Education Qualifications and Awards · RQF Level 5
AOFAQ Level 5 Diploma UKARMT Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
You don’t just earn this. You learn to use it, one-to-one, on your own real work.
- LevelRQF Level 5
- Total credits240
- Guided learning1,200 hours
- Units in this qualification9
Awarded by Education Qualifications and Awards · on the Ofqual register
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What you’ll learn
What each unit actually teaches you to do
These are the units Education Qualifications and Awards registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated, and every one you earn is yours to keep.
Advanced Pre-Hospital Life SupportReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Use a range of methods to manage an airway
- Manage a range of airway emergencies
- Manage a range of respiratory emergencies
- Perform resuscitation on a range of patients
- Understand the pathophysiology of shock
Ambulance OperationsReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the current best practice in the event of a major incident
- Know about common terrorism threats
- Understand the role at a hazardous material incident
- Understand the role of safeguarding children and young people in England and Wales.
- Understand the different types of abuse and how to recognise them.
- Understand the key principles of legislation which protects children and young people in England and Wales
- Understand the process for reporting suspected child abuse.
- Know the principles of safeguarding within a health and social care context.
- Know the different types of
Clinical HoursReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Demonstrate a standard of acceptable conduct, performance and ethics in a clinical placement.
Fundamental Principles of Professional PracticeReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles in the provision of pre-hospital care in the UK.
- Understand the principles of personal wellbeing
- Understand key legal and ethical responsibilities
- Communicate effectively in a range of situations
- Carry out a piece of research in pre-hospital care practice
Management of Medical Conditions in the Pre-Hospital EnvironmentReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and manage a range of cardiovascular emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of neurological emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of endocrine emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of allergies and anaphylactic emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of gastrointestinal emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of renal and urological emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of toxicological emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of haematological emergencies
- Assess and manage a ra
Management of Special Patient GroupsReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Assess and manage a range of pregnancy related emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of paediatric emergencies
- Assess and manage a range of elderly emergencies
Management of Traumatic Injuries in the Pre-Hospital EnvironmentReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the mechanism of trauma
- Assess and manage a range of wounds
- Assess and manage a burn injury
- Assess and manage a head injury
- Assess and manage a spinal injury
- Assess and manage a chest injury
- Assess and manage an abdominal injury
- Assess and manage arrange of musculoskeletal injuries
Patient Assessment in the Pre-hospital EnvironmentReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the principles of patient assessment
- Take a history from a patient
- Examine a patient
- Understand the critical thinking and clinical decision-making process
- Understand the importance of clinical documentation
Pre-Hospital PharmacologyReal unit · Education Qualifications and Awards
What you'll be able to do
- Know the core principles of drug administration
- Administer medication via a range of routes
The honest bit
You’ve started things before
Most courses were built for a room full of people who aren’t you. A cohort moves on whether or not your week allowed it, and by the third week the thing you’re behind on becomes the reason you stop opening it.
There’s no cohort here, and no timetable to fall behind. Before anything starts, Zavmo asks when you’re sharpest and how long you can realistically sit down for, then builds the sessions around those answers. A bad fortnight changes your pace. It doesn’t put you behind.
And you only pay once you start learning. Searching and planning are free, and you can cancel any time — so the cost of finding out is an afternoon, not a year.
Your passport
Every credit is a stamp you keep
Level 5 credits are regulated. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you’ve earned and what’s next.
Each stamp is a real unit registered against this qualification.
Who’d teach you this
The Evidence Evaluator
Assessor
Helps you show what you can actually do, gathering the evidence that proves it as you learn.
Meet all twelve tutorsWhere this connects
Where these credits take you
A qualification is never a dead end here. See the jobs its credits open, the national occupational standards its units map to, and the future skills they quietly build.
- Assess and plan care for a patient with potentially reversible renal rejection
- Assess physical complications of established renal failure
- Assess the likelihood of allergy in an individual
- Assess whether home haemodialysis is feasible for a patient
- Design a management package for an individual at risk of an acute allergic reaction
- Diagnose an individual’s severe and potentially severe, complex, multi system allergies
- Investigate and diagnose an individual presenting for emergency assistance with altered consciousness, dizziness, faints and fits
- Investigate and diagnose an individual presenting for emergency assistance with tissue trauma
Skills it covers
What the job actually needs. These are the standards the units are built against, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
How you’ll actually learn this
One-to-one, on your own real work
A qualification is usually something done to you: sit the class, sit the exam, hope it sticks. Here it’s the opposite. You learn it one-to-one with a companion, on your own real work, and you keep going until you can use it, not just recall it.
Applied to your own work
- Remember
- Understand
- Apply
- Analyse
- Evaluate
- Create
Built for AOFAQ Level 5 Diploma UKARMT Advanced Emergency Medical Technician
9 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Education Qualifications and Awards.
- Advanced Pre-Hospital Life Support
- Ambulance Operations
- Clinical Hours
- Fundamental Principles of Professional Practice
- Management of Medical Conditions in the Pre-Hospital Environment
- Management of Special Patient Groups
and 3 more in the full unit list below.
One to one, not one to many
No two people run this the same way
A course is written once and handed to everyone. This is assembled around you, and keeps changing as it learns you. Five things it reads, and what each one changes.
- Your actual work Every unit is taught against a live piece of your own work, not a worked example from a textbook.
- What you already know The first conversation finds your starting point, so you skip what you can already do and spend the time on what you cannot.
- The conditions you learn under Not a learning-styles quiz. The evidence does not support those. The dimensions the research does back, read once and used to shape the plan.
- How far you got last time It picks up mid-thought. The tutor knows what you said, what you struggled with, and what it asked you to try.
- Which tutor suits the moment Twelve of them, each for a different kind of thinking. The one who walks you through a first idea is not the one who stress-tests it.
See how you learn, free. Eight questions, no sign-up. A directional taster; the diagnostic inside Zavmo goes deeper and keeps adapting.
Why it sticks
Most courses stop at remembering
There’s a well-known ladder of how deeply you learn something, called Bloom’s Taxonomy. Most courses get you up the first two rungs: you remember some facts, you pass a test, you forget it. Real skill lives at the top. Judging, deciding, creating. And this isn’t a generic ladder: every rung has a named Zavmo tutor who walks you up it.
- 6CreateThe Creative Catalyst
- 5EvaluateThe Evidence Evaluator
- 4AnalyseThe Analyst
- 3ApplyThe Coach
- 2UnderstandThe Connector
- 1RememberThe Builder
Where most courses leave you Where Zavmo takes you
The value
Why the companion is worth £70 a month
You’re not paying for the units. They’re regulated, and the same wherever you earn them. You’re paying for the one thing that decides whether you actually get there: a companion that makes them stick, on your real work.
That is one-to-one on this qualification, every day, on the work you already do, for £70 a month. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it. Billed monthly, cancel any time and billing stops.
Earned on your own work, taught to the top.
Everything you just read, learned one-to-one on the job you already do. Your first module is free, so you can see the teaching before you pay for any of it.
Build my plan, freeNo card. See how this qualification maps onto your role and meet the tutors who’d teach it, free. The learning begins when you subscribe. It’s £70 a month, billed monthly. Cancel any time and billing stops.