Practice Educator news – These posts are SWAST Practice Educator news items that will show up on the SWAST Practice Educator page on www.swastcpd.co.uk
Following the success of our previous events, our ‘Be a Better Paramedic’ Student Paramedic Conference returns for another day of engaging, challenging and interesting CPD.
Join us on Saturday 2nd March 2024 for this fantastic event.
Making Sense of Health Research Annual Conference on Wednesday 21 September 22 (9.30 – 16.30) at Buckfast Abbey Conference Centre.
SW AHPs, AHP Support Workers, & Students – HEE SW invites you to our next SW AHP MASSIVE conference & networking event. 23rd May Exeter
PARAMEDIC SCIENCE QUALITY REVIEW – Focus Group
This group will be part of the incentivised PEd update day on 1st Dec 2022 – if you sign up for the whole day you will be paid as per the normal arrangement for update days. Students can drop-in for the focus group at 15:00 in an unpaid capacity.
The SW Clinical Senate currently have 2 vacancies for a Professional-in-Training on the Senate Council.
Applications are welcome from doctors, nurses, midwives, allied health professionals, pharmacists, dentists, and trainees from other specialisms that are currently represented on the Senate Council i.e. medical scientists.
The Health and Care Professional Council (HCPC) are working with Health Education England (HEE) to build on existing examples of good practice in preceptorship and have opened consultation.
The National Education and Training (NETS) Survey is back for 2022 and is open to all trainees and students working and training in healthcare services across England.
SWASFT are upgrading to Office 365 including MS teams. Want to know how to use all the new features and find out where your old shortcuts went? Free bitesize training is available
HEE PARAMEDIC SCIENCE QUALITY REVIEW
An invitation to join a feedback session to share your experience of paramedic clinical placements for current students, NQP’s and Practice Educators.
New Clinical supervision page has been launched with more information for staff and students in SWASFT – click here for more
The Mental Health Education For Ambulance Services Conference 2022, will be held at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel, Milton Keynes on Thursday 27th October. Reserve your place today to join in person.
Young Black Men Mental Health Crisis Tools- Guides Supporting Young Black Men. These useful guides can be accessed free of charge.
SWASFT e-learning PEd course handbook now available!
Health Education England South West Multi-Professional Educational Conference – For all multi-professional educators, trainers and learners – Oct 14th 2022 – Virtual & Face to face – Taunton racecourse – Abstract submissions open
The questionnaire is aimed at any individual currently working with people experiencing a mental health crisis and will help us to understand more about this workforce and their training and development needs.
Welcome to the first edition of our new Practice Placement newsletter. Keeping students & PE’s up to speed on all things placement.
SWAST, in conjunction with the University of Cumbria, are seeking a clinical lecturer (seconded from the Trust) for the SWAST Paramedic apprenticeship programme. You will work with the SWAST Programme Leader (SL) and other clinical lecturers to deliver the University’s BSc (Hons) in Paramedic Science to SWAST members of staff who are undertaking the…
All ambulance staff invited to attend this session on learning through discomfort – and why feeling uncomfortable isn’t a bad thing.
NEW! Pre-Hospital PROMPT Videos PPH & Normal birth videos made in collaboration with SWASFT, PROMPT, UWE. Available here and on YouTube
New UoC student and Practice Educator page published with access to tons of resources for students and PEs
PE’s nominated for Placement awards by UoP School of Health Professions
We would like to take this opportunity to thank you all for your continued hard work in providing a quality placement for all students! As your Practice Placement Co-coordinator (PPC) team, we would like to update you on the work we have been doing towards getting students from all of our partner universities returning to…
An exciting opportunity to be at the forefront of Paramedic education! Could you be the Senior lecturer in Paramedic Apprenticeships (Partnership secondment with SWAST)? App. deadline extended to 16/08
New video on iLearn if you havent seen it yet! Cardiac arrest procedures – COVID 19
A video produced by the Clincial team and the L&D team to guide you through cardiac arrest during Covid.
Covid-19 – BAME (Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic) Colleagues – Trust Letter This letter has been sent out to recently to all staff via email. As you will have seen in the bulletin last week, as well as on the news and the updates regarding Covid-19 and in particular the disproportionate impact that this has…
UWE DLP (Dip HE) Temporary Register SWASFT FAQs Please see the below email communication that was sent out on the 11th May to DLP students. You can also Download a PDF of the FAQs here related to staff enrolled on the DLP (Dip HE) program with UWE. ‘We are aware that a number of…
UoP 3rd yrs 2020 on film These lovely people are Year 3 students from the University of Plymouth who are either entering the Temporary Paramedic register early or becoming Emergency Care Assistants to help the trust during the COVID-19 pandemic. They’ll be out and about on the road soon! So please make them welcome, and…
SWAST & UWE collaborative working Cohorts 6 & 8 of SWAST Dip HE (ECA to Paramedic) students were about to reach the end of their course when COVID 19 threw a spanner in the works. UWE had to be closed just when they were about to attend and complete their final OSCEs. SWAST and…
UWE Paramedic Science guidance – Students There are a lot of queries at the moment regarding assessments, module materials and other matters related to your studies. A key message is that: students will NOT be disadvantaged as a result of the current situation. Please ensure that you engage with Blackboard and keep up to date with…
Click here to apply for the UoP Mentorship (L6 Accredited module) – now online The UoP Mentorship module has now moved to a virtual classroom as we adjust to Covid life. This course is a fully accredited UoP Level 6 module – it will require 4 days online attendance with submission of an assignment. Please…
COLLEGE OF PARAMEDICS LAUNCH TEMP. REG. PARA (TRP / NQP) SUPPORT SITE This is a great site (updated regularly) with lots of really useful ,reputable and user friendly site. It’s stuffed with content to support staff new to the front-line, and would no doubt be useful to all clinicians new or experienced. CoP says- …
STUDENT & PRACTICE EDUCATOR PAGE We have now launched a new Student & Practice Educator (PE) page! Here you will find links to all things Student & PE replicating the Mentor resources page on the intranet, but now accessible from any device. As well as this, we will be using these pages to post…
Please CLICK HERE to download the latest Advice & Guidance to Student Paramedics – COVID – 19 Please CLICK HERE to download the SWASfT Position statement on the Advice & Guidance to Student Paramedics – COVID – 19 Please CLICK HERE to download the SWASfT FAQs on the Advice & Guidance to Student Paramedics –…
‘Back to Basics’ in house CPD sessions Written & delivered by SWAST Learning & Development Officers; these events will offer a real ‘Back 2 Basics’ refresher course in a variety of subjects to all staff. We aim to deliver at least 1 of each session in each of the 8 operational County areas. Sessions planned…