Highfield Level 3 Award in Emergency Care for First Responders (RQF)

This qualification is aimed at learners working in roles where their primary or secondary focus involves giving emergency medical care as the first responder on the scene of an accident or emergency.

Roles may include, security operatives, close protection officers, event medical operatives, cabin crew and community first responders, among others. It is ideal for those learners that need a wider level of knowledge than standard first aid at work qualifications. 

Course Details

Entry requirements:

• To register onto this qualification, learners must be a minimum of 16 years of age.

• It is further advised that learners have a minimum of Level 1 in English and maths

Upon completion of this First Aid course, you will have passed the following units:

Unit 1 - Emergency Care for First Responders.

Qualification Outcomes

In line with industry guidance, the qualification supports responders for a period of 3 years, at which point learners will need to re-sit the course.

In addition, we recommend that learners refresh their knowledge annually.

Training also includes how to:

Unit 1

• Understand the role and responsibilities of first responders

• Be able to assess an incident and conduct casualty surveys

• Be able to manage an unresponsive casualty

• Be able to administer therapeutic oxygen therapy

• Understand when to administer nitrous oxide in line with the first responder’s scope of practice

• Understand how to safely handle medical gas cylinders

• Be able to recognise and manage a compromised airway 

• Be able to administer first aid to a casualty with external bleeding

• Be able to recognise and manage a casualty who is in shock

• Be able to effectively assess a casualty’s condition

• Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with suspected injuries to bones, muscles and joints

• Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with suspected head and spinal injuries

• Be able to recognise and manage a casualty with a suspected chest injury

• Understand how to administer first aid to a casualty with minor injuries

• Understand how sudden poisoning can occur and how to provide first aid to a casualty with sudden poisoning

• Be able to recognise and administer first aid to a casualty with a suspected medical emergency or major illness