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Aggregated Workforce Plan for Ambulance Services. Joan Fletcher, Ambulance Workforce Lead. Aggregated Plan. Aggregation of individual Trust data Provide a national perspective on the changing shape of the ambulance workforce
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Aggregated Workforce Plan for Ambulance Services Joan Fletcher, Ambulance Workforce Lead
Aggregated Plan • Aggregation of individual Trust data • Provide a national perspective on the changing shape of the ambulance workforce • Provide information to support the development of a nationally consistent model for pre registration education and funding
Direction of Travel • No ‘one best’ or national model • Each Trust planning workforce model to meet needs of service delivery model • However there are national trends in the skill mix of the emergency and urgent care services workforce
Emergency Care Practitioners • All Trusts planning an increase to support ‘see and treat’ • Predominantly described as Emergency Care Practitioners although other roles are described • Plans suggest the source is predominantly Paramedics
Paramedics • Increase in total Paramedic numbers • Balance between first level and Senior/Advanced Practitioners varies between Trusts • Source of increase is upskilling of existing Technicians as well as new entrants
Technicians • All Trusts planning reduction in Technician numbers as existing Technicians are progressed to Paramedics • Extent and speed of change in skill mix varies between Trusts
Support Worker/Assistant roles • All Trusts planning the development of assistant roles • These are predominantly described as Emergency Care Assistants or Emergency Care Support Workers • The number of assistants as a percentage of the total emergency and urgent care workforce varies between Trusts
Education and Training • Education model that provides the opportunity for career progression • Delivery in partnership between service and education providers