First Aid Instructor or First Aid Training Business
Becoming an ITC Accredited Trainer, Provider or Centre
It is best to contact the ITC Office, where we will be able to help you make informed decisions regarding your best options, the first aid sector can appear fragmented and confusing for those new to the sector. There are established pathways to becoming an ITC approved business or accredited trainer, our guidance to the appropriate path begins with us determining your previous experience and business needs:
- I am an individual who wishes to become a first aid trainer
- I am an experienced First Aid Trainer with an organisation other than ITC
- I wish to deliver (work for) training through an existing ITC Provider
- We wish to become an ITC Centre
- I have no formal adult education qualifications
1. I am an individual who wishes to become a first aid trainer and run a small business
To deliver first aid training in the UK the following are required: approved business identity & accredited trainer / assessor status.
Accredited trainers / assessors require: PTLLS [preparing to teach in the lifelong learning sector] + FAW [first aid at work]
2. I am an experienced First Aid Trainer with an organisation other than ITC
In this case we ask you to take part in a 2-day Induction event so that you can experience the training and assessment methodology of ITC and be made aware of the administration and WebOffice processes unique to ITC.
You then have to arrange (clients and venue) an EFAW course and demonstrate delivering (teaching, assessing and using ITC administration). Provided you meet the criteria you may then seek approval to deliver any ITC First Aid qualification by following the pathways common to all ITC Providers.
If you are an existing first aid training business; contact ITC directly to discuss your needs.
3. I wish to deliver (work for) training through an existing ITC Provider
Make contact with the established ITC Provider and provided they can fulfil certain ITC criteria they will become responsible for your training and assessment activity.
4. We wish to become an ITC Centre
If you are already an established businesses or educational establishment with the resources to fulfill the internal verification requirements of ITC then complete Centre application form C1.
The Centre makes an application for Centre status by completing document C1.
The Centres makes an application to deliver a qualification completing document C3.
Accredited qualifications delivered by a Centre, include:
- ITC Level 2 Award in Activity First Aid [QCF] - 501/2396/8
- ITC Level 2 Award in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and Automated External Defibrillation [QCF] - 600/1755/7
- ITC Level 2 Award in Emergency First Aid at Work [QCF] - 501/1714/2
- ITC Level 2 Award in Paediatric First Aid [QCF] - 501/1713/0
The Centre will receive Externally Verification visits according to risk. Therefore there will be a visit on an early course (normally the first course) and then if all activity can be verified there will be another External Verification visit within a year and after that at less regular intervals. If everything is satisfactory a Centre might be visited 2 times within the first 14 months and twice in the following 3 years. Individual Action Plans for each Centre will be developed to help manage risk.
All staff member have access to the same training and resources as all other ITC Providers.
5. I have no formal adult education qualifications
It has been a requirement since 2010 for all involved in the adult education sector delivering courses on the Credit Qualifications Framework that they be 'professionalised' and 'credentialised'. The minimum threshold requirement will be a Preparing to Teach in the Lifelong Learning Sector award (PTLLS). This award is delivered over an intensive 6-day course, supported by pre and post course work.
The First Aid Instructor + PTTLS + FAW is mapped to current criteria and delivered in an integrated manner.