Ambutech Limited

Ambutech Limited Monitoring visit report

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Name of lead inspector: Suzanne Horner, His Majesty’s Inspector

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Inspection dates: 28 and 29 October 2025

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Type of provider: Independent learning provider

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Address: Grafix House 6 Boundary Road Swinton Manchester M27 4EQ Monitoring visit: Ambutech Limited, 28 and 29 October 2025

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Context and focus of visit

Ofsted undertakes to carry out monitoring visits to all newly directly funded providers of apprenticeship training provision funded by the Education and Skills Funding Agency and/or the apprenticeship levy. This monitoring visit was undertaken as part of those arrangements and as outlined in the ‘Further education and skills inspection handbook’, especially the sections entitled ‘Monitoring visits’ and ‘Monitoring visits to providers that are newly directly publicly funded’. The focus of these visits is on the themes set out below.

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Context and focus of visit

Ambutech Limited is an independent learning provider based in Swinton, Manchester, in the north west of England. Ambutech Limited specialises in providing apprenticeships for the pre-hospital ambulance care sector. At the time of the monitoring visit, there were seven apprentices in learning. Almost all apprentices were on the level 3 ambulance support worker apprenticeship, with a very few on the level 4 associate ambulance practitioner apprenticeship. All apprentices are aged 18 years and over.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have a clear rationale for the apprenticeship curriculums that they provide. They train apprentices to become skilled clinical technicians as associate ambulance practitioners and ambulance support workers. This supports the care sector’s skills need for pre-hospital ambulance care staff.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders and educators have developed ambitious curriculums that help apprentices quickly develop their knowledge and skills. Apprentices complete additional training and qualifications such as first response emergency care, airway management, level 3 safeguarding and administrating inhaled pain relief medications. This enables apprentices to gain additional responsibilities at work.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have an accurate oversight of the strengths and weaknesses of the provision. They have appropriate quality assurance processes in place such as standardisation meetings and teaching observations to monitor and improve the quality of training. Leaders are rightly aware that they need to take a more stringent approach to quality assurance and are working diligently to develop the self- assessment and quality improvement plan.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders provide apprentices with high-quality resources to enhance their learning. Monitoring visit: Ambutech Limited, 28 and 29 October 2025 Apprentices have access to ambulances, rapid response cars and simulation mannequins. Apprentices benefit from practising medical techniques such as using animal offal to rehearse inflating lungs.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders ensure that educators are qualified and highly experienced in paramedicine and patient care. Educators retain their vocational currency by continuing to work as practitioners in the sector. However, training to develop educators’ teaching skills is still to be implemented.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have appropriate governance arrangements in place. Leaders plan to strengthen these arrangements by recruiting external governors with specialisms in education.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have sequenced the curriculum in a logical order. Apprentices learn adult and paediatric basic life support before moving to more complex emergency immediate life support. Apprentices confidently apply their learning in practical situations using medical mannequins and accurately calculate the electrical energy needed, using the Joule measurement, to shock the heart with a defibrillator.

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Reasonable progress

On- and off-the-job training is coordinated effectively with employers. Apprentices learn about the respiratory and coronary systems before progressing to cardiac arrest modifications, resuscitation decisions and trauma patient assessment and management. Apprentices swiftly apply their learning at work to confidently and competently assess and manage patient trauma. They treat members of the public who have had seizures, have sustained minor injuries or are unconscious.

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Reasonable progress

Educators use high-quality resources to teach apprentices. They use applications of three-dimensional images effectively to support teaching and demonstrate bodily functions such as the bronchial airways in the lower respiratory tract.

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Reasonable progress

Apprentices receive useful feedback from educators. Apprentices know what they have done well and what they need to do to improve their written work. During practical assessments, educators skilfully provide oral feedback to apprentices. This supports apprentices in swiftly developing and applying their skills in a range of medical situations.

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Reasonable progress

Educators use questioning to check apprentices’ knowledge and understanding and address misconceptions. However, they do not consistently check whether the whole group understands topics such as the circulatory system. This means that gaps in individual apprentices’ knowledge are not always identified. Monitoring visit: Ambutech Limited, 28 and 29 October 2025 English and mathematics are embedded carefully in the curriculum. In English, apprentices learn to write unambiguous patient reports, use complex technical terminology and incorporate referencing in their written work. In mathematics, apprentices calculate systolic and diastolic blood pressure and accurately administer medication to patients.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders place a high priority on keeping apprentices safe. The safeguarding team is qualified and experienced. Leaders complete a range of appropriate checks when appointing new staff to make sure they are suitable to work with apprentices.

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Reasonable progress

Leaders have implemented appropriate processes, procedures and systems to report, record and monitor any safeguarding incidents. However, as there have not been any safeguarding incidents at the time of the visit, these systems have yet to be tested.

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Reasonable progress

Apprentices feel safe. They know who they can talk to if they have concerns. Apprentices have a clear understanding of fundamental British values and the dangers of radicalisation and extremism. Apprentices adopt safe working practices when they are at work and wear the correct personal protective equipment. Monitoring visit: Ambutech Limited, 28 and 29 October 2025 regulates and inspects to achieve excellence in the care of children and young people, and in education and skills for learners of all ages. It regulates and inspects childcare and children’s social care, and inspects the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service (Cafcass), schools, colleges, initial teacher training, further education and skills, adult and community learning, and education and training in prisons and other secure establishments. It assesses council children’s services, and inspects services for children looked after, safeguarding

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Reasonable progress

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