Qualification code
CATCTT
First Aid Training
Severe Bleeding Train the Trainer Course
Practical Train the Trainer course covering severe bleeding control and the skills needed to demonstrate, teach and assess others.
Family-run since 2005
Personal, friendly service
ISO 9001 certified
Course design, delivery & certification
UK-wide workplace delivery
In-house training across the UK
Regulated, recognised & bespoke
Qualifications, programmes & GST courses
- Certification
- Good Skills Training
- Maximum learners
- Up to 12 per tutor
About the training
Course Overview
Our Severe Bleeding Train the Trainer Course is for competent first aid trainers who want to deliver practical training in the recognition and immediate management of life-threatening bleeding.
The course starts with the skills trainers need to be able to demonstrate themselves. Learners explore how to recognise severe bleeding, prioritise immediate actions and use appropriate bleeding-control techniques, including direct pressure, wound packing, tourniquets and haemostatic dressings.
But being able to perform a skill isn't the same as being able to teach it. We therefore spend a significant part of the course looking at how to explain and demonstrate techniques, organise realistic practical exercises, supervise learners safely, recognise mistakes and assess whether somebody can perform the skills correctly.
This is very much a hands-on Train the Trainer course. Learners practise the techniques themselves before progressing to demonstrating, coaching and assessing others.
We don't just teach a sequence of actions. We look at why different bleeding-control methods are used, their limitations and how trainers can help learners make sensible decisions rather than simply remembering a procedure.
By the end of the course, successful learners will have demonstrated both the practical severe-bleeding skills and training skills needed to deliver severe bleeding training within the scope of their own competence and organisational procedures.
Who should attend?
Who is this course for?
- First aid trainers who want to deliver severe bleeding training.
- First aid instructors responsible for training workplace first aiders.
- In-house trainers who need to deliver bleeding-control training within their organisation.
- Health and safety trainers who already have appropriate first aid knowledge and training experience.
- Emergency response trainers responsible for practical bleeding-control skills.
- Professional trainers who want to add severe bleeding training to the courses they provide.
Course content
What will you learn?
- Recognising severe and life-threatening bleeding.
- Scene safety and the immediate priorities of casualty care.
- Calling for emergency medical assistance.
- Rapid casualty assessment and identifying significant bleeding.
- Direct pressure and appropriate use of trauma dressings.
- Wound packing techniques.
- The purpose and use of haemostatic dressings.
- When a tourniquet may be required.
- Different types of commercial tourniquet and the importance of following product instructions.
- Practical tourniquet application.
- Checking whether bleeding has been controlled.
- Recording and communicating tourniquet application.
- Shock, casualty monitoring and handover to the emergency services.
- Penetrating trauma awareness.
- Planning and structuring severe bleeding training.
- Explaining and demonstrating practical techniques effectively.
- Organising realistic and safe practical exercises.
- Supervising practical training.
- Recognising and correcting unsafe or ineffective techniques.
- Assessing learners' practical performance.
- Providing constructive feedback.
- Delivering a practical micro-teach session.
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The details
Course Information
The practical details you may need before arranging or booking this course.
Maximum learners
Maximum learner-to-tutor ratio: 12:1.
This is a practical Train the Trainer course, so learners need sufficient opportunity to practise severe-bleeding techniques, demonstrate skills and take part in training exercises.
Our tutor observes practical performance throughout the course, corrects techniques and provides feedback as learners develop both their bleeding-control and training skills.
A smaller group size may be required where the venue, available equipment or planned practical exercises would otherwise limit safe and effective participation.
Prerequisites
The prerequisites for the Severe Bleeding Train the Trainer Course depend on how the learner intends to use the training afterwards.
- Commercial first aid trainers: learners who intend to deliver severe bleeding training commercially as part of first aid training must already be competent first aid trainers and hold the appropriate first aid and training qualifications, together with suitable experience.
- In-house trainers: learners who only intend to deliver internal toolbox talks, awareness sessions or practical instruction on the use of tourniquets, haemostatic dressings and other bleeding-control equipment do not need to be qualified first aid trainers, provided they are not delivering formal first aid training.
This course does not qualify somebody to become a first aid instructor.
If you are looking to deliver formal first aid courses, you should complete our First Aid Instructors Course, which provides the broader first aid and instructional competence needed to train and assess first aid learners.
This is a hands-on practical course. Learners will be required to practise bleeding-control techniques, including wound packing and tourniquet application, and demonstrate practical skills to other members of the group.
Learners should tell us before the course about any disability, medical condition or additional support requirement that may affect their participation so suitable support or reasonable adjustments can be considered.
Course duration
The Severe Bleeding Train the Trainer Course is delivered over 1 full day.
The course combines practical severe-bleeding skills with trainer development. Learners first practise the techniques they may subsequently teach before progressing to demonstrations, coaching, assessment and practical training delivery.
Time is provided for practical exercises, discussion, questions, individual feedback and micro-teaching.
Assessment
This isn't an attendance-only Train the Trainer course. Learners need to demonstrate both their severe-bleeding skills and their ability to teach practical techniques safely.
Assessment takes place throughout the course through tutor questioning, practical observation and feedback.
Learners are required to demonstrate appropriate bleeding-control techniques, including wound packing and tourniquet application, and show that they can explain and demonstrate skills, supervise practice, recognise ineffective or unsafe techniques and provide appropriate feedback.
Each learner also delivers a practical micro-teach session to demonstrate their ability to deliver severe bleeding training to others.
Successful completion requires competence in both practical severe-bleeding skills and training delivery.
Certification
Learners who successfully complete the course and assessment receive a Severe Bleeding Train the Trainer certificate.
Good Skills Training is ISO 9001 certified for the delivery of training and consultancy services, including course certification. You can find out more about how we certificate first aid courses here.
Requalification
There is no fixed expiry for this GST course unless stated in the booking confirmation. Employers should schedule refresher training when procedures, risks or guidance change, or where practice shows it is needed.
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