Training Courses in Salford

Accredited Workplace Training Delivered On-Site Across Salford

First aid, health and safety and care training, taught at your workplace or in your own home, anywhere in the City of Salford.

Prima Cura Training delivers accredited training courses across Salford: first aid, health and safety, and health and social care, taught on-site at your premises for groups of up to 12 learners. We’re based across the city in north Manchester, so the trainer comes to you, the scenarios match the place your team actually works, and one quote covers everything.

We also train people who employ their own personal assistants through a Personal Health Budget or direct payments, in their own homes. That’s the work that sets us apart in Salford, and it’s led by a trainer who used to sit on the Skills for Care Personal Health Budgets Steering Committee.

Training in Salford at a glance Courses: over 60 titles across first aid, health and safety, and health and social care. Where: on-site at your workplace, or in your own home, anywhere in Salford. Up to 12 learners per course. Who we train: care providers, people who employ their own PAs, cleaning and facilities teams, offices and studios, sports clubs and venues. Delivery: face to face, blended, or theory online through our e-learning portal. Price: every course is quoted individually. Trainer travel, certificates, course materials and support after the course are included. No hidden fees. Accreditation: first aid through WorkSafe, FAIB, HTN or CPD-assessed. Care Certificate assessing by TAQA-qualified assessors. Reputation: over 100 five-star Google reviews. Biz Women Awards 2025 Health and Wellbeing Leader. Finalist, 2026 Female Business Awards. Reply time: Replies within one working day.

What does training look like in someone’s own home in Salford?

Some of the most useful training I’ve delivered in Salford didn’t happen in an office or a care home. It happened in somebody’s home.

The person I was working with is a wheelchair user who employs their own personal assistants through a Personal Health Budget. That makes them the employer. Their home is their PAs’ workplace, and nobody else is going to organise the team’s training for them. So we built a programme around that house and the people in it: moving and positioning, health and safety awareness, fire safety and safeguarding.

Moving and positioning was built around one person’s needs and one home’s layout. We practised the moves the PAs actually carry out, in the rooms where they carry them out, and spent time troubleshooting the ones that weren’t working as well as they should.

Fire safety focused on the home itself. We looked at the layout room by room, at how a wheelchair user gets out safely, and I helped put together an emergency plan so every PA knows what to do.

Safeguarding was rewritten for someone living in their own home and directing their own care. In a care home, a worker with a concern tells their manager. When the person you support is also your employer, that route doesn’t exist, so the session covered exactly who the PAs escalate a concern to.

I’ve seen this from the policy side too, as a former member of the Skills for Care Personal Health Budgets Steering Committee. A personal budget gives someone choice and control over their support. Training that fits their home, their equipment and their team is part of making that choice work.

Help in Salford that sits alongside PA training

• Free home fire safety visits: Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service offers a free Home Fire Safety Assessment for residents whose health, home or daily activities could raise their fire risk or make escape harder. The visit includes an escape plan and smoke alarm checks, and you can book on 0800 555 815.
• Living in a tall block of flats: since 6 April 2026, the Fire Safety (Residential Evacuation Plans) (England) Regulations 2025 require the responsible person for residential buildings of 18 metres or seven storeys and above, and some buildings over 11 metres, to offer a person-centred fire risk assessment to residents who may need help to evacuate. Taking part is the resident’s choice.
• Reporting a safeguarding concern about an adult: in Salford, use Salford City Council’s safeguarding page or call 0161 206 0604. If someone is in immediate danger, call 999.

Which training courses can we deliver in Salford?

Every course below is taught face to face at your premises and assessed practically wherever the course calls for it. Tell us what your team does all day and we’ll recommend the course that fits, even if it’s not the one you asked about.

First aid

Workplace first aid has its own page. For the full course list, how many first aiders you need and the Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club story, see our page on first aid training in Salford. In short, we deliver:

• Emergency First Aid at Work (1 day) and First Aid at Work (3 days, or blended).
• First Aid at Work Requalification (2 days) and Basic Life Support and AED (half day), the practical way to deliver the annual refresher HSE strongly recommends.
• Paediatric First Aid (12 hours, classroom or blended) and Emergency Paediatric First Aid for nurseries and early years settings.
• First aid training for health and social care settings, built around care environments, including people’s own homes.
• Anaphylaxis Awareness and Allergy Awareness (Benedict’s Law), which run as separate courses because first aid training on its own doesn’t meet the allergy training duty on schools.

Health and safety

• Health and Safety Awareness and Level 2 Health and Safety: the general duties on employers and staff, in plain English.
• Risk Assessing: how to write a risk assessment that reflects what actually happens at work, and how to review it when something changes.
• Fire Safety Awareness and Fire Marshal: for the people who take charge in an evacuation, including shared buildings with more than one employer.
• Manual Handling (Objects) and COSHH and RIDDOR Awareness: for cleaning, facilities, warehouse and site teams.
• Food Hygiene Awareness and Food Hygiene and Safety Level 2: for kitchens, cafés and food businesses.
• WAVE for Licensed Premises, WAVE for Retail Staff, Drug and Alcohol Awareness and Complaints and Conflict Resolution: for front-of-house, bar and retail teams.
• First Aid for Mental Health Level 2 and Mental Health Awareness: for any employer, care or not.

Health and social care

• Care Certificate Assessing: new starters assessed against all 16 Care Certificate standards by TAQA-qualified assessors.
• Moving and Positioning People: taught with your own equipment, in your own building or the home of the person you support.
• Adult Safeguarding Level 1 and 2, Safeguarding Adults and Children Awareness and Mental Capacity Act 2005 and DoLS.
• Clinical and delegated healthcare skills: PEG and PEJ enteral feeding, catheter care, colostomy and stoma care, tracheostomy care and ventilation, epilepsy with emergency medication, safe medication administration, medication awareness, diabetes awareness and dysphagia awareness.
• Awareness courses: dementia, learning disability, autism, infection prevention and control, nutrition and hydration, pressure ulcer prevention and end of life.
• For people who employ their own PAs: Safe Recruitment for Employers and Managers and Positive Risk Taking, alongside the practical courses above.

That’s not the full list. If the course you need isn’t here, see all our courses or ask.

Questions Salford organisations ask before booking

Who do we train in Salford, and what do they need?

Salford’s working day runs from studios and offices on the Quays to care services, building sites and family homes across the city. Here’s what training looks like in each, and who we’ve worked with. Where we name a client from elsewhere in Greater Manchester, we say so.

People who employ their own personal assistants

If you employ PAs through a Personal Health Budget or direct payments, you’re the employer. You decide what training your team needs, you find someone to deliver it, and you keep the records. We make that part easier: we come to your home, build the training around you, and give every PA a certificate and a record of what they covered.

We’ve trained Personal Health Budget and direct payment holders in their own homes in Salford and across Greater Manchester, and we’re a long-standing preferred supplier to Your Support Matters, a community interest company in Ramsbottom, Bury, that supports people using personal budgets. If you’re paying for training from your budget, check with whoever manages it what it can be spent on before you book.

Care homes, home care and supported living

CQC checks training against Regulation 18 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, which requires providers to make sure staff receive the training they need to do their job. Inspectors don’t stop at the training matrix. They talk to staff and check whether the records match what people can actually do, under CQC’s five key questions in its assessment framework. There’s more in our guide to Regulation 18 staffing.

Two requirements trip providers up. The Care Certificate now has 16 standards, after Skills for Care, NHS England and Skills for Health added one on learning disability and autism awareness in March 2025. And since the Health and Care Act 2022, every CQC-registered provider must make sure staff get learning disability and autism training appropriate to their role.

We’ve helped care providers rebuild their training after an unannounced inspection found gaps, and trained whole teams, managers included, in moving and positioning after a safeguarding incident. Both stories are on our care home training page. If you run a care service in Salford, send us your training matrix and we’ll show you where the gaps are and what it would take to close them.

Cleaning, facilities and construction

Teams that move between sites are the easiest to leave out of a first aid needs assessment. HSE’s guidance on first aid at work asks employers to think about staff who work away from the main premises, including lone workers, and the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999 require a suitable and sufficient risk assessment for every activity, not just the office.

Cleaning Ventures is a commercial and construction cleaning company whose teams work across Greater Manchester, including Salford. We trained the whole organisation in Emergency First Aid at Work, with the CEO and directors on the same course as supervisors and cleaners. Nobody sat that one out.

On the workshop side, we helped BeeSpoke Carpentry in Manchester with risk assessments for their workshop and machinery, and delivered health and safety awareness and risk assessing training alongside their first aid. For site and facilities teams in Salford, the usual mix is first aid, COSHH and RIDDOR Awareness, Manual Handling (Objects) and Risk Assessing.

Offices, studios and digital businesses around MediaCityUK

Lower hazard doesn’t mean no duty. The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations 1981 apply to every employer, and in a shared building at the Quays your fire marshals also need to know how your evacuation plan fits with everyone else’s. Where premises are shared, the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires each responsible person to co-operate and co-ordinate with the others.

Linten Technologies, a B2B IT services company a short drive from the Quays 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 to include in a first aid risk assessment so they could support their own clients.

Sports clubs, venues and hospitality

At Manchester Tennis and Racquet Club in Salford, we trained pros, coaches and staff in Emergency First Aid at Work, built around injuries on court, first aid when the building is unstaffed and looking after an on-site defibrillator. The full story is on our Salford first aid page.

For bars, venues and late-night businesses, WAVE for Licensed Premises teaches staff to spot and help customers who have become vulnerable. We delivered WAVE training in Guildford for eight consecutive years. For kitchens and food businesses, food handlers must be supervised, instructed or trained in food hygiene to match their work under Regulation (EC) 852/2004, which our food hygiene courses cover.

On-site, blended or online: what works for your team?

Most Salford training runs on-site, because practical skills have to be shown and assessed in person, and your own building or home is the most realistic place to learn them. Blended courses put the theory online and keep the practical day face to face, which cuts time away from the rota.

The rule we work to: anything assessed with your hands, such as CPR, moving and positioning or evacuation equipment, needs a trainer in the room. Knowledge-based courses can sit online through our e-learning portal, and we’ll tell you honestly which is which.

How much do training courses in Salford cost?

Every Prima Cura course in Salford is quoted individually, based on the course, how many people need training and how many sessions it takes to fit your rota. One price covers everything: trainer travel anywhere in Salford, certificates, course materials and support after the course.

We also build your own policies into the day, from your first aid policy and accident reporting procedure to your fire emergency plan, so your team learns how things work in your organisation. Got a small team or a single PA? Tell us how many people need training and we’ll find the most cost-effective way to do it.

Get a quote for your team: Complete our enquiry form, email us at info@primacuratraining.co.uk or call us 0333 999 8783

Accreditation, certificates and who turns up

Why Salford organisations 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.

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 why the care training on this page comes from someone who has run a service, not just taught about one.

98.9% of learners rated their training good or excellent (based on submitted learner feedback, 1 January to 30 June 2026). Our statistics are updated every six months, in January and July. We also have over 100 five-star Google reviews.

Steph’s work has been recognised outside the training room too. She won Health and Wellbeing Leader at the Biz Women Awards 2025. At the Female Business Awards 2026, Prima Cura Training was runner-up in two categories: Coach, Mentor or Trainer (2nd of 16 finalists) and Services to the Community (2nd of 8). Steph was also a finalist for Female Entrepreneur at the North Manchester International Women’s Day Business Awards 2026 and for Wellbeing Warrior at The Freshies Awards 2026. ManchesterWorld covered the Female Business Awards shortlisting, and you’ll find the rest of her coverage on our Press & Media page.

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 Salford do we cover?

All of it, with trainer travel included in the quote wherever you are:

• Salford Quays and MediaCityUK (M50, M5)
• Ordsall, Weaste, Seedley and Langworthy (M5, M6)
• Pendleton, Charlestown and Irlams o’ th’ Height (M6)
• Greengate and central Salford (M3)
• Broughton and Kersal (M7)
• Swinton, Pendlebury and Clifton (M27)
• Walkden, Worsley and Boothstown (M28)
• Little Hulton (M38)
• Eccles, Patricroft, Monton and Winton (M30)
• Irlam and Cadishead (M44)

Salford is one of the ten Greater Manchester boroughs we cover.

For the whole region, see our training courses in Greater Manchester page. Next door, we deliver workplace training in Manchester city centre, and a little further south there are our training courses in Stockport. If it’s only first aid you need, go to first aid training in Salford or our wider first aid training in Manchester page. Schools and nurseries have their own page too: first aid training for schools in Greater Manchester.

Book training in Salford

Tell us who needs training, where you are, and what a normal working day looks like. If you have a training matrix, send it over and Steph will tell you where the gaps are. She’ll come back within one working day with the right courses and a clear, all-in quote. No hard sell, and if a different course fits better, she’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: November 2026 | Next review: November 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. Clinical skills training supports, and doesn’t replace, the delegation and sign-off of the healthcare professional responsible for each person’s care. In an emergency, always call 999.