Level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (RQF)

Level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (RQF)

16 years front line experience and 12 years teaching Ambulance First Responders.

This qualification is for people who are required to hold a regulated and nationally recognised Level 3 prehospital care qualification and for those who intend (or have a specific responsibility at work,  or in voluntary and community activities) to provide prehospital emergency care as a Level 3 First Response Emergency Care (FREC®3) provider.

It is ideal for those looking to equip themselves with lifesaving skills to prepare them to be amongst  the first to arrive at a scene of an emergency, including first responders such as police officers,  firefighters, emergency medical services and search and rescue personnel.

It is also ideal for those providing event medical cover or roles such as First Responders, Door Supervisors, Close Protection Operatives and Security Guards, as well as those working in high-risk environments including the military, power stations, offshore renewable energy, agriculture and manufacturing settings. FREC®3 providers work in a wide range of workplaces and environments providing prehospital emergency care, having direct contact with service users or others and providing high quality and 

compassionate care.

Face to face

• Role and responsibilities of a first responder
• Assess a scene, summon assistance and initially manage an incident.
• Assess and manage patients with life-threating and non life-threatening illness and injuries
• Assess, manage and maintain a patient’s airway
• Manage an unresponsive patient who is not breathing normally.
• Use and maintenance of an AED
• Oxygen therapy.
• Mechanism of injury
• Assess, treat and manage trauma.
• Life threatening bleeding
• Chest injuries
• Bleeding
• Circulation issues
• Eye injuries
• Burns and scalds
• Poisoning
• Head, spinal and musculoskeletal injuries
• Move and handle people in an emergency
• Assessing patients
• Breathing difficulties
• Major illnesses
• Unresponsive patients
• Environmental factors

This qualification is regulated in the UK and awarded by Qualsafe.

On successful completion of the course students will receive a Qualsafe level 3 Award in First Response Emergency Care (RQF) (FREC®3) that is valid for three years from the date of achievement. 

37 hours (5 days)

The practical and theoretical assessment is ongoing throughout the duration of the course.

6 students to 1 trainer

Learners must be at least 17 years old on the first day of the training.

This qualification is valid for a period of 3 years. The Learner needs to retake the qualification before the certificate expiry date to remain qualified. If the FREC®3 provider (first responder) does not retrain or requalify before the expiry date on their current certificate they are no longer considered competent to act as a FREC®3 provider.

Requalification training should be delivered in no less than 21 hours (3 days) excluding breaks.

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This course can be held at your location so that the content are tailored to your requirements and environment.

We also run open courses - please see our course bookings for the dates of the next course.

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