Level 3 Award

Emergency Paediatric First Aid (RQF)

The Health and Safety (First Aid) Regulation of 1981 requires all employers in the United Kingdom to provide adequate resources and ability to provide immediate first aid should any individual become ill or injured in the work setting. This regulation also mandates conducting risk and hazard assessments as well as providing adequate first aid training to address the types of hazards identified within the entire workplace. This is to include all paediatric settings.

Intended Audience

The Level 3 Award in Emergency Paediatric First Aid is a nationally recognised and regulated qualification designed to meet the criteria set-forth by the Department of Education’s Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) and is ideal for:

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• Individuals who have earned level 2 or 3 childcare qualifications and wish to be employed in staff to child ratios complying with EYFS requirements, or

• Anyone who has regular involvement with infants and children such as parents and grandparents who want to learn key paediatric skills.

Individuals intending to take this course should be mentally and emotionally equipped to provide all levels of paediatric first aid wherever and whenever necessary.

Course Overview

The Level 3 Award in Paediatric First Aid is conducted in a 1 day course where students learn to successfully manage various emergencies which require paediatric first aid in or out of the workplace. The skills learned include (but are not limited to): incident assessment; managing an unresponsive child; choking; CPR; use of AEDs on infants and children; asthma emergencies; anaphylaxis, severe bleeding, and head and/or spinal trauma.

Assessment Methods

Student assessment in this course are both formative and summative. Students are assessed throughout the duration of the course in a manner which allows each student to identify their strengths and weaknesses in a friendly and encouraging manner. Additionally, there are five practical assessments and one theory assessments in the form of multiple-choice questions.