Advanced Training

For senior staff we have a number of qualified training courses e.g. Manual Handling Trainer, Client Handling Assessor, VDU Assessor, Manual Handling Risk Assessor. Each candidate receives a comprehensive study manual and upon certification will be equipped with all the tools and support to proficiently perform their duties. We also supply presenter/assessor packs that include presenter notes, study manuals, overhead slides, forms, handouts and videos.

Manual Handling Risk Assessor

This course is tailored to suit the type of manual handling applications on-site and requires a pre-course site visit by the Physiotherapist, which is included in the price. Each candidate will receive all the necessary forms, a comprehensive study manual and upon certification will be able to:

• Understand the legislation relevant to manual handling risk assessment
• Understand the numerical guidelines relating to manual handling, as recommended by the MHOR
• Understand how injuries occur
• Show a basic understanding of ergonomics
• Identify manual handling risk factors
• Identify risk reducing factors relative to manual handling
• Carry out a risk assessment, including recommendations for reducing risk, on an identified area
• Identify areas of the body at risk from work related musculoskeletal disorders
• Recognise some common potentially work related pathologies
• Calculate action categories from simple survey methods

Successful candidates will benefit from our aftercare programme.

• Relevant legislation involved in manual handling risk assessment
• Anatomy and Mechanics of injury
• Work related musculoskeletal disorders
• Introduction to ergonomics Hazard identification and risk reducing factors concerning manual handling
• Performing a risk assessment
• Introduction to survey methods, e.g. OWAS and RULA

The course will end with the candidate completing a written theory assessment and performing a risk assessment of an identified area within their workplace. The course tutor will require access to the identified areas no less than 2 weeks prior to the course commencing, to allow them to identify the hazards and evaluate the candidate’s completed risk assessments.

DSE/VDU Assessor

Each candidate will receive a comprehensive study manual and upon certification will be able to:

• State employer’s responsibilities regarding DSE Legislation
• Understand how VDU work-related musculoskeletal and visual disorders arise
• Identify employees requiring referral onto the Occupational Health Department
• Proficiently assess employee’s VDU Workstations
• Impart advice to employees regarding their workstation, posture and adverse health effects

Successful candidates will benefit from our aftercare programme. 

• Legislation
• Anatomy & Posture
• Mechanics of Injury Work Related Musculoskeletal Disorders
• Clinical Tests for the Diagnosis of Upper Limb Disorders
• Pause Exercises
• Visual Conditions Affecting VDU Users
• Computer Vision Syndrome
• Visual Fatigue Exercises
• Basic Introduction to Ergonomics & Anthropometrics
• Workstation Components & Set-up
• VDU Workstation Assessment
• R.U.L.A.

 
Client Handling Assessor

Our aim is to provide the client with Assessors who can review client handling situations, highlight deficiencies and advise the appropriate corrective action required.

Since there is an examination at the end of this course, which candidates will have to pass to receive certification, clients should ensure that only suitably experienced and responsible candidates attend.

For optimum benefit, we would recommend this course be provided over a two week period i.e. 2 consecutive days each week, for two weeks.

All our courses can be provided at the client’s premises if there is a sufficient number of attendees. For client’s with under 12 candidates, this course is provided every six months at our Training Centres. Please contact our central booking office for details of the next scheduled Four Day Assessor Course - Client Handling.

Manual Handling Trainer

Since there is an examination at the end of this course, which candidates will have to pass to receive certification, clients should ensure that only suitably experienced and responsible candidates attend. Successful candidates will benefit from our aftercare programme, and there is even a freephone number for them to use and speak with one of our Chartered Physiotherapists.

All our courses can be provided at the client’s premises if there is a sufficient number of attendees. For client’s with under 8 candidates, open courses are provided throughout the UK at our Training Centres. Please contact our central booking office for details of the next scheduled Trainer’s Course. (Inanimate Objects).

Course content:

• Training Issues / Presentation Skills
• Legislation
• Anatomy & Posture
• Mechanics of Injury
• Back Care & Exercises
• Principles of Safe Handling
• Principles of Efficient Movement
• Lifting & Lowering Guidelines
• Pushing & Pulling Guidelines
• Basic Introduction to Ergonomics
• Risk Assessment

Presenter’s pack:
Everything your new Trainers will need to provide moving and handling courses. This boxed set includes Presenter Notes, Slides, Study Manual, forms e.g. course itineraries, attendance registers etc. and 12 copies of our 17 page Efficient Movement Booklets to cover the Trainer’s first course.

Client & Object Handling Trainer Course

There is an examination at the end of this course, which candidates will have to pass to receive certification. This course is suitable for Chartered Physiotherapists and Occupational Therapists. Other candidates will be considered, based upon their qualifications and experience of client handling or manual handling. For candidates without suitable qualification/experience, additional modules will be required. Successful candidates will benefit from our aftercare programme, and there is even a telephone number for them to use and speak with one of our Chartered Physiotherapists.

The training of Trainers in client handling comes in two parts. Firstly there is a five day intensive workshop. Candidates who have successfully completed the workshop will then be required to “train out” a course, under the supervision of a PhysiCare trainer. Both parts must be completed within a 3 month period.

All our courses can be provided at the client’s premises if there is a sufficient number of attendees. For client’s with under 6 candidates, open courses are provided throughout the UK at our Training Centres. Please contact our central booking office for details of the next scheduled Trainer’s Course (Client & Object Handling).

Course content: 

• Training Issues / Presentation Skills
• Legislation
• Anatomy & Posture
• Mechanics of Injury
• Back Care & Exercises
• Principles of Safe Handling
• Principles of Efficient Movement
• Lifting & Lowering Guidelines
• Pushing & Pulling Guidelines
• Basic Introduction to Ergonomics
• Risk Assessment
• Client Handling:
  • Equipment overview
  • Condemned manoeuvres
  • High risk situations
  • Chair manoeuvres
  • Bed manoeuvres Hoist demonstration from bed/chair
  • Hoist practice
  • Client handling risk assessment scenarios

Presenter’s pack:
Everything your new Trainers will need to provide moving and handling courses. This boxed set includes Presenter Notes, Slides, Study Manual, forms e.g. course itineraries, attendance registers etc. and 12 copies of our 30 page Client & Object Handling Booklets to cover the Trainer’s first course. Client handling trainers will also require handling aids i.e. roller sheets, turntables, handblocks, transfer boards etc., all of which we can provide details and supply sources for.