People Moving and Handling Train the Trainer - Level 3
About this Event
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 and photo ID, 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 and assess safer moving and handling skills
- Prepare learners to deliver a short micro-teach session and respond to assessor feedback
- Reinforce documentation, competence sign-off, quality assurance and training governance requirements.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this Moving and Handling People Train the Trainer course, learners will be able to:
- Explain key moving and handling principles, responsibilities and safe practice requirements
- Describe relevant legal, regulatory, professional and workplace guidance
- Apply safer handling principles, ergonomic approaches and dynamic risk assessment methods
- Demonstrate safe, dignified moving and assisting techniques that support mobility and independence
- Demonstrate safe use of relevant equipment, including hoists, slings, slide sheets and transfer aids, where available and appropriate
- Plan and deliver a structured moving-and-handling training session for adult learners
- Observe learners and correct unsafe or ineffective techniques
- Use inclusive, learner-centred teaching approaches
- Assess learner knowledge and practical competence using appropriate methods
- Provide constructive feedback that supports improvement
- Deliver a structured micro-teach session on a people moving and handling topic
- Complete attendance, assessment, competence and training records accurately
- Explain how training records support governance, quality assurance and compliance evidence.
Course details
Course title - People Moving and Handling Train the Trainer Level 3
Also known as - Moving and Assisting People Train the Trainer, Moving and Handling People Trainer Course, Patient Moving and Handling Trainer Course
Format - Blended Train the Trainer Course
Delivery model - Online learning + Coventry practical session + practical assessment + micro-teach
Online access - Immediate access after purchase through ComplyPlus™ LMS
Online Component - Core subject knowledge, trainer responsibilities, safer handling practice, assessment and quality assurance
Practical session - Face-to-face trainer development and practical assessment at our Coventry Training Centre
Micro-teach - Short assessed teaching activity delivered during the practical session
Assessment - Online knowledge assessment, practical competence checks, micro-teach, trainer/assessor observation and feedback
Certification - CPD-accredited certificate issued after successful completion of all required elements
Certificate validity - 3 years, unless earlier refresher training is required
Trainer Resources - Trainer Pack included after successful completion
Venue - The Mandatory Training Group's Coventry Training Centre, HDTI Building, Coventry University Technology Park, Swift Road, Coventry, CV1 2TT
Price - £395 + VAT per person
Group bookings - Available for employers, subject to learner numbers, equipment, venue suitability and trainer availability.
People Moving and Handling trainer resources included
On successful completion, you will receive a trainer pack to support structured, consistent and auditable training delivery.
The trainer pack includes:
- Training needs assessment template
- Sample lesson plan
- Training session structure
- Editable trainer slides and prompts
- Practical assessment checklist
- Micro-teach guidance
- Attendance register template
- Feedback form template
- Competence sign-off record
- Training report template
- Guidance on adapting training to local policy
- Access to ComplyPlus™ TMS for 365 days.
These resources are designed to support safe and consistent delivery of People Moving and Handling training within the learner's organisation or independent practice.
Assessment and certification
Assessment includes:
- Multiple-choice online knowledge assessment with a minimum pass mark of 80%
- Practical skills assessment
- Scenario-based activities, where relevant
- Micro-teach delivery
- Trainer/assessor observation
- Feedback and competence sign-off.
Certification includes:
- CPD-accredited People Moving and Handling Train the Trainer certificate
- Certificate issued only after successful completion of all required elements
- Confirmation that the learner has completed the online learning, online assessment, face-to-face practical assessment, micro-teach and competence sign-off at The Mandatory Training Group’s Coventry Training Centre
- External review and accreditation by the CPD Certification Service.
This is not an Ofqual-regulated qualification unless specifically stated.
Refresher training
The certificate for this People Moving and Handling Train-the-Trainer course is valid for 3 years unless a different validity period applies.
Earlier refresher training may be required if:
- Relevant legislation or guidance changes
- Workplace policy or local procedures change
- The learner’s role or training responsibilities change
- The employer requires more frequent updates
- The learner has not delivered training for a significant period
- Practical competence needs reassessment.
How this blended course works
Part 1: Online learning
After purchase, you will receive access to the online knowledge component via ComplyPlus™ LMS. This covers moving and handling principles, trainer responsibilities, risk assessment, safer practice, assessment principles and course-specific knowledge required before attending the practical session.
You must complete the online course and pass the online knowledge assessment before attending the face-to-face practical session.
Part 2: Practical assessment and micro-teach
During the practical session at our Coventry Training Centre, you will demonstrate subject-specific practical competence, complete trainer-led activities, practise delivery skills and deliver a short micro-teach session.
The practical session includes observation, feedback and competence sign-off by an experienced trainer/assessor.
Classroom practical session
During the People Moving and Handling face-to-face session, you will complete practical trainer development activities, including:
- Review of key trainer responsibilities and safer handling principles
- Subject-specific practical demonstrations
- Dynamic risk assessment before practical handling activities
- Supervised moving and assisting practice
- Person-centred communication and dignity in handling tasks
- Use of relevant moving and handling equipment, where available and appropriate
- Scenario-based teaching and assessment activities
- Observation and correction of learner technique
- Micro-teach delivery
- Practical competence checks
- Trainer/assessor feedback and competence sign-off
- Discussion of documentation, evidence and quality assurance.
Coventry Training Centre
The practical session takes place at:
The Mandatory Training Group, HDTI Building, Coventry University Technology Park, Swift Road, CV1 2TT
Telephone: 02476 100090
Our fully equipped training centre is within walking distance of 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, documentation, and assessment checklists.
Group and employer bookings
We support organisations that need to build internal Moving and Handling People training capacity across regulated and workplace settings.
Group bookings may be suitable for:
- Care homes
- Domiciliary care agencies
- Supported living services
- Healthcare clinics
- GP practices
- Dental practices
- Staffing agencies
- Schools, colleges and early years providers, where relevant
- Charities and voluntary organisations
- Workplace teams require safer people handling training.
Group training is subject to trainer availability, learner numbers, equipment requirements, venue suitability and quality assurance arrangements.
Agenda
🕑: 09:00 AM - 04:30 PM
People Moving and Handling Train the Trainer - Level 3
Host: The Mandatory Training Group
Info: A blended train the trainer course covering online learning, people moving and handling practical assessment, trainer delivery skills, micro-teach and competence sign-off.
Where is it happening?
Event Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 507.65
