Paediatric First Aid and Child Care

Paediatric First Aid and Child Care course is for everybody who is responsible for the welfare of children. It examines how you should adapt and employ basic First Aid techniques for a child or baby. The course looks at every medical situation from treating minor cuts and grazes, to performing CPR on an unresponsive infant.

Treating a casualty with First Aid is a hard but rewarding experience. Being able to help a child in distress or pain is an especially admirable talent and one that all parents or child-minders should ideally know.

By the end of the course, you’ll know how to interact with a young casualty, how to keep them calm, and when to call an emergency. It should prove to hold invaluable information for keeping children and babies safe from illness, and potentially life-threatening conditions.

• Accredited by CPD
• Complies with The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981
• Instant e-certificate and hard copy dispatch by next working day
• Fully online, interactive course with Professional voice-over
• Developed by qualified first aid professionals
• Self paced learning and laptop, tablet, smartphone friendly
• 24/7 Learning Assistance
• Discounts on bulk purchases

Who should take the course

This comprehensive course is ideal for individuals associated with the first aid sectors such as:

Childminders

Nursery and pre-school workers

Leisure facility staff

Teachers

Anyone who wishes to be able to provide First Aid for all possible casualties

Certification

Once you’ve successfully completed your course, you will immediately be sent a digital certificate. Also, you can have your printed certificate delivered by post (shipping cost £3.99). All of our courses are fully accredited, providing you with up-to-date skills and knowledge and helping you to become more competent and effective in your chosen field. Our certifications have no expiry dates, although we do recommend that you renew them every 12 months.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course learners will be able to demonstrate that they can:

Recognise the fundamental requirements of childcare and how First Aid can benefit that

Provide a survey and risk assessment of an incident

Perform resuscitation on a child or baby

Recognise and treat minor ailments in children

Deal with emergency situations and help with major ailments in children

Recognise when Emergency Services need to be contacted

Assessment

At the end of the course, there will be an online assessment, which you will need to pass to complete the course. Answers are marked instantly and automatically, allowing you to know straight away whether you have passed. If you haven’t, there’s no limit on the number of times you can take the final exam. All this is included in the one-time fee you paid for the course itself.