This course is specifically designed to work alongside any accredited, practical moving and handling training. Throughout this course, you will learn everything you need to be able to equip yourself with the relevant knowledge and skills to ensure best practices are achieved as well as ensuring the safety of yourself, colleagues, service users and others.
Learning Outcomes:
- Regulations and Legislations– You will learn the relevant regulations and legislations which provide the guidelines of how to work in a safe environment to protect yourself, colleagues, service users and others when moving and handling service users and objects.
- The spine- Learn about the spine, what it is made up of and how that helps to protect it from accidents and injuries.
- Common Causes of Back Pain- This section talks about the most common causes of back pain from daily activities to work environments.
- Preventing Back Pain- It’s important to understand how to prevent back pain, this section will cover many ways of doing this as well as explaining why it is important.
- Risk assessments- In this section it will cover how to do a risk assessment and why there are important. It will also cover the steps to take before moving and handling objects.
- Infection Control- This section identifies the steps you can take for infection control and why it is a vital part of the care industry.
- Good Practice- Learn the different types of good practices you must undertake in order to give sage high- quality care.
- Pieces of Equipment- There are various pieces of equipment to help service users be as independent as possible, this section lists most of the equipments you may come across, and when you should and shouldn’t use them.
- Supporting Individuals with Stairs- When supporting a service user using the stairs it’s important to know what you should and shouldn’t do, this section will help to identify this.
- Techniques No Longer to be Used- The techniques have changed through the years in health and social care when moving and positioning service users, this section identifies the techniques no longer used and why.
