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SWAST Workforce Changes
2015/16
Jim Petter
Head of Education
[email protected]
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Conventional Ambulance
Workforce
Emergency Care Assistant (ECA)
Technician
Advanced Technician aka
Ambulance Practitioner
Paramedic
Emergency Care Practitioner (ECP)
Band 4 L3
Band 4 L3
Band 5 L3/4
Band 5 L3/4
Band 5 L3/4/5!
Band 6 L6/7
The influence of ‘PEEP’
The Paramedic Evidence-Based Education Report (HEE, 2013)
• Acknowledges massive changes in ‘999’ workload
• Standardised, directly commissioned education:
Paramedics: Degree entry from 2019
• NHS Inclusion:
? Tuition Fees
? NHS Bursary
? Practice Placements Tariff
http://hee.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/321/2014/04/PEEP-Report.pdf
The influence of ‘PEEP’ (2)
Curriculum Guidance 2015
Scope of Practice Guidance
Pay Banding and the move to degree?
Band 6?
Pay costs to employers?
What ‘valued added’
What effect on the workforce model
20% Employed (Internal)
Paramedic route
5-6 years total duration
ECA
Band 3
80% Direct
Commissioned route
(Ac L 3, 1 year)
ECA (Patient Support
vehicle PSV)
Band 4
(Ac L4 over 1-2 years)
Paramedic
Band 5
Direct Paramedic route
3 years total duration
B.Sc Hons (Ac L 6)
(Ac L 6 over 3 yrs)
Specialist Paramedic
Urgent/Critical/Hub
Contemporary SWAST Clinical
Workforce
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ECA Band 3 L3 /L4 (Internal progression)
PSV Band 4 L4 (Enhanced scope)
Paramedic (Internal route) Band 6/ L6
Paramedic UG (direct commision) Band 6/ L6
Specialist Paramedic/Specialist Nurse
Band 6/7 Post Graduate
SPUEC. CCP. Hub Clinicians:
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Specialist Paramedic (Urgent Care)
(Not ‘ECP’!)
Five Modules
1. Physical; Assessment & Clinical Reasoning
2. Contemporary Paramedic Practice in Urgent Care
3. Pharmacology
4. Remote Clinical Decision-Making (aka ‘Hear 7 Treat’)
5. Evidencing Work-Based Learning (‘long thin’ Practice Module)
Practice Element:
Workplace mentoring:
GP Placement (8 weeks)
MIU/UCC
Clinical Hubs (RCDM)
Specialist Paramedic (Urgent Care)
Modules taken at Level 7
18-month programme duration
Peer review/supervision element
Practice Assessment:
Portfolio Completion
CoP/RCGP-designed summative exam
CoP/RCGP Paramedic Practitioner Exam (since 2013)
• Part One. 14 Station OSCEs
• Part Two: 3-Hour Written component
Run at St Georges, London by the RCGP. SWAST staff are on
the faculty
(Plans for separate Critical Care Exam are ongoing)
Remote Clinical Decision-Making (Hub)
CAD system
Triage System
(AMPDS or NHS
Pathways)
Underpinning Educational Framework
RCDM Module
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Enhances hospital avoidance
Supports wider non-conveyance aims
Supports appropriate and safe disposition of resource
Patient centred
Remote Clinical Decision-Making
• Collaboration between UWE and SWAST
• Due to commence Jan 2016 (earlier pilot possible)
• 8 contact days (classroom)
• 10 days practice placement
• Accredited by UWE at 20 credits L6 or 7
• Pre entry: clinical experience and patient assessment
module
Questions?
[email protected]