Gloucester Royal Hospital Big Simulation

Registered healthcare professionals – paramedics.

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SWASFT paramedics are invited to be involved in a Big Sim being held at GRH. The role would be to simulate the patient handover to our resuscitation team, after which they are welcome to observe the simulation and attend the debrief.

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Protected: Education Leads – Out-of-Hospital Newborn Life Support

Registered healthcare professionals – paramedics or nurses.

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Whether attending a planned homebirth or responding to an unplanned delivery in the community, OH-NLS provides structured, evidence-based training to equip clinicians with the skills needed to support the transition to extrauterine life and initiate newborn resuscitation when required.

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Out-of-Hospital Newborn Life Support

Registered healthcare professionals – paramedics or nurses.

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Whether attending a planned homebirth or responding to an unplanned delivery in the community, OH-NLS provides structured, evidence-based training to equip clinicians with the skills needed to support the transition to extrauterine life and initiate newborn resuscitation when required.

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Pathways, Admission Reflection Tool & The Clinical Handover

All patient facing staff.

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This interactive 2-hour session will go through topics including navigating pathways, teams to contact, best interest decisions and clinical handover. Attendees will leave with improved knowledge and enhanced confidence in these areas.

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Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support 2026 – Expression of Interest

Expression of interest for registered clinicians

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A two day course, Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) provides comprehensive training for emergency and healthcare professionals in the UK who need to deliver advance trauma care in pre-hospital settings. Based on globally recognised principles and evidence based trauma management, this intensive course equips participants with the essential skills to respond effectively to trauma incidents, ensuring the highest possible standard of care or trauma patients before they reach the hospital.

To respond to demand we want to make this course available to staff - we need a more accurate idea of interest prior to purchasing. Available to registered clinicians.

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Oliver McGowan Training

All SWAST Staff

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The Oliver McGowan Mandatory Training on Learning Disability and Autism is the government’s preferred and recommended training for health and social care staff. It aims to save lives by ensuring the health and social care workforce have the right skills and knowledge to provide safe, compassionate and informed care to autistic people and people with a learning disability.

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Microsoft 365: Excel Intermediate Workshop

All SWASFT staff.

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This remote workshop is aimed at those who are looking to improve their Excel skills. It covers conditional formatting rules, sorting advanced data, advanced formulas and functions as well as additional tips and tricks. Attendees will leave feeling confident in using conditional formatting rules and using advanced functions in Excel, as well as using more advanced features such as pivot tables and data validation.

The provider have suggested the foundation Excel workshop should be a prerequisite for this intermediate session.

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Finding the Light in Dementia: Live on-line study day

Designed predominantly for front-line staff (registrants & non-registrants), but non-clinical staff are also very welcome to sign up.

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One day live virtual workshop / study day. Available as part of a package along with a self-paced virtual training package or by itself if you'd prefer just to attend a live session.

Created by a dementia nurse specialist with over 30 years experience, Finding the Light in Dementia is designed to provide a deep understanding of dementia. Covering an overview of the how our brains work, as well as practical tips and approaches when it comes to what to consider, how to connect and how best to communicate with a person living with dementia.

This course is available as both an online study day and e-learning platform.

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Microsoft 365: Forms

Open to all staff.

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Most of us by now have completed a Microsoft Form; but are you a bit baffled by how to create one yourself? Want to capture a lot of data quickly but don't have time to do this manually or want to help yourself or your team to work more efficiently?

This Forms Foundation training is a 90-minute interactive virtual workshop delivered remotely via Microsoft Teams. This engagement gives users a basic understanding of the tools and how to locate and utilise them within Forms. Each session will allocate time for Q & A.

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Microsoft 365: Excel Foundation Workshop

All SWASFT staff.

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Do you feel you need to build some basic skills and foundation knowledge around Excel? You may be a member of staff who uses Excel rarely, but when you do, you find it a bit overwhelming to do simple tasks. Or perhaps you use it fairly regularly within your role, but have never had any formal training & would like to get back to basics so that you can feel you are using it in the most effective way...

If you think this is you, sign up for this remote 90 minute workshop to build skills and confidence!

The trainer advises attending a foundation level workshop as a prerequisite to the intermediate level.

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UoG – Practice Education: Supervising & Assessing Paramedic Learners in Practice (Level 7) **Now Open for Applications**

Registered staff - All depts

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30 credit, Level 7 distance learning module with optional drop-in sessions, created in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire.

Ideal for staff who need to complete an approved Practice Educator course but are also keen to challenge themselves academically at Masters Level (Level 7).

Created with registered healthcare professionals (primarily Paramedics) in mind & the language may at times refer to ambulance placements or paramedics specifically.

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Sexual Assault Referral Centres (SARC)

Suitable for all staff and students. May be most applicable for staff who have contact with patients.

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This pre-recorded session offers information and guidance if someone discloses to a professional that they have been raped or sexually assaulted. Delivered by Duncan from The Bridge, which is a Sexual Assault Referral Centre.

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eLifesaver

All staff welcome to sign up, but this training is predominantly aimed at staff who don't necessarily have any clinical training.

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Predominantly aimed at staff who don't necessarily have any clinical training, eLifesaver is your opportunity to learn what an emergency looks like and how you should respond to it. By learning essential lifesaving skills, you have the power to help increase the number of people who could survive an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest in the South West.

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ParaPass & ParaFolio App

Available to registered clinicians (+AP's and AT's & students).

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The ParaPass App is a vast, user friendly, digital platform that includes tools and information to support paramedic learning and development, developed by the same people who produced JRCALCPlus.
N.B. Everyone who needs access to PGD's via ParaPass Lite will continue to have access via the usual processes. However, you will need to sign up below to gain full access to the ParaPass App.

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Palliative & End-of-life Care Training Programme 2025

All staff & students - most beneficial to patient focused roles

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Open to all All staff & students. A three-step course aiming to deliver practical, focused, frontline palliative care skills and knowledge to all ambulance clinicians across the whole Southwest. The first step will be a focused handbook on palliative care, sent out before the course start date.
The second step is a virtual, interactive teaching day on July 12th. (*This is now a recorded session for those that couldn't attend*). During this day we will build on the concepts in the handbook. .
The final step will be to attend a 1-hour Q&A session. This will allow you to ask any specific questions to a palliative care specialist.

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SWASFT Practice Educator – (non-accredited) e-learning module

All staff - All depts

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This e-learning course has been written by SWASFT to align with the CoP practice education guidance and has been written primarily with clinicians in mind. It is endorsed by the CoP and suitable for the NQP portfolio.
However, this non-accredited course is suitable for any staff who is involved in practice education or mentorship of other staff, and the learning outcomes and content are universal.

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Autism E-Learning- Glos Staff only

Available to all staff

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You can now access e-learning modules, produced by the National Autistic Society (NAS), to develop your knowledge of autism. These e-learning modules are fully funded, and therefore free to access, for anyone living or working in Gloucestershire.

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