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St John Ambulance

First Aid, Mental Health and Fire Marshal Training at Sites Across England

St John Ambulance is the largest catalogue on the site — 769 classroom courses across seven course types, running from Carlisle and Workington in the north to Truro and St Austell in the south west, and out to Newport on the Isle of Wight. Workplace first aid at three levels forms the bulk of it, with paediatric first aid, fire marshal, mental health first aid and a separate mental health advocate course alongside. Everything is classroom-delivered.

Emergency First Aid at Work — 184 locations
EFAW is the widest-running course in the catalogue. One day covering the immediate life-saving essentials — unresponsive casualties, CPR, choking, bleeding and shock — and the level a first aid needs assessment usually points to for smaller, lower-hazard workplaces. The certificate lasts three years.
First Aid at Work — 186 locations
FAW runs three days, adding injury and illness management to the EFAW content — fractures, burns, head and spinal injuries, and medical conditions including diabetes, asthma, stroke and anaphylaxis. This is the level for higher-risk work, larger headcounts, or sites some distance from emergency services.
First Aid at Work Re-qualification — 186 locations
FAW Re-qualification matches the FAW network location for location — two days rather than three, for anyone whose certificate is still in date. Let it expire and the route closes: you sit the full three-day course again. Worth diarising a couple of months ahead, because places at a specific site go quickly.
Paediatric First Aid — 62 locations
Paediatric First Aid is the qualification the EYFS statutory framework requires in early years settings. Workplace EFAW or FAW does not satisfy it — infant and child resuscitation differ materially from adult technique, and Ofsted will ask for the paediatric certificate specifically.
Mental Health First Aid — 47 locations
Mental Health First Aid trains designated people to recognise and respond to a colleague in crisis, and to know where the boundary of their role sits. It runs at Aylesbury, Barnstaple, Basingstoke, Bath, Bristol, Cambridge, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chelmsford, Chester, Colchester, Crewe, Croydon, Dartford, Derby, Durham, Epsom, Exeter, Gloucester, Grays, Hull, Huntingdon, Leicester, Lincoln, Maidstone, Milton Keynes, Peterborough, Plymouth, Poole, Portsmouth, Preston, Reading, Southampton, Stevenage, Windsor and across London.
Mental Health Advocate — 27 locations
A separate course from MHFA, and worth understanding as such. The advocate role is about culture and prevention — championing wellbeing, challenging stigma and shaping how an organisation handles mental health — rather than responding to someone in immediate crisis. Larger employers often train both: advocates to change the environment, first aiders to handle the moment. Available at 27 sites including Bristol, Cambridge, Chester, Derby, Durham, Exeter, Leicester, Preston, Southampton and across London. Browse all mental health courses.
Fire Marshal — 77 locations
Fire Marshal training covers the marshal's role in a sweep and evacuation, extinguisher selection and use, and the duties under the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order. It runs at 77 sites, which is broader coverage than most providers manage for any course at all. In most workplaces the same few people hold both the fire marshal and first aider roles, so the two are worth booking together. See all fire safety courses.
Where the sites are
London is covered in depth — Clerkenwell, London Bridge, Marylebone, Westminster, Canary Wharf, Hammersmith, Ealing, Harrow, Wimbledon, Croydon, Leytonstone, Kingston, Feltham and Enfield. Beyond it the network reaches the south coast from Portsmouth and Southampton to Poole and Bournemouth, the south west through Exeter, Plymouth, Truro and St Austell, the Midlands, East Anglia, the north west from Preston to Carlisle and Workington, and Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. St John Ambulance operates in England — for Scotland, see St Andrew's First Aid.
EFAW, FAW or re-qualification — which do you need?
The Health and Safety (First-Aid) Regulations set no headcount rule. They require a first aid needs assessment, and that decides both the level and the number of first aiders. Broadly: EFAW for smaller lower-hazard workplaces, FAW for higher-risk work or larger sites, and re-qualification only if you already hold an in-date FAW certificate. Shift patterns, holidays and lone working all push the number up, because cover has to hold when people are away. Browse all first aid courses.
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Emergency First Aid at Work (SJA) 184 courses
First Aid at Work (SJA) 185 courses
First Aid at Work Re-qualification (SJA) 185 courses
Paediatric First Aid (SJA) 62 courses
Mental Health Advocate (SJA) 27 courses
Mental Health First Aid (SJA) 47 courses
Fire Marshal (SJA) 77 courses

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