First Aid for Sport, Exercise and Leisure
4 hours

The First Aid for Sport, Exercise and Leisure course content includes essential basic life support and sport injury management.

This is a short course covering essential first aid knowledge and techniques, including basic life support and sport injury management. It is suitable for many Sports Governing Body Coaching Qualifications.

This is the entry level qualification for coaches, spectators and other involved people and is delivered in an active sports context.

Course content

Roles & responsibilities
Recovery Position *
CPR *
Defibrillation *
Bleeding *
Choking *
Soft tissue injuries and Fractures
Head injuries – understanding of compression and concussion.

* Competencies assessed. If no ‘*’ then it is an ‘awareness only’ topic.

Instructors

Our Instructors come from a range of professional and voluntary backgrounds such as:

emergency services (ambulance, police and fire service)
military (medics)
outdoor professionals (Mountain leaders)
Community Responders
Experienced First Aiders

We aim to match instructors to your specific training requirements. They are aware of the specific needs of various outdoor environments, fully understanding the problems and judgements that have to be made when dealing with incidents in stressful, dangerous and remote situations.

Training

Our training is very practical and hands on. We do not rely upon the usual ‘death by PowerPoint’, instead we use progressive incident scenario based training methods. Our courses teach techniques proven to work in real life incidents and not just in a classroom. Our training builds confidence and develops first aid skills into complete incident management.

Prerequisites

None

Assessment

All candidates must attend the full course to qualify. Each candidate is continuously assessed throughout.

Certification

Successful students will be issued with a Certificate valid for 3 years for the competencies assessed. Topics designated as ‘Awareness only’ will be identified as ‘awareness only’ on the Certificate.