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Train to teach EFR Primary and Secondary Care, plus Care for Children — combining classroom learning with real teaching assignments.
Get more infoThe Emergency First Response Instructor course teaches you how to deliver CPR and First Aid training to others. It focuses on coaching, practical skill demonstration and managing realistic emergency scenarios.
It is often completed alongside the PADI instructor pathway because EFR Instructor status is needed before a dive instructor can teach EFR courses. It is just as useful outside diving, for workplace and community first aid training.
| Theory (knowledge development) | Online learning is completed first, covering the programme's philosophy, standards and instructional approach. |
| Pool / confined water | Not applicable; the EFR course is taught on land. |
| Open water | Not applicable. Instead, practical teaching workshops let you present, coach skills and run scenarios with feedback. |
| Internship | Not applicable. |
Minimum age 18. CPR and First Aid training, such as EFR Primary and Secondary Care or equivalent, completed within the past 24 months, and being physically able to take part in practical training and teaching. Confirm current requirements with Scubaversity.
Minimum age: 18
Typically a short course with online learning followed by roughly one to two days of in-person practical training. Confirm timing with Scubaversity.
Divemasters, Assistant Instructors and instructors who want to teach EFR, and anyone with current first aid training who wants to teach it.
Combines classroom learning with hands-on teaching assignments, supervised by our existing instructor team.
You'll be qualified to teach EFR Primary and Secondary Care, plus Care for Children. Most PADI Instructors hold this rating alongside their diving credentials, since it lets them run first-aid courses independently of scuba training.
It combines classroom learning — covering a low-stress, performance-based, learner-centred teaching philosophy — with hands-on teaching assignments, supervised by our existing instructor team, plus practical guidance on marketing and organising your own EFR courses.
EFR Instructor is a professional-level rating, typically taken by working or trainee PADI Instructors. If you're not sure whether you meet the prerequisites, get in touch and we'll confirm what you need before you enrol.
Classroom sessions and supervised teaching assignments are run at our Gauteng facility as part of our professional development programme.
EFR Instructor pricing is available on request — contact for pricing. Use the "Get more info" button on this page, or head to our enquiry page, and we'll confirm dates with you.
Not necessarily. You need to be at least 18 with current CPR and First Aid training and be able to take part in practical teaching. Many candidates are dive professionals, but it is not limited to them.
Dive instructors need EFR Instructor status to teach EFR courses, and EFR Primary and Secondary Care training is also an IDC prerequisite.