East means Counties in the old ‘East’ divisional area of Southwestern Ambulance service NHS Foundation Trust. It may not match with geographical counties
Registered healthcare professionals – paramedics.
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.
Registered healthcare professionals – paramedics or nurses.
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.
Info & BookingRegistered healthcare professionals – paramedics or nurses.
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.
Info & BookingAll patient facing staff.
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.
Info & BookingExpression of interest for registered clinicians
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.
All SWAST Staff
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.
Info & BookingAll SWASFT staff.
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.
Designed predominantly for front-line staff (registrants & non-registrants), but non-clinical staff are also very welcome to sign up.
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.
Available to all staff and students
Managing a patient experiencing an out of hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) requires quick thinking and the ability to use the latest technology to deliver a high-quality resuscitation attempt.
This 1-day workshop focuses on the importance of high-quality CPR and utilising advanced monitoring features on Trust ZOLL X-Series defibrillators.
The EAA uplift programme is only suitable for those staff that have been moved into the EAA Preceptee position by HR, who have been informed they are eligible for this.
We will be trialling self-booking of the EAA uplift programme for certain groups of staff. If you are in one of these staff groups, information will have been sent to you direct to let you know you can self-book.
Open to all staff.
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.
All SWASFT staff.
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.
Registered staff - All depts
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.
Suitable for all staff and students. May be most applicable for staff who have contact with patients.
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.
This year we will be trialling self-booking of Education Days for certain groups of staff.
If you are in one of these staff groups, information will have been sent to you direct to let you know you can self-book.
Certain groups may be booked on by their team administrator to coordinate locally - they will inform you if your group is using this method.
Registered clinicians
This comprehensive course uses state-of-the-art BLIS facility (Blended Learning Interactive) and is designed to enhance the knowledge and skills of healthcare professionals in the field of electrocardiography (ECG). It is intended to provide participants with a deeper understanding of ECG abnormalities, their interpretation and their implications for patient care. By the end of this course, participants will be better equipped to advance patient care and education, understand pathophysiological mechanisms, anticipate possible escalations, and become more skilled and effective members of the healthcare team
Info & BookingAll staff welcome to sign up, but this training is predominantly aimed at staff who don't necessarily have any clinical training.
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.
Info & BookingAvailable to registered clinicians (+AP's and AT's & students).
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.
All staff & students - most beneficial to patient focused roles
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.