24-T05 - Framework Agreement for Lot 1 - Supply of external tutor(s) for Driver Training Courses and Lot 2 - Outsourced Driver Training Courses (including the Tutor(s), vehicles and venues)

The Authority employs a specialist Driver

Training Unit that is looking to supplement it

with additional qualified trainers to operate from

centres throughout the Authority's

region (Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex,

Hertfordshire, Norfolk, and Suffolk).

Volumes of personnel requiring training fluctuate

with changes to workforce

requirements and additional directly employed

trainers are being recruited, but the

outsourced supplementary trainers could

account for approximately 25% of the total

team.

Driver Training includes the use of ambulances,

patient transport vehicles and rapid

response vehicles. Students needs depend on

whether the students are Ambulance

Care Assistants (ACA), Emergency Care

Assistants (ECA), Emergency Medical

Technicians (EMT) or Paramedics operating on

A&E response vehicles or Patient

Transport Services or other clinical groups.

The Authority delivers a range of both

Emergency and Non-Emergency driving courses.

The Emergency Response Ambulance Driving

Course duration is currently 20 days and

Non-Emergency Services Driving Course is

currently 5 days. The course duration may

be subject to change during the life of this

Framework.

In addition to requiring an approved tutor for the

duration of a course, there may be

occasions when tutors are required for shorter

periods of time e.g. possibly for one

week only.

The courses are accredited by FutureQual. The

awarding body may be subject to

change during the life of this Framework.

Volumes of personnel requiring training will

fluctuate with changes to workforce

requirements.

Driver Training includes the use of ambulances,

patient transport vehicles and rapid

response vehicles. Students needs depend on

whether the students are, Emergency

Care Assistants (ECA), Emergency Medical

Technicians (EMT) or Paramedics operating

on A&E response vehicles or other clinical

groups.

The Supplier will be required to deliver both

Emergency and Non-Emergency Driving

Courses.

The Supplier must be an accredited company and

hold the recognised qualification to

deliver the FutureQual courses.

The Supplier will be required to deliver the

following courses: including but not

limited to:

FutureQual Level 3 Certificate in Emergency

Response Ambulance Driving (L3CERAD)

FutureQual Level 3 Award in Patient Care

Services: Ambulance Driving

The FutureQual Level 3 Certificate in Emergency

Response Ambulance Driving

(L3CERAD) course duration is currently twenty

(20) days and conducted over four (4)

weeks. The FutureQual Level 3 Award in Patient

Care Services: Ambulance Driving is

course duration is currently five (5) days and

conducted over one (1) week. Course

duration may be subject to change during the life

of this contract. Suppliers must

follow the Futurequals accredited course

learning.