SWAST Practice Education Team

This week we met the University of Gloucestershire year 3 students to talk about recruitment opportunities within SWASFT and the Newly Qualified Paramedic (NQP) process. It was great for the students to meet NQP Jess who was able to talk about lived experiences since qualifying.

The National Education and Training Survey is now open. shape your future and share your experiences. hee.nhs.uk/nets-2024 1st Oct to 26th Oct. #NHS #NETS2024 Enter our prize draw #swast

We are at the UWE Glenside Freshers fair today. It is lovely and sunny, so come along and say ‘hello’.

Calling all SWASFT Undergrads! Join our Student Town Hall on 14/6 @ 11AM. Get updates and ask questions on FTSU, One Team, SLEC & more! Submit Q’s in advance: SWASFT email &bulleton for links #SWASFT #studentownhall

Practice Education Facilitator Mike and Human Resources Service Officer Hannah attended the University of Gloucestershires ‘Preparation for your Futures Day’ to discuss recruitment and the NQP process within SWASFT. Thank you to those who attended and asked lots of questions.

This week the Practice Education team attended the University of Gloucestershire on the Student Support Day. The team met with the year 1 cohort in preparing them for ambulance placement with SWASFT, thank you to our guest speakers who attended the sessions.

On Tuesday the Practice Education Team attended the University of Gloucestershire Health and Social Care Careers Event, it was great to be able to talk to other allied health care programmes about their future options.

Some of the Practice Placement Team will be attending the Student Paramedic Conference today, come say hello and chat to the team. . #paramedic #studnetparamedic #paramedicstudent

Last week was a busy week for the Practice Education Team delivering student inductions to one of our partner universities @UWEPara Good luck to the cohort who will now go onto ambulance placement with us.

Bournemouth University year 1 students attending the Student Support Day in preparation for ambulance placement in the new year. . . #studentparamedic #paramedicstudent #paramedicstudnets #nhsparamedic #paramedicplacement

As part of our continued focus on students and ensuring we are listening and acting on student experience whilst on placement, we are hosting student town halls with Execs & senior leadership team. First townhall will be 21/09/23 at 12pm (1hr) please see Teams link in your email

Virtual listening event for PE’s. Recently we have been sharing & implementing improvements to student experience. NHS England would like PE’s to share their experiences. Events take place on 19th & 27th September. Email Practice Placement Team for the link.

Welcome back to our students who are rejoining us this new academic year. We would also like to post a warm welcome to our new first year students, we are looking forward to meeting soon and good luck to our January and February students who are in their final placements.

New RLI (Review, Learn, Improve) Dates available to students. Please see the SWAST Practice Placement Facebook page for more information.

Are you a 2nd or 3rd year student paramedic with one of our partner HEI’s? Are you interested in a day just for you, our future workforce? South Western Ambulance Service are excited offer this to you, information please check your emails for more details or contact the PPC team.

The Team SWASFT app has now been updated to include a Student and Practice Educator section which can be located under the L&D tab. #swast #swasft