Paediatric First Aid Course in Oxford

Aim2Aid is a family run business led by Rebecca Sullivan, and the reviews on our Trustpilot widget speak for how Oxford settings rate the training; the work itself is a nursery floor, an infant manikin and a group of staff who need to act.

Trainers are in-house and never outsourced, the same team behind our emergency first aid at work services Oxford employers book, delivered at your setting across Oxford and surrounding areas.

Call 07771 680794 to talk to Rebecca about dates for your setting.

What Paediatric First Aid Covers

A nursery playroom in Oxford is usually a converted room with a low sink, a nappy change unit and a floor covered in wipe-clean vinyl. That is where the incidents happen: a grape lodged in a windpipe by the snack table, a scalp split on the corner of a radiator guard, a toddler blue and quiet on the mat. Paediatric first aid trains for that room, not a hospital.

The syllabus covers infant and child CPR, choking in babies and children, the recovery position sized for a small body, casualty assessment, anaphylaxis and adrenaline auto-injectors, asthma, febrile seizures, burns, head injuries, fractures and bleeding. Life-threatening bleed control is now trained on every course we run, including this one, with catastrophic bleeding and pressure work practised properly rather than described. Delegates handle infant and junior manikins, not adult torsos.

Content is set against the practical realities of a childcare setting. Skills first, theory second.

Course Dates, Venues and Delivery Options in Oxford

Most Oxford settings we work in are older buildings: Victorian terraces converted to day nurseries, church halls with a serving hatch and a hard floor, and preschool rooms in a school annexe with limited space. Training happens on your premises, in the room your staff actually work in, so the layout of the door, the sink and the nappy station is part of the exercise. We do not run open courses at a training centre and we do not take individual bookings into a shared session.

Dates are set around your rota. Closure days, a Saturday, an evening block after pickup, whatever keeps ratios intact during the week. Rebecca coordinates the diary directly and will tell you honestly what is available rather than pencilling in a date that slips.

Blended delivery is an option on this course. Theory is completed online by each delegate beforehand, then the practical element is delivered at your premises, which shortens the classroom time on site while keeping the same qualification and the same three-year certificate. Groups are kept small enough that everyone gets hands on a manikin.

Your room, your rota, your dates.

Course Formats and Duration for Oxford Homes

A childminder working from a semi in Headington has a different problem to a forty-place nursery: one adult, a hallway, stairs with a gate and a garden. The format follows the setting. The full paediatric first aid course runs over two days, twelve hours in total, and is the one required where staff are counted for early years ratios. Emergency paediatric first aid runs over one day, six hours, and suits assistants, bank staff, sports coaches, parents and grandparents.

Both formats carry a three-year certificate recognised by HSE, Ofsted and the DfE, and both are accredited by FAIB, the awarding body behind our first aid courses. Our mental health courses sit with FAA, which is a separate accreditation and we keep the two apart.

• Paediatric first aid: two days, twelve hours, three-year certificate.
• Emergency paediatric first aid: one day, six hours, three-year certificate.
• Blended option: online theory plus the practical session at your premises.
• Delivery: at your setting only, at a date you choose.

Who the Course Is For

Look at the sign-in sheet in an Oxford setting and you get the picture: room leaders, apprentices on level two, a cook who covers the garden at lunchtime, a bank member who does three afternoons. All of them may be first on the scene. The course is written for that mix, not for clinicians.

It suits nursery and preschool staff, childminders and their assistants, nannies and au pairs, out-of-school club staff, foster carers, sports and swimming coaches, and parents who want to be able to act on a choking baby. Nobody is failed on paperwork. Assessment is continuous, watched by the trainer across the two days, with practical demonstration of CPR, choking response and the recovery position, plus short question and answer work.

If you are also arranging cover for the office, kitchen or maintenance side of the business, that is workplace training rather than paediatric, and we cover it separately for your staff.

EYFS, Ofsted and Childcare Compliance

Inspectors ask for certificates and they ask who was on shift. The Early Years Foundation Stage framework requires at least one person with a current paediatric first aid certificate on the premises and available at all times when children are present, and on outings. Newly qualified level two and three entrants counted in ratios need it too. The Health and Safety Executive sets the wider duty for first aid provision at work, and the two sit alongside each other in a nursery.

Our certificates are three-year and recognised by Ofsted and the DfE, issued after the course with names spelled as you give them, so the file is straight when the inspector arrives. Keep the certificate in the folder and a copy on the wall.

Compliant on paper and in the room.

Practical Skills Taught

The floor is the workspace. Manikins go down on the vinyl, the trainer kneels with the group, and everyone does the sequence themselves rather than watching it once.

Assess and call

Danger, response, airway, breathing. Delegates practise the primary survey on an infant and on a child, learn what a quiet baby means, and rehearse the 999 call including what a dispatcher needs from a nursery address.

Resuscitate

Five rescue breaths then compressions on infant and child manikins, correct depth with two fingers or one hand, and the switch to a defibrillator with paediatric pads where one is fitted.

Clear and control

Back blows and chest thrusts on a baby, abdominal thrusts on a child, then bleeding control with pressure and dressings, burns cooling under running water, and adrenaline auto-injector technique with a trainer pen.

Record and review

Accident book entries, what to hand over to a parent, and when a child needs onward medical review after a head knock or a bite.

Aim2Aid Ltd is a family run business led by Rebecca Sullivan, with in-house trainers only, never outsourced, and over fifty years of combined experience between them. Practice, then repeat.