Become a First Aid Trainer

How to become a contractor with First Aid Action

Interested in being a First Aid Trainer ?

First Aid Action is a Registered Training Organisation (31668) offering Nationally Accredited courses in First Aid.

We are offering suitably qualified and interested First Aid instructors to become contractors with our rapidly expanding training organisation.

Becoming a contractor with First Aid Action offers business owners a great opportunity to expand their scope and offer clients a professional approach to First Aid training. The delivery structure and format of each course offered by First Aid Action is informative and highly interactive.

To become a contractor means you will be set up as a First Aid Training Provider, without the time and expense of developing your own training and assessment materials. We have a fixed fee per certificate. This allows you to plan your business activity and associated costs as a contractor.

You will need to attend an induction / training session with First Aid Action to develop the necessary presentation skills required in this burgeoning field of Registered Training.

By the end of the induction you will have achieved the following outcomes:

Understanding of relevant National Training Package or accredited curriculum, including:
- Overview of training package, packaging and qualification requirements
- Overview of Assessment Guidelines and relevant units/modules
- Assessment instruments
- Information on evidence requirements for compliance with AQTF Standard 7.
An overview of competency-based training and assessment
An overview of Student administration
An overview of Student support provisions
An overview of trainer/assessor support provisions
- Course learning materials
- Assessment instruments

Interested in becoming a first aid trainer

What do you need to become a Contractor with First Aid Action ?

What you need

First Aid Action will require the following accreditation

Copies of your Cert IV in Training and Assessment
Copies of your Public liability insurance and professional indemnity insurance – we require a minimum of $20m Public Liability and a minimum of $5m Professional Indemnity.
Copies of an Up to date resume
Copies of all First Aid certificates – you must be accredited to teach
Evidence of experience in a teaching
Evidence of experience in a medical or first aid field of employment.

What you will recieve

Trainer Login to CourseSales.com – this is the Student Management System (SMS) we run
Student Booklets of the courses to be conducted
Assessor Guides
Lesson Plans
Copies of the Knowledge Questions – these are completed online through EdApp and marked automatically and students sent a Certificate of Completion
All teaching resources – PowerPoint presentations and PDF Information sheets
Copies of all forms required – Attendance Registers, Practical Checklists etc

Requirements

You are required to provide all your own training equipment – adult, child and infant mannequin’s, training defibrillator (AED), EpiPen, Asthma puffer and spacer, single use bandages and single used triangular bandages. Due to COVID-19 we now require all participants to have their own bandages and only share the other training equipment as 1 between 2 people all training aids have been thoroughly sanitized between each person. You are responsible for your own printing costs for assessments etc. We use an online manual and my admin staff have developed an online resource manual to assist with answering questions which are all online (some classroom assessment will be required but this is mostly practical).