ITC Certificate in Forest School First Aid

Topics include:

• Roles & responsibilities
• Adult/child/infant specific treatments
• Dealing with collapse (with and without breathing)
• Choking
• Bleeding
• Shock
• Major illnesses
• Torso and limb injuries
• Environmental effects
• Heat and cold injuries
• Using first aid kit
• Outdoor specific scenarios
• Outdoor incident management and looking after a casualty for more than 10 minutes

This course is designed to provide outdoor incident management skills. Typical delivery methods are predominantly practical, with elements occurring out of doors in outdoor clothing and on various terrains.

Qualification training requires:

• Minimum tutor contact time of 16 hours (excluding breaks).
• 1:12 tutor to candidate ratio.
• Course must be completed within 9 weeks of starting.
• Each delivery session must be a minimum of 2 hours.
• Successful completion will result in candidate gaining ITC Certificate in Forest School First Aid.
• The qualification is re-validated by attending another similar course after 3 years.