Experience

National Ambulance Resilience Unit

• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Operations Officer

  • May 2022 - Present



The National Ambulance Resilience Unit

• Safe System Co-Ordinator

  • Nov 2020 - May 2022



National Ambulance Resilience Unit

• Instructor

  • Jul 2017 - Nov 2020

  Course Director for all national Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Paramedic courses and USAR final exercises. HART EDBA Instructor Responsible for the co-ordination and development of all national training competencies and assessment criteria relating to HART skill-sets. Course Director for all national Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Paramedic courses and USAR final exercises. HART EDBA Instructor Responsible for the co-ordination and development of all national training competencies and assessment criteria relating to HART skill-sets.



South Central Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Paramedic

  • Jul 2010 - Nov 2020

• HART Team Leader

  • Apr 2017 - Jul 2017

• HART Educator

  • Jun 2015 - Apr 2017

• Acting HART Educator

  • Dec 2013 - Aug 2014

• HART Operative

  • May 2012 - Dec 2013



Oxfordshire Fire and Rescue Service

• Acting Crew Manager

  • Mar 2007 - Sep 2019

• Firefighter

  • Sep 2004 - Mar 2007



National Ambulance Resilience Unit

• SOP and Training Competencies Coordinator

  • Jan 2017 - Apr 2017

  4 month secondment focusing on the alignment and development of training competencies and policy: to ensure they meet the deadlines, standards, and requirements of the new national safe system of work currently being implemented across all NHS Ambulance HART units in the U.K. A key element of this has been to create easily-interpretable, user-friendly documentation that will stand-up to any scrutiny by the Health and Safety Executive or any other external agency. A request was made to my primary employer - by NARU - for the secondment to be extended, however this was not authorised due to current operational pressures.



National Ambulance Resilience Unit

• Instructor

  • Aug 2014 - Jun 2015

  Delivery of all components of the HART IRU and USAR Paramedic programmes - including the response to incidents involving: CBRNe, confined space, working at height, heavy transport, and mass casualties. Assisting with the research, design, and delivery of all components of the HART IRU and USAR Paramedic programmes. I co-authored and implemented the now-established HART Initial EDBA course: hosted at the Fire Service College. Commitment to delivering high-quality, immersive, realistic training - utilising the latest in casualty simulation technology, actors, moulage, and mannequins - to simulate the pressures faced by responding Paramedics within the inner cordon of a major or hazardous incident. I also led on a project to redesign the Faculty's casualty cards - to better reflect the observations required to determine triage categories, dependant on triage algorithm used. Working, and developing partnerships with the wider CBRN/USAR multiagency community related to NARU's training. This included: delivery of CBRNe-specific training to military personnel, management and co-ordination of partner agency guest speakers and role-players, as well as a deployment to Cameroon alongside PHE and PH Wales colleagues, to deliver bespoke practical training on the pre-hospital response to a suspected or confirmed Ebola incident within their country. This was delivered to medical (hospital) staff of all grades, in-partnership with national aid organisations, and the Cameroonian Ministry of Health. Flexible working - including working away from home, being prepared to work anywhere within the UK at short-notice, and weekend travelling. Being prepared to undertake further training and development appropriate to the role: On completion of the secondment, I had achieved the following qualifications: EDBA Instructor PRPS Instructor USAR Paramedic Instructor Managing Confined Spaces Draeger Technician: PSS100 and PSS7000 sets