Moving and Handling of People Training

Moving and Handling Training – Health & Social Care. Safe moving and positioning are essential in health and social care to promote independence, dignity, and functional mobility, while reducing the risk of injury to both service users and carers. This course is designed for individuals and organisations seeking high-quality skills training in London and effective workplace skills training.

Delivered at our Training Centre in London, this course forms part of our wider training courses supporting professional development in London and career training in London for health and social care professionals.

If you work in health and social care, moving and handling individuals is often a core part of your role. This may involve the use of specialist equipment such as sliding aids, hoists, slings, and handling belts. Incorrect techniques can lead to serious injury, making proper training essential.

This course provides practical knowledge, techniques, and guidance to ensure moving and handling tasks are carried out safely, confidently, and in line with best practice. Learners will understand how to follow risk assessments, use equipment correctly, and maintain safety at all times.

This module outlines the key principles involved in moving and handling, including the relevant legislation and guidelines. It also outlines the different responsibilities employees and employers have and the support available to facilitate good practice.

• Key principles involved in assisting and moving people
• Employer and employee responsibilities
• Legislation and guidelines
• Support available to facilitate good practice

This module explains risk assessments including how to identify the potential hazards and implement appropriate controls to prevent them. It outlines the importance of skeletal fragility including the spine, back care and common injuries involved in moving and handling.

• Understanding risk assessments
• Awareness of skeletal fragility
• Moving and handling risk factors
• Controlling the risk factors
• Common moving and handling injuries
• Reviewing and updating risk assessments

This module looks at how bodies move and the important factors to remember when preparing and performing moving and handling tasks, ensuring they are undertaken safely and with the service user's dignity in mind.

• Importance of communication between staff and service user
• Principles of safe moving and handling
• Ergonomic approach and its importance
• Human movement patterns
• Approaches that promote dignity and independence

This module teaches about different types of equipment and the preparatory checks that must be made before using them. It also explains the situations in which you would need to use the equipment and how it should be used.

• Introduction to moving and handling equipment
• Preparatory checks
• Electric profiling beds
• Bed rails
• Hoists and slings
• Slide sheets
• Wheelchairs
• Turning aids
• Commodes
• Shower chairs
• Bath seats
• Handling belts
• Transfer boards

The final module covers the techniques and key things to remember when moving and handling people. It outlines different scenarios and activities you may have to carry out as part of your role and how to complete them correctly.

• Key things to remember
• Controversial techniques
• Assisted sitting
• Assisted standing
• Assisted walking
• Lying to sitting
• Rolling a service user in bed
• Repositioning using slide sheets
• A fallen service user
• Dressing
• Getting into a vehicle

To arrange Moving and Handling of People Training for your team:

Availability: Flexible training sessions to suit your organisation's needs.