Are you planning to work in childcare? Have you recently qualified to work in childcare and are looking for a job? Are you currently working in childcare?
Whichever of these 3 situations you are in, you will need to obtain or renew your First Aid certificate in order to get a new job in childcare or to continue with your existing employment.
But it's important to know that you can't just do any old first aid training course to work in childcare. There is a very specific course you must do in order to be employed by a childcare centre.
What is the only course that qualifies you to work in childcare?
For people working in childcare, there are very good reasons why you need to do a very specialised FIrst Aid course.
For a start, children have very different bodies than adults. So they have very different needs than grownups should they become ill or injured while under your care in a childcare centre. This is even truer for very young children like toddlers and even babies.
Also, some children attending your childcare centre may have allergies or suffer from asthma or other medical conditions. All child care employees therefore need very specialised training on how to handle those as well.
The only first aid course that is considered a legitimate qualification for a child care worker, is HLTAID012 – Provide First Aid in an Education and Care Setting. This is considered the 'industry standard' course that you must do to work in childcare. (This is also the same course that teachers and those who work in Aged Care must do as well.)
What does the course - HLTAID012 - Provide First Aid in an Education & Care Setting cover?
The HLTAID012 course covers a lot of First Aid essentials for children and the elderly, such as handling choking, bleeding, burns, insect and snake bites, minor skin injuries, eye and ear injuries, sprains, strains & dislocations, etc
It also teaches you what to do if a child swallows something poisonous, goes into shock or becomes unconscious. All life-saving skills.
In this course, you learn the correct procedures for performing CPR on a child and an adult. You also train on how to use an AED, which is Automated External Defibrillation device, that is vital for anyone who suffers cardiac arrest. (And yes, this does happen to children.)
Training for allergies and anaphylactic reactions included
Importantly the Childcare First Aid course also covers what you need to do if a child has any type of allergic reaction, which is becoming more common these days, despite the very best efforts of everyone in the childcare industry.
You are also trained in what to do if the child has an anaphylactic reaction, which is much more severe than just an allergic reaction. In this case the child can have a very fast and very severe reaction to an allergen that can lead to their airways being so severely blocked they cannot breathe. In a very short time they can go into shock, have a cardiac arrest and die if they are not given the correct treatment promptly so this is very definitely a life-saving skill every childcare worker needs.
Also training on asthma attacks included in the course
Additionally, the course covers specialised training for a child who suffers from asthma. This too can become a very serious event if the child has an asthma attack while under your care.
Knowing exactly how to handle asthma is again a vitally important life-saving skill you will learn in a childcare first aid course.
In summary, it's a very comprehensive course that provides a high level of training for childcare workers, teachers, aged care workers, etc
When you complete your training with Results First Aid training, you will receive certificate that is valid for work in any state in Australia, because our training is nationally accredited.
You can book your Childcare First Aid training course - HLTAID012 – Provide First Aid in an Education and Care Setting - with Melbourne’s best trainers at our website. Courses are available on a Wednesday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday. Please book now at https://www.resultsfirstaid.com/courses
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