Upskill your workforce with Ambulance Apprenticeships
Ambulance apprenticeships can enable your organisation to grow talent, develop a more motivated, skilled and qualified workforce. Having a workforce trained to higher standards, giving them nationally recognised qualifications is key to enable a modern ambulance service to thrive.
Apprenticeships are going through their biggest overhaul in a generation. No longer just for young people, they help staff of all ages and levels progress in work.
Med Learn Training are main providers of apprenticeships with the Education and skills Funding Agency and able to deliver the apprenticeships for:
Emergency Care Assistants (ECA)
Associate Ambulance Practitioner (AAP)
We work with you to provide complete delivery of apprenticeship training, ensuring that we embed your organisations values.
Our Apprenticeship Pathways:
Ambulance Support Worker
(Emergency, Urgent and Non-Urgent)
This apprenticeship is designed to take between 13-18 months to complete.
Qualifications Gained
- Skills for Health Care Certificate
- Level 3 Diploma in Ambulance Emergency and Urgent Care Support (RQF)
- Level 3 Certificate in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving (RQF)
- Level 2 Functional Skills in English
- Level 2 Functional Skills in Mathematics
Entry Requirements
- Must be over the age of 18
- Must have a full driving Licence with a minimum of 12-months driving experience
and no more than 6 endorsement points
Associate Ambulance Practitioner (AAP)
This apprenticeship is designed to take 18 months to complete.
Qualifications Gained
- Skills for Health Care Certificate
- Level 4 Diploma in Associate Ambulance Practitioner (RQF)
- Level 3 Certificate in Emergency Response Ambulance Driving (RQF)
Entry Requirements
- GCSE in English and Mathematics or equivalent
- Must be over the age of 18
- Must have a full driving Licence with a minimum of 12-months driving experience and no
more than 6 endorsement points
Ambulance Apprenticeships for NHS and Independent Providers
To discuss your needs as an employer of apprentices, please get in touch with us.
Employer Frequently Asked Questions
We have compiled a list of frequently asked questions regarding apprenticeships.
Yes – Whilst we have our own pre hospital training centre in Lincolnshire we are able to travel nationwide. This is however subject to meeting our venue standards.
Yes – the government will support training for any of your current staff.
Existing employees from the shop floor to director-level are eligible for apprenticeships. In fact, higher-level apprenticeships for senior staff are some of the fastest growing groups of apprenticeships.
How you employ your staff is your choice, an apprentice must complete on average 30 hours a week.
Your apprentices will need to be provided with a placement mentor that is qualified at the same level but ideally one level above the apprentice.
Whilst there are no requirements for mentors to have a formal mentoring qualifications, it is reccomended by our awarding organisations. We may be able to provide formal mentor training for your staff.
We will work with you to ensure the programme we deliver suits the needs of your business.
Still have questions?
Contact UsWhat you pay your apprentices is a decision for your business to make, you must however not pay them less than the national minimum wage.
Apprentices must spend 20% of their contracted working hours undertaking Off-the-Job Training (OJT) which is defined as “learning which is undertaken outside of the normal day-to-day working environment and leads toward the achievement of an apprenticeship.”
All this training will be provided by us as the training provider.
The apprentice is entitled to be paid throughout their time on the apprenticeship whilst they are training and on placement.
As well as releasing apprentices for their initial training you must also release them to complete maths and English sessions/assessments and the end point assessments.
End-point assessment (EPA) is the final stage of an apprenticeship. It is an impartial assessment of whether your apprentice has developed the skills, knowledge and behaviours outlined in the apprenticeship standard.