With the aim of ensuring that 100% of our Juice Nursery staff are first aid trained, members of our team are currently being put through our paces by Paul from First Responder Ltd, who specialise in delivering paediatric first aid courses. It is our policy here are Juice, that ALL our staff are enrolled in The Paediatric First Aid award, which they must then resit every 3 years. The course meets the requirements of Ofsted, following the latest guidelines from the Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) which we believe helps reassure the parents of the children in our care.
The course is an intensive, 12 hours long, covering everything staff would need to know to help a sick, injured or ill child, prior to the arrival of the emergency services. We have been practising our CPR skills, learning to use an AED, finding out more on what to do if confronted with a choking child, as well as getting to grips with bandages & the recovery position! Hope we never need any of it, but our aim is to ensure we are all well prepared.