Restrictive Intervention Training in Ambulance Services on behalf of NHS England/Improvement

The procurement contact named on the official notice.

To engage an experienced provider of conflict resolution, disengagement and physical intervention training and learning to provide a risk assessed comprehensive, accessible and innovative training and learning program.

The programme must be, which is evidence based and adopts a human rights and restraint reduction approach whilst also meeting the unique needs of the national ambulance sector.

2.2 Objectives (i) Conduct a national training needs analysis to identify a suite of restrictive intervention skills which to increase and maintain the safety of staff and patients (ii) Review the current conflict resolution training (CRT) offer in each trust in order to develop an interoperable restrictive intervention learning programme which combines this existing CRT offer (iii) Understand current restrictions on abstractions with ambulance service staff for attendance at statutory and mandatory training and subsequently develop a package that can be delivered (iv) Produce an ambulance service bespoke learning programme which includes interactive, multimedia methods of delivery and innovative solutions to ensure minimal disruption to service delivery and satisfy current (future) Covid restrictions (v) The programme that is developed will need to meet national, legislative and organisational requirements and duties (vi) Produce a learning programme which can be delivered by inhouse qualified learning and development specialists through a train-the-rainer model (vii) Provide a method of on-going quality assurance