HSE Offshore Medic

The offshore medic programme runs in three stages: eLearning theory at your own pace, five days of practical classroom training with us, then 60 hours of supervised clinical practice. You have twelve months from enrolment to complete all three, and your placement must be completed within six months of your classroom week.

The practical week is taught by clinicians who have worked offshore.

Online learning topics include

• Health promotion and occupational health
• Medical and surgical emergencies
• Minor illness and injury
• Wound assessment and management
• Burns and shock
• Drowning and diving-related illness
• Gas toxicity
• Medicines and drug administration

Classroom training includes

• Structured patient assessment
• Airway management
• Advanced life support
• Trauma assessment and management
• Wound care and suturing
• Catheterisation
• Intravenous access
• Intraosseous access
• Practical emergency scenarios

Throughout your placement you will be supervised by a registered clinician, who signs off each competency in your practice assessment document.

How you are assessed

• Stage 1, online learning. Multiple-choice assessments, written submissions and module completion.
• Stage 2, classroom training. Practical assessments, written assessments and clinical scenarios.
• Stage 3, clinical placement. 60 hours of supervised practice, completion of your practice assessment document and confirmation of competencies.

What you will hold on completion

• HSE Offshore Medic certification, valid three years
• Pre-Hospital Trauma Management, endorsed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh, valid three years
• Advanced Life Support Skills certificate
• Clinical History Taking and Physical Assessment certificate

Four certificates from one programme. Optional checkout services are separate from the core award.

ELCAS Package

Our ELCAS-approved package adds the Qualsafe Level 4 Award in Out of Hospital Adult Immediate Life Support (RQF), qualification number 610/3257/8, delivered and assessed as an integrated part of the programme with a separate Qualsafe Awards certificate.

Service leavers may be able to claim up to 80% of the course fee through ELCAS.

Your certificate lasts three years. When it is due, our two-day Offshore Medic Refresher renews it.

To join the HSE Offshore Medic course you need at least two years’ post-registration experience in one of the following roles:

• NMC registered nurse
• HCPC registered paramedic
• GMC registered doctor
• Army Combat Medical Technician Class 1 (CMT1) or Royal Marines Assistant Class 1 (RMA1)
• Royal Navy Leading Medical Assistant
• RAF Medical Assistant

Military applicants must be able to evidence the qualification on their discharge documentation and have access to the relevant MOD training records.

International equivalents and qualifications not listed here are considered individually. Contact us before booking and we will tell you honestly whether you are eligible.

There are several ways to pay, and a few ways to pay less.

Secure your place with a 20% deposit

You do not need to pay in full to book. Pay 20% at checkout and secure your place on the date you want. The balance is due before your course starts.

Pay in full with Klarna

Choose Klarna at checkout and spread the cost on Klarna’s terms. Your place is paid in full and confirmed straight away. Subject to Klarna’s eligibility checks.

12-month payment plan

Pay across twelve monthly instalments at 0% interest. Speak to our team before booking to set this up.

ELCAS funding

Service leavers may be able to claim up to 80% of the course fee through ELCAS. We are an approved provider and can help with the paperwork.

Multiple booking discount

Employers booking four or more learners receive 15% off the total, including any optional services added at checkout. If your learners need clinical placements, the discount applies to those too.

Returning learners

Trained with us before? Take 10% off your next refresher with us.

Course fee money-back guarantee

Attend the course, complete the learning and follow your tutor’s guidance. If you still do not pass, we refund your course fee.

Staying overnight

Travelling to us from outside Teesside? We have agreed learner rates with the Sporting Lodge Inn at Stainton, a 5 to 10 minute drive from our Stockton-on-Tees centre, with easy access from the A19 and A174.

• £75 per night — bed and breakfast
• £95 per night — dinner, bed and breakfast, including a two-course evening meal and a drink

Both rates include free on-site parking and free use of the hotel gym and 25-metre pool. There is a pub and restaurant on site.

These rates are only available through us, not directly with the hotel. Add the nights you need to your checkout when you book your course, and we will arrange it and confirm the details with you.

Five classroom days means five nights, not ten. At £75 that is £375 for the week, with breakfast and parking included.

Rooms are subject to availability, so book as early as you can. Plans change — cancel your room up to 24 hours before arrival and we will refund it.

Download our Teesside accommodation and local area guide for learners (PDF)

Our centre is Faraday House, Sopwith Close, Stockton-on-Tees, TS18 3TT, with free on-site parking and direct access from the A66 and A19.

By rail

Darlington sits on the East Coast Mainline, under three hours from London King’s Cross, with direct services from Edinburgh, Newcastle, York and Leeds. Eaglescliffe is the nearest station to the centre, with parking, cycle storage and ticket facilities.

By air

Teesside International Airport is around twenty minutes away and Newcastle Airport about an hour, with direct flights from Aberdeen, Belfast and Dublin.

What it costs to attend

Teesside is straightforward to reach from anywhere in the UK, and cheaper to stay in than most training locations. Five classroom days, five nights at £75, and one week away from work rather than two. That is what makes the overall package one of the most cost-effective routes to the HSE Offshore Medic certificate.