Training Courses in Greater Manchester

Accredited first aid, health and safety and social care training, taught at your workplace anywhere across the ten boroughs.

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Prima Cura Training delivers accredited workplace training across Greater Manchester: first aid, health and safety, and health and social care courses, taught on-site at your premises in all ten boroughs, for groups of up to 12 learners. We’re based in north Manchester, the trainer comes to you, and every quote covers everything.

We don’t cover Greater Manchester from a distance. Steph lives here, runs the business from here and delivers most of the training herself, which is why a course in a Bury primary school looks nothing like a course in a Stockport gallery or an IT company in Old Trafford. Same certificate, completely different day.

Training in Greater Manchester at a glance Courses: over 60 titles across first aid, health and safety, and health and social care. Where: on-site at your premises in all ten Greater Manchester boroughs, up to 12 learners per course. Delivery: face to face at your workplace, blended, or theory online through our e-learning portal. Price: every course is quoted individually, and the quote covers everything. No hidden fees. Accreditation: first aid through WorkSafe, FAIB or Qualsafe. Wider courses are CPD Assessed, and we also hold AOHT and HTN accreditation. Led by: Stephanie Austin, with over 25 years in health and social care and over 15 years delivering training. Steph delivers most Greater Manchester courses herself. Reputation: over 100 five-star Google reviews, learner satisfaction consistently averages over 98%, and Steph won Health and Wellbeing Leader at the Biz Women Awards 2025. Get a quote: 0333 999 8783 or info@primacuratraining.co.uk. Steph replies within one working day.

Why I moved Prima Cura Training to Manchester

I’m not from here. I grew up in Surrey, and Prima Cura was already three years old when I moved the whole business north in 2018.

The real reason was love. My partner and I had done long distance for six years, and there comes a point where you either accept that as normal or you do something about it. I did something about it. What I didn’t expect was to fall for the city as well. Surrey is where I’m from. Manchester is where I chose to be.

Greater Manchester is a much bigger regional hub than anywhere I’d worked before, and the sheer spread of businesses here still catches me out. In one week I can be in a primary school in Bury, a care home in north Manchester, an IT company in Old Trafford and somebody’s front room in Salford, teaching their personal assistants how to move them safely. And then there are the people. The north wants you to do well. There’s a warmth in how business gets done up here that I never quite found in the south, and eight years in, it hasn’t worn off.

My first Greater Manchester booking was a care home about a mile from my front door. I contacted the owner of the chain, Unity Homes, explained who I was and what I could offer, and got a yes from someone who had no reason to have heard of me. Prima Cura supplied the training for their homes for the next 18 months, until they built their own in-house training team, which is exactly what a well-run care group should do. That’s still how most of the work arrives. Somebody rings, we talk about what they actually need, and I turn up.

Which training courses can we deliver in Greater Manchester?

Every course below is delivered at your premises, taught face to face, and assessed practically where the course requires it. If a different course suits your team better than the one you asked about, we’ll say so at the enquiry stage rather than after you’ve booked.

First aid

• Emergency First Aid at Work (1 day): CPR, defibrillator use, choking, severe bleeding, shock and the unresponsive casualty. The usual choice for lower-hazard workplaces, and there’s a version with extra time on life-threatening bleeding.
• First Aid at Work (3 days, or blended): everything in EFAW plus a wider range of injuries and illnesses, including fractures, burns and head injuries. For higher-hazard or larger workplaces.
• First Aid at Work Requalification (2 days): for FAW first aiders renewing before their certificate runs out.
• Basic Life Support and AED (half day): three focused hours of CPR and defibrillator practice, and a practical way to deliver the annual refresher HSE strongly recommends.
• Paediatric First Aid (12 hours, classroom or blended) and Emergency Paediatric First Aid: the full paediatric certificate for early years settings working under the EYFS framework, plus the 6-hour emergency version for staff supporting a fully qualified paediatric first aider.
• Emergency First Aid for Schools: first aid built around the school day, from the playground to the PE hall.
• Allergy Awareness (Benedict’s Law), Anaphylaxis Awareness and Asthma Awareness and Management: separate courses for the allergy and medical conditions duties that first aid training alone doesn’t cover.

There’s much more detail on our first aid training in Manchester page, including what each course covers, how many first aiders your workplace needs and our published starting price for Emergency First Aid at Work.

Health and safety

• Fire Marshal and Fire Safety Awareness: for the person who takes charge in an evacuation, including sweep routes, roll call and what the fire risk assessment actually asks of them.
• Risk Assessing and Risk Assessing in Health and Social Care: the legal duty, how to write one that holds up, and how to review it when something changes.
• Manual Handling (Objects): practical technique for lifting, carrying and moving loads, taught in the space your team actually works in.
• Health and Safety Awareness, Level 2 Health and Safety and COSHH and RIDDOR Awareness: the general duties, and what has to be reported and recorded.
• Food Hygiene Awareness and Food Hygiene and Safety Level 2: for food businesses, kitchens and anyone handling or packing food.
• Complaints and Conflict Resolution, and Welfare and Vulnerability Engagement (WAVE) for licensed premises and retail staff: for front-of-house teams, bars, venues and shops.

Health and social care

• Care Certificate and induction: new starters assessed against all 16 standards by TAQA-qualified assessors. Our Care Certificate guide explains what each standard covers.
• Delegated healthcare and clinical skills: PEG and PEJ enteral feeding, catheter care, colostomy and stoma care, tracheostomy care and ventilation, epilepsy with emergency medication, safe medication administration, diabetes awareness and dysphagia awareness.
• Moving and Positioning People: taught with the hoists, slings and room layout your team actually uses.
• Mandatory and awareness training: adult safeguarding, safeguarding children, the Mental Capacity Act and DoLS, dementia awareness, learning disability awareness, autism awareness, infection prevention and control, and nutrition and hydration.
• First Aid for Mental Health Level 2: for care and non-care employers, plus Mental Health Awareness for the care sector and Drug and Alcohol Awareness.

Our full course list runs to more than 60 titles, and if the one you need isn’t on it, ask.

Questions Greater Manchester employers ask us

Who do we train across Greater Manchester, and what do they need?

Greater Manchester isn’t one economy. It’s ten boroughs with very different working days inside them, and the training has to match the day. Here’s the work we actually do here, and who we do it with.

Care homes, supported living and domiciliary care

Care is the biggest part of what we do in Greater Manchester. Regulation 18 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014 requires CQC-registered providers to make sure staff get the training they need to do their job, and inspectors look at it through the five key questions in CQC’s assessment framework. The evidence has to show competence, not attendance.

We deliver mandatory training and the Care Certificate across all 16 standards. The standards were updated in March 2025, when Skills for Care, NHS England and Skills for Health added a sixteenth standard covering learning disability and autism awareness. Separately, the Oliver McGowan code of practice became final on 6 September 2025, setting out how CQC-registered providers meet the learning disability and autism training requirement introduced by the Health and Care Act 2022. Steph holds the full TAQA suite and carries out Care Certificate assessing herself.

For Cygnet Care we’ve delivered Emergency First Aid at Work, substance misuse training and epilepsy with emergency medication. We’re a long-standing preferred supplier to Your Support Matters, a community interest company in Ramsbottom, for both care and first aid training. We’ve also helped a care home rebuild its training after an unannounced inspection found gaps, and retrained a nursing home’s whole team, manager included, in moving and positioning after a safeguarding incident. Both stories are on our care home training page.

We do a lot of fire safety work in care settings too. Across one group of homes we delivered fire safety awareness and evacuation equipment training, including evac chair, and wrote up what we found in nine of them: staff who couldn’t explain the evacuation plan, equipment that didn’t suit the people living there, drills that proved nothing, and generic personal emergency evacuation plans. Every one of those gaps was fixable, and the write-up is on our blog. If the people you support live in a high-rise block, the Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025 have applied since 6 April 2026 as well.

Schools, academies and early years

We’re the preferred first aid training supplier for Oak Learning Partnership in Bury, working across their primary and secondary schools. Staff have completed Paediatric First Aid, including the blended version, Emergency Paediatric First Aid and Emergency First Aid at Work, delivered in line with the EYFS statutory framework and Ofsted expectations. The scenarios are built around each school’s age group and building layout, because a reception class and a secondary PE hall aren’t the same problem.

At Elms Bank in Whitefield we added first aid guidance on PEG feeding, tracheostomy care and catheter care, because that’s what the staff there actually deal with. We also run Benedict’s Law allergy training for the partnership as a separate course on the same day as the first aid, agreed with their learning lead to meet the Department for Education’s allergy safety in schools guidance, in force since 1 September 2026. First aid training on its own doesn’t meet that duty, and our Benedict’s Law guide for schools explains why. We use the first aid training as recognition of prior learning for the overlapping practical elements, adrenaline auto-injectors and nasal adrenaline spray among them, and spend the extra time on asthma and on what the guidance actually asks for. Steph reordered the partnership’s first aid training so the overlapping elements are taught together rather than twice.

The work has gone beyond courses. We have helped the schools update their first aid guidance, including acting on the government warning about contaminated alcohol-free wipes, and tightened up their parent notification and parental consent processes.

People who employ their own personal assistants

Not every care arrangement in Greater Manchester runs through an agency or a registered service. A lot of people across the region employ their own personal assistants through a Personal Health Budget or direct payments, and they’re responsible for making sure those PAs are trained.

Steph knows this from the inside as a former member of the Skills for Care Personal Health Budgets Steering Committee. We train Personal Health Budget and direct payment holders and their PAs in their own homes across Greater Manchester, built around the actual hoist, the actual transfer and the actual layout of the house. There’s a worked example of PA training in a Salford home on our Salford page. Through Your Support Matters we’ve also delivered Basic Life Support and Emergency First Aid at Work to PAs and individual employers on open courses in Ramsbottom and central Bury, funded by Skills for Care at the time, with sessions adapted for home settings and for wheelchair users.

Trades, workshops and facilities

Kieren Robinson runs BeeSpoke Carpentry in Manchester. He booked Emergency First Aid at Work for all his staff, then came back for the three-day First Aid at Work course for himself and his core team. A couple of months later, on a Tuesday in November 2023, a young woman went into cardiac arrest in a Manchester car park. Kieren started CPR, used the defibrillator, and she was awake and talking by the time she left in the ambulance. He’s a carpenter, not a paramedic. He remembered his training when it counted, and his full story is on our blog.

We’ve also worked with Kieren on the health and safety side, helping with the risk assessments for his workshop and machinery and delivering health and safety awareness and risk assessing training. The Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require every employer to assess the risks their work creates, and in a workshop that means the machines, the dust, the noise and the people, not a form downloaded off the internet.

For Cleaning Ventures, whose head office is on Arundel Street in M15, we delivered Emergency First Aid at Work across the whole organisation, with the CEO and directors training alongside supervisors and cleaners. Nobody sat that one out.

Offices, professional services and tech

Lower hazard doesn’t mean no duty. The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 apply to every employer, whatever the sector, and the right level of cover comes from a first aid needs assessment rather than a headcount rule of thumb. Our workplace first aid guide walks through it.

Linten Technologies, the B2B IT services company on Chester Road in Old Trafford, has had Fire Marshal, First Aid for Mental Health and Emergency First Aid at Work from us. For People Matters HR in Ramsbottom we adapted Emergency First Aid at Work for an office, then advised them on what belongs in a first aid risk assessment, so they could pass that on to their own clients. That happens more than you’d think. HR and facilities people are often the ones asked to sort training out, and the question behind the booking is usually bigger than the booking.

Independent venues, galleries and food businesses

Underbanks Gallery sits in Stockport’s historic Underbanks, holds a premises licence and runs events into the evening. We delivered risk assessing training there and worked with the owner on getting the risk assessment ready for an exhibition, which is a very different document once you add alcohol and a crowd. For licensed venues in the same position, our WAVE course for licensed premises is worth a look alongside first aid.

We’ve also delivered food hygiene training to a Greater Manchester hamper business. Under Regulation (EC) 852/2004, food handlers must be supervised, instructed or trained in food hygiene in a way that suits their work, and a small team packing and posting food has real obligations even without a kitchen.

On-site, blended or online: how the training gets delivered

On-site face to face is how most Greater Manchester training runs, because practical skills have to be demonstrated and assessed in person, and because your own building is the best classroom you’ll ever get. Blended delivery puts the theory online and keeps the practical session on-site, which is how our blended First Aid at Work and blended Paediatric First Aid courses work. Fully online courses through our e-learning portal suit awareness topics, refreshers and the theory part of a wider programme.

The rule we work to is simple. Anything that has to be assessed with your hands, such as CPR, adrenaline auto-injectors, moving and positioning or evacuation equipment, needs a trainer in the room with you. Anything that’s about knowledge and understanding can sit online, and for a team spread across sites or shifts that’s often the only way it gets done at all. Tell us what your rota looks like and we’ll build the mix around it.

What does training cost in Greater Manchester?

Every Prima Cura course in Greater Manchester is quoted individually, based on how many people need training, where you are and what your team actually does. One price covers the lot: trainer travel anywhere in Greater Manchester, certificates, course materials and ongoing support after the course. No hidden fees, no add-ons.

We also build your own policies into the day. Your first aid policy, your accident reporting procedure, your recording systems, so your team learns how this works in your organisation rather than in the abstract. Got a small team and worried about the cost? Tell us how many people you have and we’ll find the most cost-effective way to get them trained. If you want a benchmark before you pick up the phone, our first aid training in Manchester page publishes our starting price for Emergency First Aid at Work.

Get a quote for your team Fill out the contact form, or call 0333 999 8783. Email: info@primacuratraining.co.uk

Before you book: accreditation, certificates and who turns up

Why Greater Manchester employers choose Prima Cura Training

Prima Cura Training was founded in 2015 by Stephanie Austin and has been based in Manchester since 2018. Steph has over 25 years in health and social care and over 15 years delivering training. She’s a former member of the Skills for Care Personal Health Budgets Steering Committee and holds the full TAQA assessing and quality assurance suite, up to Level 4 Leading Internal Quality Assurance. She carries out Care Certificate assessing herself, and where selected associates assess, she quality assures their decisions.

Before Prima Cura, Steph ran the domiciliary care side of a family care company. That’s where the interest in this work started, and it’s the reason the care training on this page comes from someone who has run a service, not just taught about one.

Learner satisfaction consistently averages over 98%, measured through quarterly feedback forms and customer surveys. We have over 100 five-star Google reviews. Steph won Health and Wellbeing Leader at the Biz Women Awards 2025, was a finalist for the Female Entrepreneur Award at the North Manchester International Women’s Day Business Awards 2026, held at FC United, and Prima Cura Training was named a finalist in the Coach, Mentor or Trainer category of the 2026 Female Business Awards, a story covered by ManchesterWorld.

We publish our commitment to quality and compliance and our safeguarding policy, so you can see how we work before you book.

Which areas of Greater Manchester do we cover?

All ten boroughs, with trainer travel included in the quote wherever you are.

• Manchester: the city centre, the northern suburbs, Didsbury, Chorlton and Wythenshawe. See our page on workplace training in Manchester city centre.
• Salford: Salford Quays and MediaCityUK, Eccles, Swinton, Walkden, Worsley and Irlam. See our training courses in Salford and our page on first aid training in Salford.
• Stockport: the town centre and the Underbanks, Marple, Cheadle, Bramhall and Hazel Grove. See our training courses in Stockport.
• Trafford: Old Trafford, Stretford, Sale, Urmston and Altrincham.
• Bury: the town centre, Ramsbottom, Whitefield, Prestwich and Radcliffe.
• Bolton: the town centre, Farnworth, Horwich and Westhoughton.
• Oldham: the town centre, Chadderton, Royton and the Saddleworth villages.
• Rochdale: the town centre, Middleton, Heywood and Littleborough.
• Tameside: Ashton-under-Lyne, Hyde, Denton, Droylsden and Stalybridge.
• Wigan: the town centre, Leigh, Atherton and Hindley.

Running a school or academy? Our page on first aid training for schools across Greater Manchester and the North West goes into the school and early years requirements in more detail. Work in a care setting? Our page on first aid training for health and social care settings covers first aid built around care environments. Outside Greater Manchester, we deliver across the wider North West and the Midlands, and nationally across England, including London and Surrey.

Book training in Greater Manchester

Tell us how many people need training, where you are and what your team does day to day. Steph will come back to you within one working day with the right course and a clear, all-in price. No hard sell, and if a different course fits better, we’ll say so.

Call: 0333 999 8783  |  Email: info@primacuratraining.co.uk

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Written by Stephanie Austin, Founder and Lead Trainer at Prima Cura Training | Last reviewed: September 2026 | Next review: March 2027

Important information: training reflects current UK legislation and guidance at the time of delivery, including HSE guidance, CQC requirements, Skills for Care guidance and the Resuscitation Council UK 2025 guidelines. Employers should carry out their own first aid needs assessment and risk assessments. Clinical skills training supports, and doesn’t replace, the delegation and sign-off of the healthcare professional responsible for each person’s care. First aid training gives people the skills to respond until professional help arrives. In an emergency, always call 999.