Emergency First Responders

Community. It means a lot to us, and it means a lot to our responders too. We all live here. Most of us grew up here.

That’s why, if you ask our team of Emergency First Responders, they’ll tell you it’s almost second nature for them to use the skills we’ve helped them acquire, to step up, step in and do what we’re trained to do, in the place they call home.

Our Emergency First Responders are ordinary people, doing extraordinary things. They come to us with little or no previous medical experience, just a willingness to learn life-saving skills and give up some of their time to be there to respond to calls for help in our community. They’re trained and equipped to deal with a range of serious medical incidents. Whenever needed, they can be quickly on-scene to provide a range of treatments including:

• Giving CPR, delivering shocks from a defibrillator, and breathing for a patient
• Administering oxygen to a patient with low oxygen levels to help their breathing
• Assessing a patient and starting life-saving treatment such as administering the patient’s autoinjector when they are suffering from a life-threatening allergic reaction.

At present we are not recruiting for this role whilst we prioritise onboarding and training our most recent recruits.

Applications for this role will re-open early next year.