Ignite Unlocking Potential is an awarding centre based in South Wales offering sector leading regulated (Ofqual) First Aid solutions for your business and sector regulatory compliance needs.
We offer Forestry, Paediatric and Outdoor First Aid packages, as well as stand alone courses. Our courses can be tailored to meet your business needs with a range of combinations e.g. Outdoor + Forestry and/or blended learning approaches combining in person delivery and E-Learning options.
We deliver our courses across the UK and can deliver at one of our venues including our beautiful home at Dare Valley Community Woodland or we can arrange bespoke group bookings at your venue.
Outdoor/Forest School First Aid
This qualification is suitable for workers in outdoor specific environments such as forests, beaches and mountains. It will also maintain the license to practice for those with Outdoor National Governing Body Instructor Awards and Forest School Leaders requiring a Tier 3 First Aid Qualification.
External Accreditation
All of our qualifications are accredited and regulated with Ofqual. It is built by combining 2 mandatory units of assessment in one coherent training package. This is the only Outdoor First Aid qualification that is externally regulated and meets the standards to appear upon a national qualifications framework.
Unit 1 Emergency Outdoor First Aid (E-OFA)
This unit can lead to a qualification suitable for Emergency Outdoor First Aid (RQF L3) purposes and this additional certificate will be provided by request at then end of the course delivery.
Unit 2 Managing Illness and Injuries in the Outdoors
Completion of this unit content leads to the Outdoor First Aid qualification (RQF L3).
EFAW – RQF Level 2 – 6 hrs (1 day)
On completion of training, successful candidates should be able to understand the role of the first aider including reference to:
The importance of preventing cross infection.
Use of available equipment.
Administer cardiopulmonary resuscitation CPR.
Administer first aid to a casualty who is wounded and bleeding
Administer first to a casualty who is choking
The need for recording incidents and actions.
Administer first aid to a casualty who is unconscious (including seizure).
Administer first aid to a casualty who is suffering from shock
Provide appropriate first for minor injuries
£65 per person
First Aid at Work (FAW) QCF Level 3 – 18 hours (3 day)”
Day 1 EFAW as above, with further 2 days (12 hours) content for FAW
Provide emergency First Aid at work Administer first aid to a casualty with:
Injuries to bones, muscles and joints, included suspected spinal injuries
Burns and Scalds
Sudden poisoning
Recognise the presence of major illness and provide appropriate first aid (including heart attack, stroke, epilepsy, asthma, diabetes.
Chest injuries
Eye injuries
Anaphylactic shock
£200 per person
Paediatric First Aid QCF Level 3 – 12+hours (2 day)”
This course is for those who might have to identify and manage emergency situations or manage minor everyday occurrences when looking after pre-puberty children. This qualification meets Ofsted requirements for those working in early years settings and is one of those linked to in the statutory framework for the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) document which comes into force on 01/09/14.
The statutory document requires at least one person who has a current paediatric first aid certificate ‘to be on the premises and available at all times when children are present, and must accompany children on outings’.
It also represents the best practice first aid qualification to hold for staff who look after all ages of primary school children.
Qualification Structure:
Unit 1 Emergency Paediatric First Aid
Unit 2 Managing Paediatric Illness, Injuries and Emergencies
£120 per person
