Moving People Safely

Description

• 3 - 4 hour course
• A course for (unpaid) carers and volunteers who care for people with mobility problems 
• Gives learners the skills to protect their own backs

Course Contents:

• The importance of safe manual handling
• Basic Risk Assessments
• Types of equipment designed to aid moving people safely 
• Use of a wheelchair
• Safely moving people in and out of their wheelchair
• Safely moving people in and out of a car
• Use of banana boards and similar objects
• Helping people get up out of their chairs
• Helping people to walk by themselves, using sticks or zimmer frames where required

Benefits of this course:

• This is a very practical course
• 36% of carers have injuries such as back pain, caused by their caring responsibilities 
• This course is there to help carers take care of themselves by showing them, and giving time to practice, techniques to aid the person they care for move by themselves where possible

CPD Accredited

This course is not an Ofqual regulated qualification, and has no accreditation attached.

Candidates will, however, receive a certificate of attendance, as seen to the left.