Introduction:
This comprehensive People Moving and Handling Train the Trainer course equips professionals with the knowledge, practical skills, and confidence required to deliver effective moving and handling training within their organisation.
The course combines trainer development, legislation, risk assessment, anatomy, practical handling techniques, and equipment use. Participants will learn how to design and deliver engaging sessions while ensuring safe, compliant, and person-centred moving and handling practices.
Day 1: Building Foundations
Course Introduction and Micro Teach
Delegates will introduce themselves and deliver a pre-planned 5-minute micro teach presentation on a people moving and handling subject of their choice.
Session Highlights:
Training Administration, Hints and Tips
- Training strategy and training packs
- Lesson structure and planning
- Aims and objectives
- Clinical competence
- Insurance requirements
Legislation, Regulations and Guidance
- UK legal system
- Civil and criminal law
- Health and Safety legislation
- Manual Handling Regulations
- Employer and employee responsibilities
- Hazards, risks, and risk assessments
- Balanced decision making
Handling Considerations and Planning
- Definitions and key principles
- Person-centred approaches
- Maintaining personal identity
- Control, communication, and consent
- Factors affecting clients
- Promoting mobility
- Dynamic risk assessment using ELITE
- Assessments and care planning
Basic Falls Management
- Definitions and risk factors
- Deconditioning
- Delirium versus dementia
- Preventing and managing falls
- Falls assistance and lifting devices
- Post-fall care
Anatomy, Mechanics and Human Movement
- Role of the spine
- Types of injuries
- Human movement and biomechanics
- Lifting techniques
- Pushing and pulling
- Tissue viability and pressure ulcers
Day 2: Advanced Techniques and Practical Applications
Micro Teach and Practical Training
Delegates will complete further micro teaching sessions and develop practical confidence in delivering moving and handling training.
Session Highlights:
Controversial Techniques
- Definition and types of controversial techniques
Ergonomics and Equipment Core Skills
Delegates will practise safe moving and handling techniques, including:
- Moving residents in chairs
- Sitting to standing transfers
- Assisted walking
- Self-help from the floor
- Moving residents onto beds
- Bed mobility techniques
- Wheelchair use
- Transfer belts and turntables
- Transfer boards
- Slide sheet techniques
- Hoisting procedures
- Falls equipment
Hoisting and Equipment Safety
- Purpose of hoisting
- Hoisting incidents
- Essential hoist checks
- Moving residents from floor to bed
- Bed to wheelchair transfers
- Chair-to-chair transfers
- Rota-stand and Steady transfers
Assessment:
This course includes an open-book assessment and observation of practical activities.
Course Benefits
Delegates receive expert course content, trainer notes, practical resources, and certificates to support the delivery of moving and handling training within their organisation.
The course includes two fully editable PowerPoint presentations with copyright release, allowing trainers to adapt the materials for their own training needs.
By completing this course, organisations can develop competent internal trainers, improve safety standards, reduce risks to staff and service users, and support compliance with relevant legislation and guidance.
Trainer Experience and Qualifications
All trainers have extensive experience in people moving and handling training and hold relevant qualifications, including:
- Minimum 5 years health and safety training or professional experience
- IOSH, EDI, or HSG Manual Handling and People Handling Trainer Qualification
- PTLLS or equivalent teaching qualification
Quality Assurance
This Train the Trainer course is delivered by experienced accredited trainers and is designed in line with current legislation, national standards, and best practice guidance.
Course content is reviewed regularly to reflect changes in legislation and guidance, ensuring delegates receive up-to-date and effective training.
