Blended course - Online learning + classroom-based practical assessment + micro-teach

Become competent and confident to deliver people moving and handling training within your organisation or training service.

This Moving and Handling People Train the Trainer Level 3 course combines online learning with a face-to-face practical assessment and micro-teach session at The Mandatory Training Group’s Coventry Training Centre. This course is also known as Moving and Assisting People Train the Trainer and is designed for you with relevant health and social care experience who need to train others safely and confidently, within clear governance arrangements.

After purchase, you will receive immediate access to the online learning component through ComplyPlus™ LMS. This covers core moving-and-handling knowledge, trainer responsibilities, safer-handling principles, risk assessment, assessment requirements, and quality-assurance expectations. Once you have completed the online learning and knowledge assessment, you can attend the Coventry practical session to demonstrate competence, complete practical assessment activities and deliver a short micro-teach.

This course supports trainers and organisations in building internal moving-and-handling training capacity while maintaining clear role boundaries, evidence of trainer competence, and quality assurance arrangements.

No certificate is issued after completion of the online element alone. Certification is issued only after successful completion of all required online, practical assessment and micro-teach elements.

Important: When attending the practical session, please bring your booking confirmation, a valid form of photo identification, and your certificate from the online training course, either printed or available on your mobile device. Please arrive at least 15 minutes before the course starts and wear suitable clothing for practical activities.

Course content

This People Moving and Handling Train the Trainer course covers:

Introduction to moving and handling people training

Moving and assisting people: terminology, scope and workplace application

Trainer roles, responsibilities and boundaries

Relevant legislation, regulation and best practice guidance

Employer and employee responsibilities

Moving and handling risk factors

Safer handling principles and ergonomic approaches

Dynamic risk assessment before moving and assisting people

Person-centred handling, dignity, consent and communication

Functional mobility and promoting independence

Use of moving and handling equipment, where relevant

Unsafe or controversial techniques to avoid

Adult learning principles and inclusive training methods

Planning structured moving and handling training sessions

Demonstrating practical skills safely

Observing learners and correcting unsafe techniques

Assessing knowledge and practical competence

Giving constructive feedback

Micro-teach planning and delivery

Training records, competence sign-off and quality assurance

Maintaining trainer competence and CPD.

Who is this course for?

This Moving and Handling People Train the Trainer Level 3 course is suitable for:

In-house trainers

Experienced health and social care professionals looking to become trainers

Existing trainers who want to deliver People Moving and Handling training

Independent training providers

Subject matter experts

Senior care workers, team leaders and supervisors

Learning and development staff

Care home, domiciliary care and supported living trainers

Nurses, healthcare assistants and clinical support workers with relevant experience

Clinical leads or practice educators, where relevant

Managers responsible for staff training and competence

Organisations developing internal moving-and-handling training capacity.

Learners should have relevant experience in moving and handling people or moving and assisting people, and should work within their competence, role, and organisational policies.

Course aims

This Moving and Handling People Train the Trainer course aims to:

Prepare learners to deliver people moving and handling training that is safe, up to date, person-centred, and aligned with relevant legislation, guidance, professional expectations, and workplace requirements

Develop trainer-level competence in assessing learning needs, preparing training materials, teaching, demonstrating, observing, assessing and recording learner competence

Support trainers and organisations to evidence trainer competence, practical assessment, training quality and compliance with governance and safer handling expectations.

Learning objectives

This People Moving and Handling Train the Trainer course will:

Explain the trainer's role, responsibilities, boundaries and scope of practice

introduce relevant legislation, guidance, standards and workplace expectations linked to people moving and handling

Support learners in planning structured, inclusive and outcome-focused moving and handling training sessions

Demonstrate how to teach, observe an

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