You may find cheaper instructors, but you’ll be hard pushed to find people who are as compassionate, knowledgeable and excellent at teaching to deliver your first aid course.
The courses we offer will give you the knowledge and skills to enable you to deal with emergency situations in or out of your home and workplace. Keeping you safe is what we are all about. Please visit What We Offer for more information about the training that we provide.
Our workplace first aid courses are very popular as are our paediatric, family and pet first aid courses. We also offer courses for care settings as well as first aid courses that are designed specifically for people working in sport, with horses, or who require additional forestry training.
Additionally, online and blended first aid courses are also available to book.
We also provide professional, high-quality first aid event cover across Devon and Cornwall. So that your employees and event attendees and participants are safe, you will need to undertake a risk assessment to determine your first aid requirements.
Our team are caring and safe and have the skills, knowledge and understanding to provide the appropriate care to a casualty prior to the arrival of an ambulance.
Find out more about your responsibilities and get a quote for your first aid event cover.
Equivalent to First Person on Scene (FPOS), First Responder and First Response Emergency Care (FREC) courses. The purpose of this intensive FAQ Level 3 Award for First Responders on Scene: Emergency First Responder (RQF) FROS® is to provide first responders with the skills, knowledge and understanding to provide the appropriate life-saving care to a casualty prior to the arrival of an ambulance.
The First Aid at Work (FAW) Level 3 qualification is suitable for people who might need to respond to a wide range of accidents, injuries and illnesses that they could come across in their workplace. It is an ideal course for large organisations and businesses whose risk assessment has identified that they require a fully trained first aider for their workplace.
Requalification is required every 3 years after completion of the First Aid at Work (FAW) course. This course is set over a two day period with a minimum contact time of 12 hours. In order to do this course, you must have a copy of your original FAW certificate. If your FAW certificate expired more than 28 days ago you will need to re-do the full 3 day FAW course.
The Emergency First Aid at Work (EFAW) level 3 qualification is a popular training option which covers common injuries and illnesses. It is ideal for small to medium-sized organisations, low risk industries, people who require the qualification for freelance work as well as members of the general public who want the reassurance that they know how to deal with a first aid situation should it arise at home or out and about.
The Paediatric First Aid (PFA) level 3 qualification is designed specifically for people who look after babies and children, including child minders, crèche leaders, nannies, au pairs, nursery and pre-school workers, teachers and teaching assistants, and sport and leisure staff. It provides theoretical and practical training in first aid techniques that are specific to infants aged 0 to 1 and children aged from 1 to 18 years old.
The Emergency Paediatric First Aid (EPFA) level 3 qualification is a popular training option that focuses on emergency scenarios that may be faced by people caring for babies and children, including child minders, crèche leaders, nannies, au pairs, nursery and pre-school workers, teachers and teaching assistants, and sport and leisure staff.
The Outdoor Pursuits 16 Hour First Aid course is suitable for people who might need to respond to a wide range of accidents, injuries and illnesses that they could come across when out in rural and remote areas where professional emergency assistance is not easily accessible.
The Outdoor Pursuits 8 Hour First Aid course is suitable for people who might need to respond to accidents, injuries and illnesses that they could come across when out in rural and remote areas where professional emergency assistance is not easily accessible.
After 12 months, it is recommended that you attend a half-day* course to refresh your first aid skills.
The Family First Aid course is designed specifically for members of the general public who want to be able to respond with confidence to baby, child and adult first aid situations in their everyday life, rather than as a requirement of their job.
This First Aid for Babies and Children course is designed specifically for members of the general public who want to be able to respond with confidence to children first aid situations in their everyday life, rather than as a requirement of their job. It would suit (expectant) parents, grandparents, other family members, and anyone who is often around babies and children.
The Community First Aid course gives you basic first aid training to help you deal with a first aid emergency in your local community. This course is ideal for community groups, youth groups, families or individuals.
At the end of every course delegates are provided with the opportunity to leave feedback and we are proud to say that our score is mostly 5/5.
Below is just some of the feedback that White Cross Training has received.
“Laurence was really helpful and always doubled checked we had understood the section we had just covered! Thank you very much!”
“I wanted to message you to say a huge thank you for today. The feedback from myself and the team was fabulous! They all enjoyed it and felt the course…
“Highly recommend. Very much child led and the leader Laurence was very attentive of children’s needs”
“The Course was amazing and Laurence was very helpful and welcoming.”
“The course was fun, interactive, covered enough topics in the right amount of depth for both my 9 & 5 year olds. I loved how you let the kids lead…
“I had already taken a pet first aid course before but wanted to refresh my skills and found this one much more in-depth and hands on”
“Thanks For an amazing training session”
“Really enjoyed the scenarios and fake blood! Very interactive and really enjoyed the course.”
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