Moving & Handling Training for Healthcare & Care Staf
Practical people-handling training covering risk assessment, safe technique and equipment use built around the injuries moving and handling actually causes when it's done without proper training.
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Learn to draw blood safely and confidently on our CPD-accredited, 2-day phlebotomy training course at Medax’s Harrow training centre. Over two days you’ll cover the theory of venepuncture, infection control and patient care,then spend hands-on time practising on training arms and under supervised conditions with our tutors so you leave with a recognised certificate and the practical skill to back it up.
What Is Moving & Handling Training?
Moving and handling training teaches staff how to move, support or reposition people (and loads) safely, reducing the risk of musculoskeletal injury to both the person being moved and the member of staff doing the moving. In a healthcare or care setting this specifically means people-handling assisting someone to stand, transfer between bed and chair, reposition in bed, or use hoists and slings which carries different risks from moving inanimate objects and is treated as its own discipline.
Poor moving and handling practice is a leading cause of work-related back pain and musculoskeletal injury among healthcare and care staff, and it can also cause pain, bruising and loss of dignity for the person being moved. That’s the problem this training is designed to prevent.
The Legal Basis
Employers in the UK have duties under the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 (as amended) to avoid hazardous manual handling where reasonably practicable, and where it can’t be avoided, to assess the risk and take steps to reduce it including providing appropriate training. This sits alongside the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 and, where handling equipment such as hoists is used, the Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998, which govern safe use and inspection of that equipment.
Course Overview
This course combines the legal and risk-assessment theory with hands-on technique practice — because moving and handling is a physical skill that can’t be learned from a slide deck alone. Learners work through both inanimate load handling principles and person-handling techniques, including safe use of handling equipment such as slide sheets and hoists.
What the Course Covers
- Anatomy and mechanics of the spine, and how poor technique causes injury
- Employer and employee responsibilities under the Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992
- Principles of dynamic risk assessment before a moving and handling task
- Ergonomic principles for safer moving and handling
- Safe techniques for assisting a person to stand, sit, transfer and reposition
- Safe use of handling equipment — slide sheets, transfer boards, hoists and slings
- Recognising when a task requires two or more staff, or specialist equipment
- Promoting the individual’s independence and dignity during handling tasks
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, learners will be able to:
- Identify moving and handling risk factors and apply a dynamic risk assessment before carrying out a task
- Describe their responsibilities, and their employer’s, under relevant health and safety legislation
- Demonstrate safer moving and handling technique for common care tasks
- Use handling equipment correctly and understand when specialist equipment is required
- Recognise unsafe practice and know when to seek support rather than proceed alone
Who Is This Course For?
- Healthcare assistants, support workers and care staff in hospital, care home or domiciliary settings
- Nurses, nursing associates and student nurses
- Ambulance and patient transport staff
- Anyone in a care role whose job includes assisting people to move
- Staff needing initial (not refresher) moving and handling training, or a refresher
Course details:
- Phlebotomy training- 2 days- £199.99
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Online & Onsite
Day 1: Theory (Online)
Day 2: Practical Training (In Person) - Medax Training Centre, 166 College Rd, Harrow HA1 1BH
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I attended the OSCE training here and found it very helpful. The offline trainer was really knowledgeable and well explained the station clearly. I would definitely recommend MEDAX to anyone preparing for their OSCE.
I attended the OSCE training here and found it very helpful. The trainer was knowledgeable and well explained the stations clearly. The practice sessions and feedback helped me improve my clinical skills. I would definitely recommend MEDAX to anyone preparing for their OSCE.
We have been learned and gained most essential skills and competamcies with within five days of onsite OSCE adult training. One to to one attention with the amazing tutor is really assissted me to build my confidence to face the exam in the near future. Our team is also really nice and helped each other. Medax OSCE academy is doing a great job for the international nurses.
Offline training is really good and area is good with all equipment.
I enjoyed my onsite training so much and loved the way how Sita mam guide us. Thank you so much for your help and guidance Medax team.
The online and onsite training was so good and I enjoyed the training the teacher were so understanding and encouraging , if any queries the members will attend and solve it then and there. Prasanna sir is so nice and humble and helps with every step of being nurse. Thank you
