairs.
• Relief Options:
• Floor and Standing.
• Bed Option – Exiting via the head.
• Floor Option – Exiting via the head.
• Exiting from the side.
• Kneeling Option.

Course meets the requirements of:
• Skills for Health:
• FMH5 Minimise the risks to an individual and staff during clinical interventions and violent and aggressive episodes.
• FMH3 Observe an individual who presents a significant imminent risk to themselves or others.
• CFAPMVW3 Protect yourself and others from the risk of violence at work.
• National Occupational Standards:
• Dimension: PROHSS1 (C) Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety.
• Dimension: HWB6 Assessment and treatment planning.
• KSF Framework:
• Core Dimension Level 1 Health, Safety & Security - Assist in maintaining own and others’ health, safety and security.
• Dimension: HWB6 Assessment and treatment planning
• Dimension: Core 3 Health, safety and security
• Dimension: HWB7 Interventions and treatments
• Dimension:HWB3 Protection of health and wellbeing
• Care Certificate:
• Maintain the privacy and dignity of the individual(s) in your care.
• Understand legal frameworks, policy and guidelines relating to mental health, conditions, dementia and learning disabilities.
• Understand their own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety in the work setting.
• Understand Risk Assessment
• Work securely
• We teach in accordance to the NICE Guidance No.25, RCN 2014 Guidance – Minimising Physical Interventions and Positive & Proactive Care Guidance 2014.
• As such we teach supine first and prone as a second option.

PMVA 3 Day Course - tutors are GSA grade A tutors.PMVA (Prevention Management of Violence and Aggression) is an essential requirement when working within any mental health environment. The PMVA course takes 3 full days to complete and covers topics such as positional asphyxiation, the risks associated with restraint and restraint related deaths.

Train Healthcare ensures that our PMVA tutors are GSA grade A tutors.

Start time 9am Finish 5pm each day
Course Pre-Requisite Requirements

All Candidates are required to complete a Health Declaration on the day of the course of which will be assessed by the course tutor.
Due to the physical nature of this course we cannot accept any pregnant candidates on the course, post-natal learners should seek advice from their GP prior to attendance.
This course is suitable to learners of varying fitness levels.
Learners have to adhere to the training safety requirements and Dress Code for the course.
Course Safety and Dress Code: PMVA and Breakaway courses includes the instruction of practical physical intervention skills. Candidates will be required on the day of the course to complete a health declaration prior to course commencement. To ensure candidate safety and comfort during instruction it is essential that candidates are suitably attired, failure to do so may mean refusal to participate on the course; therefore please see the following guidance notes:
No hard soled shoes, boots, hiking boots or steel toe-capped footwear should be worn. Ideally it is recommended that trainers are worn.
No Jeans to be worn, ideally it is recommended that tracksuit bottoms are worn.
No items of clothing should be worn with studs, decorative zips or embellishments such as beads, sequins for example.
No belts with buckles are to be worn.


Course Content:

• Influences on PMVA.
• Current Guidance and Legalisation.
• What is self-defence?
• Hierarchy of Responses.
• De-escalation.
• Principles of observation & communication.
• Legal & Ethical Issues.
• Risks in Restraint.
• Blood born infections.
• Substance misuse associated behaviours.
• Positional Asphyxiation.
• Excited Delirium.
• Compartment Syndrome.
• Sickle cell anaemia.
• Best Practice Guidance.
• Health & Safety Act.
• The Mental Capacity Act 2005.
• The Mental Health Act 1983 (Amended 2007).
• Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards.
• Human Rights Act 1998.
• What is torture?
• What is inhumane treatment?
• What is SIRI?
• What is Post Incident Review?
• Review Stages.
• Post Incident Support.
• Staff Perceptives.
• Impact of Violence and Aggression.
• Trauma in Mental Healthcare.
• Mental Health First Aid Model.
• Consequences of non-compliance.



Case Studies
• Current Issues related to PMVA in the Media.
• Learning Outcomes: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Identify possible causes of violence and aggression in mental healthcare settings.
• Recognise the importance of implementation of early intervention strategies in reducing the occurrence of violence and aggression.
• Demonstrate the ability to communicate effectively with colleagues and patients.
• Identify legal and ethical implications of utilising physical intervention strategies.
• Demonstrate the ability to select and utilise appropriate physical and non-physical strategies to manage an aggressive individual.
• Understand the need to continually assess and evaluate the levels of risk posed by difficult and challenging people.
• Demonstrate how to escape safely from a variety of grabs and holds.
• Candidates will be able to define the role of NHS Protect, LSMS, SMD?
• Be able to give explanations for aggression – particularly in MH/LD settings.
• Know the stages of the assault cycle, and what each stage means.
• Be able to identify signs of escalation of aggression.
• Understand Strategies to de-escalate.
• Understand the legal issues around reasonable force in line with MHA, MCA and best practice guidance.
• The importance of conducting post incident reviews.
• The negative impact to staff and organisations of non-compliance to the completion of post incident review.
• The essential elements of conducting a good post incident review.
• How staff and patients can be psychologically affected by incidents.
• Good and bad practice in post incident review.


Assessment:
• Group Participation – Physical and Theoretical.
• Scenario Based Candidate Assessment.
• Teamwork Physical Intervention Skills:
• Safety Stance.
• Fighting Arc.
• Breakaways.
• Standing Relocation holds:
• Non-contact Guiding.
• Upper limb wrap.
• Figure of Four.
• Thumb in Palm.
• Finger & Thumb.
• Seated De-escalation.
• Rationale.
• Purpose.
• Environment.
• Approach.
• Trouble Drills.
• Re-location to the Floor Supine.
• Relocation to the floor and back to standing.
• Upper rest positions and reinforced holds.
• Securing the legs.
• Lost Holds.
• De-Escalation.
• Relocation to the floor prone:
• Principles and Current guidance relating to prone restraint.
• Relocation to the floor and back to standing.
• Lower rest positions and reinforced holds.
• Securing the legs.
• Lost Holds.
• De-Escalation.
• Stop and Rest.
• Modified Recovery.
• Turning Patients:
• Prone to Supine.
• Supine to Prone.
• Doorways.
• Stairs.
• Relief Options:
• Floor and Standing.
• Bed Option – Exiting via the head.
• Floor Option – Exiting via the head.
• Exiting from the side.
• Kneeling Option.

Course meets the requirements of:
Skills for Health:
FMH5 Minimise the risks to an individual and staff during clinical interventions and violent and aggressive episodes.
FMH3 Observe an individual who presents a significant imminent risk to themselves or others.
CFAPMVW3 Protect yourself and others from the risk of violence at work.
National Occupational Standards:
Dimension: PROHSS1 (C) Make sure your own actions reduce risks to health and safety.
Dimension: HWB6 Assessment and treatment planning.
KSF Framework:
Core Dimension Level 1 Health, Safety & Security - Assist in maintaining own and others’ health, safety and security.
Dimension: HWB6 Assessment and treatment planning
Dimension: Core 3 Health, safety and security
Dimension: HWB7 Interventions and treatments
Dimension:HWB3 Protection of health and wellbeing
Care Certificate:
Maintain the privacy and dignity of the individual(s) in your care.
Understand legal frameworks, policy and guidelines relating to mental health, conditions, dementia and learning disabilities.
Understand their own responsibilities, and the responsibilities of others, relating to health and safety in the work setting.
Understand Risk Assessment
Work securely
• We teach in accordance to the NICE Guidance No.25, RCN 2014 Guidance – Minimising Physical Interventions and Positive & Proactive Care Guidance 2014.
• As such we teach supine first and prone as a second option.