This module consolidates the knowledge, learning and skills you’ve gained from clinical modules by applying them in your clinical and simulated practice placement. You’ll be supported in your clinical placement by a named Practice Educator and university Placement lead. 

You’ll apply skills and learning such as: 

• Professional HCPC standards of conduct performance and ethics 

• Inter-professional and multi-disciplinary working  

• Patient assessment and management 

• Use of appropriate equipment in the assessment and management of the patient 

• Compliance with the appropriate mandatory training 

• Compliance with any local statutory requirements from the placement providers  

• Demonstration of skills and competency-based assessment 

• Simulated placement activities  

This module introduces you to the biopsychosocial, cognitive, political, economic, and medical factors which influence the health and wellbeing of individuals, diverse populations and communities. You’ll work with peers from other professions to consider how collaborative practice impacts on health and wellbeing outcomes, and helps you thrive in your own professional practice.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Models of care, support and empowerment 

• Social capital and cultural humility  

• Social accountability and determinants of health  

• Safeguarding practice  

• Public health agendas, inquiries and evidence-based reports  

• Building effective, trusting relationships   

• Community profiles and place-based care systems  

• Person-centred service delivery  

• Behaviour change and microaggressions 

• Diversity and inclusion 

• The effects of planetary health on wellbeing 

This module introduces the fundamentals of paramedic practice using problem-based learning – developing your knowledge of anatomy, physiology and the application of patient assessment skills. We blend both synchronous and asynchronous teaching methods, including mixed group activities in the classroom and online.  

You’ll study topics such as: 

• The foundations of anatomy and physiology 

• Principles of physiology across the body systems 

• Patient assessment  

• Obtaining baseline observations 

• Medical model 

• Communication skills 

• Assessing mental capacity  

• Managing your own mental health 

• Applying theory to case-based problems  

• UK and international research 

This module uses theory and practical application to develop your patient assessment and treatment skills, providing a dynamic response to changes in the patient condition. We blend both synchronous and asynchronous teaching methods, including mixed group activities in the classroom and online.   

You’ll study topics such as: 

Assessing and managing an intermediate life support patient 

• Fundamentals in assessing and managing a trauma patient  

• Adapting clinical practice after conducting a dynamic scene assessment 

• Understand fundamental ECG interpretation 

• Further anatomy and physiology and pathophysiology knowledge  

• Applying theory to case-based discussion and practical scenarios 

• Caring for our own mental health following traumatic incidents 

This module consolidates your progression to graduate-level study and professional practice, reflecting on your role as a professional who delivers safe and effective person-centred care. You’ll be supported to identify influencing factors on your professional practice – developing strategies which support you to thrive personally, professionally and academically. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Reflective practice and writing skills 

• Personal and professional development and identity 

• Emotional intelligence 

• Self-perception, privilege and introduction intersectionality and allyship  

• Self-management, feedback and leadership 

• Ethics in professional practice 

• Communication methods and techniques 

• Contemporary policy for professional practice 

• Teamwork and collaborating across professional boundaries 

• Personal behaviour and self-assessment techniques 

• The impact of behaviours, values, research and anti-oppressive and inclusive practice  

This module is your chance to apply your professional knowledge, skills and values in an integrated manner. You’ll work collaboratively with peers from other disciplines to assess, intervene and overcome the challenges of complex health and social care situations – supporting individuals, groups and communities.    

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Drivers for integrated and person-centred health and social care  

• Inter-professional teamworking across multiple service interfaces   

• Shared ethical decision-making, collaboration and co-production 

• Assessment, treatment planning, evaluation and risk management 

• The realities of living with long-term conditions and multi-morbidities  

• Mental capacity, best interest assessment, equality and reasonable adjustments  

• Resilience, communication, breaking bad news, difficult conversations   

• Interpersonal and systemic discrimination in health and social care 

• Inclusive language and terminology including challenging microaggressions  

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems

This module gives you the opportunity to use the knowledge, learning and skills you’ve gained so far and apply them to your practice placement. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as: 

• Professional HCPC standards of conduct performance and ethics 

• Inter-professional and multi-disciplinary working  

• Patient assessment, diagnosis and management  

• Recognition and interpretation of ECGs  

• Use of appropriate equipment in the assessment and management of the patient 

• Compliance with the appropriate mandatory training 

• Compliance with any local statutory requirements from placement providers  

• Competency-based assessment 

• Problem-based and simulated placement activities  

This module expands on your level 4 knowledge of patient management, assessment and ECG recognition – paramedic skills, interventions and how to apply them to medical patients, including patients in cardiac arrest. You’ll learn pharmacological interventions with underpinning knowledge of pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics in relation to paramedic practice, through a blend of group activities in the classroom and online. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Managing a medically unwell patient with appropriate assessment/treatment 

• Perform safe and effective paramedic clinical skills 

• Manage the deteriorating patient safely and competently  

• Lead an adult advanced life support as per UK Resuscitation guidelines 

• Applying the principles of pharmacology theory  

• Therapeutic medications, dosages and drug routes 

• Legal implications of the supply and administration of prescription-only medications  

• Identify contemporary issues relating to patients' own pharmacological regime

This module expands your knowledge in the assessment, management and treatment of adult trauma patients – including scene safety, multi-agency working and leading a team – while making justified, effective and safe clinical decisions. You’ll learn through a blend of teaching methods, with mixed group activities both in the classroom and online. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Trauma-related pathophysiology across the adult lifespan 

• Trauma assessment in line with national/regional trauma guidelines 

• Management of trauma patients underpinned by latest clinical guidelines 

• Application of trauma equipment, including special patient group considerations  

• Utilisation of pharmacological interventions within current trauma care 

• Advanced Life Support (ALS) in trauma patients 

• Minor wound assessment and treatments 

• Multi-agency working, interoperability and joint working principles 

• Initial and ongoing response to incidents 

• Major incident / mass casualty incident response 

• Triage considerations and utilisation 

• Specialist resources relevant to trauma care  

This module introduces you to research and enquiry design and methods. You’ll be able to apply them to an area of investigation – considering factors that impact on literature appraisal – preparing you to undertake and manage an investigation as a professional practitioner. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• What makes a good question  

• Research design, types of evidence and suitability of methods 

• Co-production – patient and public involvement 

• Inclusive perspectives of research  

• Data collection methods, strengths and weaknesses 

• Analysis techniques 

• Usefulness/impact and implications for practice 

• Ethics and governance 

• Sample of existing appraisal tools 

• Searching and critically reviewing the literature  

This module uses the knowledge, learning and skills you’ve gained in clinical modules, applying them to your practice placement. 

You’ll apply skills and learning such as: 

• Professional HCPC standards of conduct performance and ethics 

• Inter-professional and multi-disciplinary working  

• Use of a medical model for patient assessment 

• Management of the patient across the age range 

• Use of appropriate equipment in the assessment and management of the patient 

• Compliance with the appropriate mandatory training 

• Compliance with any local statutory requirements from the placement providers  

• Application of skills and competency-based assessment 

• Problem-based and simulated placement activities

This module develops your systematic understanding of leadership and education concepts in practice. You’ll critically reflect on these in the context of collaboration within health and social care practice – considering how you can effectively support people who use services, their carers and families, and communities who have complex health and care needs to thrive.  

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Differences between management, leadership and the role of the critical follower 

• Leadership theories, models and styles most relevant to health and social care  

• Self-awareness and seeing ourselves as leaders 

• Recognising our own personal impact, rank, power and privilege  

• Professional cultures, traditional hierarchies and becoming an agent of change  

• Leading psychologically safe, anti-racist and inclusive teams  

• Resilience, volatility and acknowledging the wellbeing needs of the workforce  

• Sustainable practice, quality improvement and leadership 

• Tackling inequalities in health and social care through advocacy and education 

• Technology-enabled care and digitalisation within integrated care systems 

This module enables you to assess the health-related needs of service users with illness or injury, demonstrating competence in clinical management. You’ll learn through group activities in the classroom and online. 

You’ll study topics such as:  

• Complex clinical decisions  

• Medical models of assessment  

• Cranial nerve assessment                            

• Abdominal assessment                                                        

• Neurological assessment  

• Respiratory assessment  

• MSK assessment                                                                                                                  

• Health promotion and make every contact count (MECC) 

• Comorbidities    

• Documentation for complex cases 

This module develops existing patient assessment and management skills, adapting application to specialist patient groups within paramedic practice. You’ll explore physiological, clinical considerations and modifications within complex patient presentations, using current UK and international evidence to inform patient-centred intervention and clinical decision-making. 

You’ll study topics such as: 

• Assessment and management of the paediatric patient  

• Paediatric (PALS) and newborn life support (NLS) 

• Maternity: ‘normal’ birth management  

• Obstetric complications, recognition and management 

• Mental health presentation and management considerations 

• Bariatric presentation, physiological changes and clinical considerations  

• Older patient management complexities 

• End of life care (EoLC) management complexities 

• Pharmacology considerations in specialist populations 

• Safeguarding considerations around referral in complex populations

This module enables you to undertake a sustained, in-depth piece of independent learning, demonstrating a critical understanding and applying appropriate research methods within a piece of work. This work will challenge and contribute to improvements in areas of practice through the dissemination of findings to professional communities. 

You’ll apply learning and skills such as:  

• An individual independent project/dissertation 

• Creating and contributing to research and evaluation for practice 

• Application of approaches to research 

• Research, improvement and evaluation methodologies 

• Addressing inclusivity in your research process 

• Dissemination of project outcomes 

• Challenges in applying research outcomes to practice