Prima Cura Training delivers training courses in Tooting at your own premises: health and social care training for care homes, home care agencies and personal assistants, health and safety and food hygiene training for kitchens, trades and offices, and accredited first aid for any workplace. The trainer comes to you, the scenarios match where your team actually works, and one quote covers everything.
Around Tooting Broadway you’ll find a major teaching hospital, the restaurants and food shops of Upper Tooting Road, care homes and home care services across Wandsworth and Merton, and a steady run of building and refurbishment work. Each needs different training. If first aid is all you need, our First Aid Training in Tooting page goes into the detail.
At a glance
| Who it’s for | Care homes, home care and supported living, personal assistants and their employers, restaurants and food businesses, trades and facilities teams, schools, nurseries and offices |
| Training areas | Health and social care, health and safety, food hygiene, fire safety and first aid |
| Delivery | On-site at your premises across Tooting and south-west London. Some knowledge courses also run live online |
| Certificates | First aid through WorkSafe or FAIB. Care, health and safety courses are CPD accredited. Care Certificate assessed by TAQA-qualified assessors |
| Price | Quoted individually. Trainer travel, certificates and course materials are included |
| Reply time | Within one working day |
What training courses in Tooting do we run on-site?
Health and Social Care
Care Certificate assessing across all 16 standards, Moving and Positioning People, Safe Medication Administration, PEG and PEJ Enteral Feeding Awareness, Safeguarding Adults and Safeguarding Children.
Health and Safety
Health and Safety Awareness, Manual Handling (objects), Risk Assessment Essentials, COSHH and RIDDOR Awareness, Fire Safety Awareness, Fire Marshal and Food Hygiene and Safety Level 2.
First Aid
Emergency First Aid at Work, First Aid at Work, Paediatric First Aid, Emergency Paediatric First Aid and Basic Life Support and AED. See First Aid Training in Tooting for which course suits which workplace.
How do we support care homes and home care providers in Tooting?
Under Regulation 18 of the Health and Social Care Act 2008 (Regulated Activities) Regulations 2014, care providers must make sure staff receive the training they need to do their jobs competently, and CQC inspectors look for training records that match each person’s role.
We deliver the core of that on-site: Care Certificate teaching and assessing, moving and positioning people, medication, enteral feeding, safeguarding and first aid. Steph assesses the Care Certificate herself, and where a selected associate assesses, she quality-assures their decisions, holding Level 4 Internal Quality Assurance and Leading Internal Quality Assurance. Records come in a format you can show an inspector. There’s more on our care home training and first aid for health and social care settings pages.
Can you train personal assistants in the home of the person they support?
Yes, and it’s some of the most important work we do in south London. We train personal assistants employed through Personal Health Budgets and direct payments in their employer’s own home, most often Emergency First Aid at Work and moving and positioning people. Training in the actual home means the PA practises with the person, the room and the equipment they work with every day.
It’s an area Steph knows from the policy side as well: she’s a former member of the Skills for Care Personal Health Budgets Steering Committee. We’ve also worked with Ruils, the user-led charity that supports disabled people to live independently and has offices in Tooting.
What training do Upper Tooting Road’s restaurants and food businesses need?
Three areas come up again and again for food businesses:
- Food hygiene. Food law (Regulation (EC) No 852/2004, as retained in UK law) requires food handlers to be supervised and instructed or trained in food hygiene to match their work. Food Hygiene and Safety Level 2 is the usual course for anyone handling open food.
- Fire safety. Article 21 of the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 requires employers to give staff adequate fire safety training, at induction and when risks change. Larger premises usually add a trained fire marshal.
- First aid. Burns, cuts, choking and allergic reactions are the kitchen risks, and our first aid training in Tooting is built around them.
Training for trades, construction and facilities teams
Building, refurbishment and facilities work across Wandsworth brings lifting, chemicals and changing sites. The Manual Handling Operations Regulations 1992 require employers to avoid hazardous manual handling where reasonably practicable and to assess and reduce the risk where it can’t be avoided, and training is part of that. We deliver Manual Handling (objects), COSHH and RIDDOR Awareness, Risk Assessment Essentials and First Aid at Work on-site, with scenarios built around the jobs your team actually does.
Training for Tooting schools and nurseries
Early years settings need paediatric first aid under the EYFS framework, and schools need staff who can respond to emergencies involving pupils. We deliver Paediatric First Aid, Emergency First Aid for Schools, Allergy Awareness (Benedict’s Law) for the allergy safety policy state-funded schools now need, and Safeguarding Children, all at your setting.
Why does on-site training work better in Tooting?
Sending a kitchen team, a care shift or a nursery’s early years staff across London for a day leaves the service short, and most Tooting businesses can’t run that way. On-site training removes the travel and lets you plan the day around your rota.
It also makes the learning stick. A kitchen scenario uses your kitchen. A moving and positioning session uses the beds, chairs and equipment your carers use. People practise for the place they work, so it comes back to them when it matters.
Who delivers your training, and how do we keep the standard the same?
Steph delivers in south London herself, alongside a small group of associate trainers she selects and quality-assures. Stephanie Austin has 25+ years in health and social care and 15+ years as a trainer, holds an Ofqual-regulated teaching qualification, and has delivered training on the St George’s Hospital campus in Tooting.
Every associate is recruited through safer recruitment and holds an Enhanced DBS check. Steph observes delivery, quality-assures assessment decisions and rings the client after every course to talk through how it went. 98.9% of learners rated their training good or excellent (based on submitted learner feedback, 1 January to 30 June 2026), and our statistics are updated every six months, in January and July. Steph won Health and Wellbeing Leader at the Biz Women Awards 2025, and Prima Cura Training was runner-up in two categories at the Female Business Awards 2026. You can read how we manage quality on our Quality and Compliance page.
Questions Tooting organisations ask before booking
Is health and safety training a legal requirement for Tooting employers?
Yes. Section 2 of the Health and Safety at Work etc. Act 1974 requires every employer to provide the information, instruction, training and supervision their staff need to work safely. The law doesn’t list set courses, so the right training for your team comes from your risk assessment.
Can you run training courses in Tooting at weekends or outside normal hours?
Often, yes. Care and hospitality teams rarely work nine to five, so early, late and weekend sessions can be arranged. Tell us your rota and we’ll be straight with you about what’s possible.
Can one booking cover care staff and office staff?
Yes. Many organisations book a mix, such as first aid for everyone and moving and positioning for care staff only. We’ll plan the sessions so each person only does the training their role needs.
How do you quality-assure training when an associate delivers?
Associates are recruited through safer recruitment, hold Enhanced DBS checks and deliver to Prima Cura’s lesson plans. Steph observes delivery, quality-assures assessment decisions and calls the client after every course.
Do you deliver across Wandsworth and Merton?
Yes. As well as Tooting, we deliver on-site in Balham, Earlsfield, Streatham, Colliers Wood, Mitcham and the surrounding area.
Book Training Courses in Tooting
Let us know what your team does and roughly how many people need training, whether that’s a kitchen on Upper Tooting Road, a care home, a school or a building site. Steph will reply within one working day with the right course, any legal requirements that apply to you, and one price that covers everything. Training happens at your premises, at a time that works around your service.
Call: 0333 999 8783 | Email: info@primacuratraining.co.uk
Based outside Tooting? Nearby, we deliver training in Balham and training in Teddington, and our first aid training in London page covers the rest of the capital. Further south, see first aid training in Surrey, with dedicated pages for Guildford, Farnham and Godalming.
Written by Stephanie Austin, Owner and Lead Trainer, Prima Cura Training | Last reviewed: November 2026 | Next review: November 2027, or sooner if national guidance changes.
This page gives general information about workplace training requirements in England as at November 2026. It doesn’t replace your own risk assessments, training needs analysis or professional advice for your setting. In an emergency, call 999.
