Factor 1
| Awareness of evidence based practice |
0.901
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
Core professional skills α = 0.9428 | Leadership, mentoring, and supervision |
0.851
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research, statistics, and information retrieval skills |
0.837
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Underpinning knowledge in law and ethics |
0.818
| 0.364 | 0.000 |
| Underpinning knowledge of biological sciences, including anatomy, physiology, and pathology |
0.799
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
| An understanding of current issues, clinical governance and the role of others within the wider health economy |
0.754
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Awareness of and regard for professional issues such as: autonomy, accountability, confidentiality, and a code of professional conduct |
0.736
| 0.446 | 0.000 |
| Literate and numerate |
0.733
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Skills and knowledge from recognised emergency care courses such as: prehospital trauma life support, advanced life support, prehospital paediatric life support |
0.723
| 0.000 | 0.326 |
| A range of clinical skills to enable them to manage a range of common emergency conditions, for example; first aid, life support, defibrillation, airway management, drug administration |
0.712
| 0.339 | 0.000 |
| Skills in clinical and personnel management |
0.712
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Familiarity with emergency medical equipment and its operation |
0.595
| 0.586 | 0.000 |
| Underpinning knowledge of common emergency conditions in adults and children |
0.587
| 0.385 | 0.000 |
| Communication skills: written, verbal, and electronic |
0.461
| 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Intellectual skills to enable the interpretation of clinical data, the implementation of clinical judgement and decision making, and the formulation of a diagnosis |
0.453
| 0.420 | 0.000 |
Factor 2
| Caring, empathic, and values life | 0.000 |
0.860
| 0.000 |
Role model α = 0.948 | Patient centred | 0.000 |
0.846
| 0.000 |
| Non judgemental, non-discriminatory | 0.000 |
0.825
| 0.000 |
| Ability to take a history and conduct patient assessment and examination of both adults and children | 0.406 |
0.810
| 0.000 |
| Honest | 0.000 |
0.810
| 0.000 |
| Common sense | 0.341 |
0.770
| 0.000 |
| Mental health skills | 0.000 |
0.726
| 0.000 |
| Professionalism | 0.485 |
0.715
| 0.000 |
| Practical (pragmatic) | 0.359 |
0.685
| 0.000 |
| Aware of and adherence to national and local guidelines and policies | 0.562 |
0.668
| 0.000 |
| Physically fit for the role, manually dextrous with good hand eye coordination | 0.000 |
0.663
| 0.000 |
| Role model for others | 0.000 |
0.614
| 0.304 |
| Team player with ability to work alone | 0.414 |
0.521
| 0.000 |
| Self aware, recognising personal responsibility and limitations | 0.508 |
0.511
| 0.475 |
Factor 3 Lifelong learning α = 0.8375 | Ability to learn, including the ability to use reflection and learn from experience | 0.000 | 0.000 |
0.919
|
| Skills in teaching and presentation | 0.361 | 0.000 |
0.845
|
| Commitment to self development | 0.485 | 0.326 |
0.702
|
| Skills and awareness of manual handling and health and safety | 0.000 | 0.546 |
0.657
|
| Skills and underpinning knowledge of advanced driving | 0.000 | 0.412 |
0.594
|
| Familiarity with local operational area | 0.000 | 0.425 |
0.558
|
| Brave | 0.000 | 0.389 |
0.448
|