Is in-house Moving and Handling training legal?
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I currently work in a lovely care home in Scotland with previous experience in many other healthcare/support worker roles.
The company I work for provides 'in-house' practical Moving and Handling training, training provided by a fellow carer.
In my previous employments all practical training was provided by an outside, accredited trainer. I am curious if this is a legal requirement? The carer who trains other staff in my place of work does not have a training qualification or SVQ.
One of the three carers who train the new starts was reprimanded for a fault in their training. She made a serious error, if you have previous care experience you knew what she was teaching was wrong, that could have caused serious injury.
No-Jicama-6523@reddit
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My guess is that it’s fine if the trainer is accredited, I imagine the NHS does it in house.
Whithorsematt@reddit
We as managers were externally trained and then cascaded that to the team.
GuybrushFunkwood@reddit
As long as any work training is provided by a competent nominated person (usually a craft trainer but it can sometimes be management) then it’s perfectly legal. The person(s) providing the training are usually sent on a ‘Train the Trainer’ course but they don’t have to be.
Douglesfield_@reddit
I don't think I've ever received external moving and handling training and I've worked in healthcare and out of it.
Chinateapott@reddit
I work retail but we have coworkers who are trained to train the rest of us on some things, including manual handling. When I worked in care all training apart from first aid, was done in house.
Drath101@reddit
Yeah I've done loads of manual jobs. Don't think it's ever been more than some shit internal E-learning
Milam1996@reddit
In house training is perfectly fine, it’s how the entire nhs operates across many skills not just MH. The person teaching you needs to be both competent at the skill themselves and a competent teacher. Most places prove this by having them do train the trainer. Not a requirement though but CQC might be a little confused as to how you’re proving they’re competent though.
PolarLocalCallingSvc@reddit
It's lawful, yes.
If the training is clearly dangerous then it would breach workplace safety legislation though. This would apply whether it was internal or external, though hiring an external firm might provide some plausible deniability should anything go wrong.
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