Moving & Handling in Childcare

This three hour course is designed specifically for those working in professional childcare. It focuses on the importance of back care and the implications of ignoring the guidance. This course will give participants the knowledge to prevent back and other injuries at work. Childcare professionals are at a much higher risk than the average person when it comes to suffering from back injuries/pain in the work place due to the types of loads involved.

Who Should Attend This Course:

Anyone involved in lifting children

A highly experienced and qualified Manual Handling instructor will demonstrate and equip learners with the skills and knowledge necessary to carry out all Manual Handling tasks in a safe and secure manner with an emphasis on injury prevention and encouraging safety within the workplace.

Participants who attend this programme will:

• Understand the structure of the back and the way in which it can become injured

• Understand the principles of safe moving and handling

• Understand how to comply with current legal requirements in the workplace in relation to safety moving and handling children in a variety of childcare related setting

•     Legal aspects

•     Your back/how it works

•     What can go wrong

•     Good back Care

•     Ergonomics

•     Handling Assessment

•     Principles of safer handling

This Course is Delivered Via:

• Classroom Presentation
• Dvds
• Practical Demonstrations 
• Discussions that are held Throughout the Course

This is a ½ Day Course (Evening course can be arranged)

Full Safetech certification of attendance is provided on successful completion of the course. Certificates are valid for 3 years.

Maximum Participants for this Course is 12

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.