Does my workplace injury need assessed professionally?
I work in a primary school. It's a mainstream school though a lot of my work is split between a few SEN children. My workplace have never put me through any training in restraining (though it is seldom needed and usually low level).
Over the past couple of days, leadership have made some terrible decisions which resulted in one of these SEN children being allowed to come on a trip (behaviour in the run up to the trip, in my opinion, showed he should not have been allowed to come). One other adult and myself took 22 children out. We were within ratio on paper however a 3rd adult should have been sent to acount for said child.
The child in question got violent with another pupil whilst out of school and I've had no option but to restrain whilst back up was called for. For 15mins I've held this child (it was entirely necessary, the whole time he was still goading the other child, acting aggressively and trying to go for the other who was taken much further away).
During the restraint I've gotten injured - from this child leaning and straining against my arms, I've pulled my ribs on one side of my body, in my back. I was in pain to some degree at the time but an hour afterwards I knew I'd definitely done damage. In the evening I was in agony, couldn't get comfortable and needed pain killers. It's much the same this morning.
My pain is quite concentrated to one area of my back/side, hurts a lot on deep breathing/laughing/coughing/sneezing and I get shooting sharp pains on certain movements. Due to the mechanism of injury I doubt if any ribs are broken but suspect soft tissue damage with nerve pain.
Whilst I know that a hospital won't do anything to treat this kind of injury - I'm wondering whether I need to be seen, to have proof and to back myself up should I make any formal complaint against my employer? I don't want to waste anybodies time, but want to be able to stand up for myself.
Amy advice is greatfully received.