Skills Passport

This Course is delivered by STEC on Behalf of Liverpool Adult Learning Service


                                  Intent What will I learn?

You will enhance your employability by developing and demonstrating your knowledge of topics essential to enter the labour market or to advance in the world of work. Your Skills Passport Journey will comprise a series of short courses to align you to your Personal Ambitions for paid employment or volunteering. Your learning will prepare you to satisfy external accreditation requirements leading to qualifications which can transform and up-date your CV increasing your chances of securing interviews, progressing into work or achieving advancement in a workplace.    

There are three possible 24 Hour Journeys or Models for you to select:

Model AModel BModel C
3 Day First Aid at Work2 Day Paediatric First AidEmergency First Aid
   
 And One of the belowAnd Two of the below
 Health and SafetyHealth and Safety
 Manual HandlingManual Handling
 Food SafetyFood Safety
 NutritionNutrition

Impact What can I expect to achieve?

When you successfully achieve your learning goals, following course completion you will receive the followings awards (as appropriate to your selection):

First Aid at Work Level 3, Paediatric First Aid at Work Level 3, Health & Safety in the Workplace Level 2, Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2, Nutrition for Health Level 2.

What could this course lead to?

Our aim is that you use this knowledge to update your CV to improve your employability (for paid or voluntary work). However, the programme can be used as a learning foundation to progress to higher level vocational awards in Social Care, Childcare, Catering Construction, Events or Education. Many progression opportunities can be accessed via Liverpool Adult Learning Service and your tutors at STEC are qualified in IAG (Information Advice and Guidance) to support your progression.

Course Information – Skills Passport Options

Tailored Learning Outcome 3: Improved Skills for Work

HABC First Aid at Work Level 3

Intent – what will I learn?

  • The role and responsibilities of the first-aider
  • Assessing an emergency
  • Managing an unresponsive casualty
  • Managing c choking casualty
  • Wounds and bleeding
  • Shock
  • Seizures
  • Dealing with minor injuries
  • Bones, muscles and joints
  • Head and spinal injuries
  • Chest injuries
  • Dealing with major illness
  • Poisoning
  • Other injuries

HABC Emergency First Aid Level 3

Intent – What will I learn?

  • The role and responsibilities of the first-aider
  • Assessing an emergency
  • Managing an unresponsive casualty
  • Managing c choking casualty
  • Wounds and bleeding
  • Shock
  • Seizures
  • Dealing with minor injuries

HABC Paediatric First Aid Level 3

Intent – What will I learn?

  • Role and responsibilities of the paediatric first-aider
  • Assessing an emergency situation safely
  • Unresponsive and breathing normally
  • Unresponsive and not breathing normally
  • Foreign body airway obstruction
  • External Bleeding
  • Shock
  • Bites and strings
  • Minor injuries
  • Bones, joints and muscles
  • Head, neck and back injuries
  • Conditions affecting the eyes, ears and nose
  • Acute medical conditions or sudden illness
  • Extreme heat and cold
  • Electric shock
  • Burns and scalds
  • Poisoning
  • Anaphylaxis
  • Records relating to illnesses, injuries and emergencies

HABC Principles of Fire Safety Level 2

Intent – What will I learn?

  • Causes of fire
    • Common hazards
    • Steps in a fire risk assessment
    • Reducing the likelihood of fires
    • Principle of fire safety
    • Fire risks are controlled

RSPH Health and Safety in the Workplace Level 2

Intent – what will I learn?

  • The Legislative Context
  • Roles and Responsibilities for Health, Safety and Welfare in the Workplace
  • Risk Assessment and its contribution to Health & Safety
  • Identification and Control of Risks from Common Workplace Hazards
  • Procedures for response to Accidents and incidents in the workplace

RSPH Food Safety & Hygiene Level 2

Intent – what will I learn?

  • The Legislative Context
  • Food Safety Hazards – contamination / cross-contamination hazards, illness and injury, personal hygiene and behaviour change, legal requirements
  • The control of food safety hazards – cross contamination, temperature control, stock / deliveries, workflow, work surfaces and equipment, work area, other hazards / potential hazards, food spoilage and waste, pest prevention.

RSPH Nutrition for Health Level 2

Intent – what will I learn?

  • Introduction to Nutrition
  • The balance of good Health
  • Diet and Health
  • Nutritional requirements of different groups
  • Catering for different groups
  • Food Processing and Fortification
  • Food Labelling

RSPH Principles of Manual Handling Level 2

Intent – what will I learn?

  • Understand the reasons for safe manual handling
  • Understand how manual handling risk assessments contribute to improving health and safety
  • Understand the principles, types of equipment and testing requirements associated with manual handling safety
  • Reasons for safe manual handling
  • How manual handling risk assessments contribute to improving health and safety
  • Equipment and testing requirements

All RSPH qualifications are delivered over one day and are assessed by a 40 minute test comprising 25 multiple choice questions.  These are marked externally by Royal Society for Public Health (RSPH).