People Moving and Handling - Level 2

Book our People Moving and Handling Level 2 course for £59.99 + VAT per person.

This classroom-based practical training course is delivered at The Mandatory Training Group's Coventry Training Centre. The session covers essential people-moving and handling theory, trainer-led demonstrations, supervised practice, scenario-based discussions, and competence checks.

This course supports you in applying safer moving and handling principles, dynamic risk assessment, person-centred support, and the safe use of handling equipment through realistic scenarios, supervised practice, and feedback from an experienced trainer.

It is suitable for health and social care staff who need practical, role-relevant people-moving and handling training and evidence of competence for workplace compliance, refresher requirements, or employer training records.

Your digital CPD certificate is issued after successful completion of the classroom session and practical assessment.

This Moving and Handling People course covers:

• Principles of safer moving and handling
• Moving and assisting people safely and with dignity
• Relevant legislation, regulation and workplace responsibilities
• Moving and handling risk factors
• Dynamic risk assessment before handling activities
• Person-centred handling plans and safer systems of work
• Communication, consent, dignity and independence
• Functional mobility and safer positioning
• Use of handling aids and equipment, where appropriate
• Unsafe or controversial techniques to avoid
• Reporting concerns, incidents and near misses
• Practical scenarios and competence checks.
  

This People Moving and Handling course is suitable for health and social care staff, including:

• Care assistants and support workers
• Healthcare assistants and clinical support workers
• Nurses and agency healthcare workers
• Allied health professionals
• Domiciliary care and home care staff
• Supported living and complex care staff
• Care home, nursing home and hospice teams
• Staff who assist people with mobility, transfers or repositioning
• Health and social care staff requiring CSTF-aligned Level 2 moving and handling training.
  

The aims of this Moving and Handling People course are to:

• Develop learners' knowledge, confidence and practical competence to move and assist people safely, legally and with dignity in health and social care settings
• Support learners to recognise moving and handling risks, apply safer handling principles, use equipment appropriately and promote person-centred approaches that protect staff and people receiving care.
  

This People Moving and Handling course will:

• Explain key moving and handling legislation, regulations and workplace responsibilities
• Support learners to recognise risks affecting staff and people receiving care
• Reinforce safer moving and handling principles, including posture, ergonomics and dynamic risk assessment
• Demonstrate person-centred moving and handling approaches that support dignity, comfort, independence and mobility
• Provide supervised practical experience using relevant moving and handling techniques and equipment
• Reinforce employer and employee responsibilities for safe systems of work, reporting and escalation
• Support evidence of CSTF-aligned training, assessment and workplace competence.
  

By the end of this Moving and Handling People course, learners will be able to:

• Identify moving and handling risk factors
• Explain relevant employer and employee responsibilities
• Apply safer moving and handling principles, including posture and ergonomic approaches
• Carry out a dynamic risk assessment before moving or assisting a person
• Select suitable risk controls, resources or equipment following risk assessment
• Demonstrate safe, dignified approaches that promote independence and functional mobility
• Apply person-centred risk assessment principles when choosing safer handling techniques
• Demonstrate practical moving and handling skills relevant to their role
• Demonstrate safe use of relevant equipment, including hoists, slings, slide sheets, transfer aids and chairs, where available and appropriate.
  

Course title - People Moving and Handling - Level 2

Also known as - Moving and Assisting People, Patient Moving and Handling, Moving and Handling People

Format - Classroom-based practical course

Practical session - Face-to-face training and assessment in Coventry

Course duration - 3 hours

Price - £59.99 + VAT per person

Venue - The Mandatory Training Group’s Coventry Training Centre, HDTI Building, Coventry University Technology Park, Swift Road, Coventry, CV1 2TT

Accreditation - CPD Certification Service (CPDUK)

Certification - Digital CPD certificate after successful completion

Certificate validity - 2 years

Framework alignment - Aligned with Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) Moving and Handling Level 2 requirements, supporting CQC, HSE and safer handling practice expectations

Group bookings - Available for employers, subject to venue suitability, equipment and trainer availability.

You are assessed through:

• Active participation in the classroom session
• Trainer-led questioning and discussion
• Observation of safer moving and handling techniques
• Demonstration of safe posture, body mechanics and practical handling principles
• Application of dynamic risk assessment and person-centred risk controls
• Safe use of relevant moving and handling equipment, where applicable
• Competence checks using practical scenarios, techniques and equipment.

Certification is issued only after the required classroom activities and practical assessment elements have been successfully completed.

• This People Moving and Handling - Level 2 course is externally reviewed and accredited by the CPD Certification Service (CPDUK)
• On successful completion, you will be able to download a digital CPD certificate from your ComplyPlus™ LMS account
• The certificate is valid for 2 years unless refresher training is required earlier.
• Earlier refresher training may be required where there are changes to legislation, safer handling guidance, employer policy, equipment, working practices, risk assessment, learner role, workplace risks, service-user needs or following incident learning.

• This is a classroom-based People Moving and Handling - Level 2 course.
• Your CPD-accredited certificate is issued only after you have attended the face-to-face session, participated in the required activities and successfully completed the practical competence checks.
• After successful completion, you will be able to download your digital certificate from your ComplyPlus™ LMS account.

Purchase your people moving and handling course through Eventbrite or The Mandatory Training Group website.

Select a suitable date from the available Coventry Training Centre course calendar.

You will attend a 3-hour face-to-face session at our Coventry Training Centre. The session includes trainer-led teaching, demonstrations, discussion, supervised practice and competence checks.

Your digital CPD certificate is issued after successful completion of the course. You will be able to download your certificate from your ComplyPlus™ LMS account.

• During the People Moving and Handling - Level 2 practical session, you will complete supervised activities, demonstrations and competence checks covering:
• Safer moving and handling principles
• Dynamic risk assessment before practical activity
• Person-centred communication before, during and after handling tasks
• Safe posture, positioning and movement
• Promoting independence and functional mobility
• Moving, assisting, transferring and repositioning people safely
• Use of handling aids and equipment, where available and appropriate
• Hoists, slings, slide sheets, transfer aids, chairs and beds, where relevant
• Unsafe or controversial techniques to avoid
• Practical care scenarios
• Trainer feedback and competence-based observation.

The practical session takes place at:

The Mandatory Training Group

HDTI Building

Coventry University Technology Park

Swift Road

Coventry

CV1 2TT

Telephone: 02476 100090

The centre is located within Coventry University Technology Park, close to Coventry city centre and Coventry railway station, with free on-site parking available for learners.

Practical sessions are delivered in small groups using relevant moving-and-handling equipment for demonstrations, practice, assessment, and competence sign-off.

We also offer group People Moving and Handling training for organisations at their own premises, subject to venue suitability, location, risk assessment, availability of suitable equipment and trainer availability.

This option may be suitable for:

• Care homes, nursing homes and residential care providers
• Domiciliary care and supported living services
• Independent healthcare providers
• Recruitment and staffing agencies supplying health and care staff
• Organisations requiring practical safer people moving and handling training for teams
• Workplace teams need an auditable, practical competence assessment.

Training can be adapted to reflect local moving-and-handling policies, workplace procedures, risk assessments, available equipment, staff responsibilities, service-user needs, and role-specific safer-handling risks.

• Practical classroom training at our Coventry Training Centre
• Free on-site parking
• CPD-accredited certificate
• Certificate issued after successful completion
• Certificate downloadable from the learner account
• Small-group practical training
• Experienced trainers and assessors
• Relevant moving and handling equipment used for demonstrations and competence checks
• Suitable for workplace compliance evidence
• Group training available for organisations.

Info: A 3-hour classroom-based People Moving and Handling course covering safer handling principles, dynamic risk assessment, person-centred support, use of handling equipment and practical competence checks.

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HDTI Building, Swift Road, Coventry, United Kingdom

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