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I've got some paracetamol and bananas I pyjamas plasters, I'm nearly ready.
 
Speaking to some of the lads that do this job, it is easy to see why they get disheartened. Mopping up drunks all weekend and getting verbal abuse for it would be very wearing after a while.

Hats off to them I say. They provide a lifesaving service and get treated like shite by Government and some patients.
 
squashjoe said:
Anyone ready to do this job, Why are we looking abroad?
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£££. Like everything else, why bother to spend state money training them when we can take them from abroad for free?

I think @cornish mackem is a paramedic. I'm sure there are others on here who'll have an input.

I think it's a university course now as well which IMO restricts entry to people and makes it harder to get into, but I could be wrong about that.
 
I outed myself when I let my guard down a few weeks ago and yes, you are right.
There are loads of people willing to do the job in the UK but the prospect of 9k per year university fees when you can get paid to do the nursing degree puts lots of good people off.
Imo opinion we wouldn't have an issue if so many people hadn't left over recent years and you will never get those people back.
Those people have left the service for lots of reasons and its not just the coin. In the 24yrs of service Iv been spat at dozens of times, 2 knives pulled on me, 1 gun, verbally assaulted so many times that I have forgotten, Iv never had a formal debrief from any shitty jobs Iv been to, 2 back operations and tablets every day for the pain. Shift work, stress, insomnia the list is endless and all for a basic salary of just under 28k. Christmas working, missing birthdays, told when I can have my holidays, late finishes, no breaks and capability hearings if I go sick. I know so many of you have poor terms in your jobs and I hear them but how many peoples off days can lead to the loss of muliple lives and state registration which I have to pay for.
We have lost 4 of 15 paramedics on my station from August till dec last year. This is high mind but I know of more on our station that are looking elsewhere now.
Oh, I am also expected to carry your nanna down the stairs when I'm 68 too.
You did ask.
 
cornish mackem said:
I outed myself when I let my guard down a few weeks ago and yes, you are right.
There are loads of people willing to do the job in the UK but the prospect of 9k per year university fees when you can get paid to do the nursing degree puts lots of good people off.
Imo opinion we wouldn't have an issue if so many people hadn't left over recent years and you will never get those people back.
Those people have left the service for lots of reasons and its not just the coin. In the 24yrs of service Iv been spat at dozens of times, 2 knives pulled on me, 1 gun, verbally assaulted so many times that I have forgotten, Iv never had a formal debrief from any shitty jobs Iv been to, 2 back operations and tablets every day for the pain. Shift work, stress, insomnia the list is endless and all for a basic salary of just under 28k. Christmas working, missing birthdays, told when I can have my holidays, late finishes, no breaks and capability hearings if I go sick. I know so many of you have poor terms in your jobs and I hear them but how many peoples off days can lead to the loss of muliple lives and state registration which I have to pay for.
We have lost 4 of 15 paramedics on my station from August till dec last year. This is high mind but I know of more on our station that are looking elsewhere now.
Oh, I am also expected to carry your nanna down the stairs when I'm 68 too.
You did ask.
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You nearly graft as much as us squire....
 
cornish mackem said:
I outed myself when I let my guard down a few weeks ago and yes, you are right.
There are loads of people willing to do the job in the UK but the prospect of 9k per year university fees when you can get paid to do the nursing degree puts lots of good people off.
Imo opinion we wouldn't have an issue if so many people hadn't left over recent years and you will never get those people back.
Those people have left the service for lots of reasons and its not just the coin. In the 24yrs of service Iv been spat at dozens of times, 2 knives pulled on me, 1 gun, verbally assaulted so many times that I have forgotten, Iv never had a formal debrief from any shitty jobs Iv been to, 2 back operations and tablets every day for the pain. Shift work, stress, insomnia the list is endless and all for a basic salary of just under 28k. Christmas working, missing birthdays, told when I can have my holidays, late finishes, no breaks and capability hearings if I go sick. I know so many of you have poor terms in your jobs and I hear them but how many peoples off days can lead to the loss of muliple lives and state registration which I have to pay for.
We have lost 4 of 15 paramedics on my station from August till dec last year. This is high mind but I know of more on our station that are looking elsewhere now.
Oh, I am also expected to carry your nanna down the stairs when I'm 68 too.
You did ask.
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suppose ive got a similar job (plod) and can totally see where your coming from,
ive asked myself if it is really worth it and it definitely is not!
 
abbs said:
suppose ive got a similar job (plod) and can totally see where your coming from,
ive asked myself if it is really worth it and it definitely is not!
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I'm looking to get out but I'm not really employable for much else and with the bairn at school, I can't take any risks. As soon as she's finished education, I'm gone. The qualification I have are not university based as I started well before this route.
I do still like some parts of the job, bits where I make a difference are second to none but they are few and far between now and the more bitter and twisted I get, the less common these moments are.
We leave 60% of our emergency calls at home, send to gps, chemists, or district nurses. That's a lot of ambulances doing stuff that another agency gets paid for.
An old lass said to me the other night who had a long standing thing going on. A gp job 100%. She called 999 as she knew we would come out. She knew it was a gp job. It had been for the last few weeks
 
I was a paramedic in previous life. Worked from the fire station in the hood. Money was shit, plus you are out making calls all day and night whilst he firemen cook, eat, sleep and watch telly, p,us study for promotional tests. When I found out my preceptor was still the lowest rank whilst his regional chief had been a student of his, I realised I was on a hiding to nothing.
 
cornish mackem said:
I outed myself when I let my guard down a few weeks ago and yes, you are right.
There are loads of people willing to do the job in the UK but the prospect of 9k per year university fees when you can get paid to do the nursing degree puts lots of good people off.
Imo opinion we wouldn't have an issue if so many people hadn't left over recent years and you will never get those people back.
Those people have left the service for lots of reasons and its not just the coin. In the 24yrs of service Iv been spat at dozens of times, 2 knives pulled on me, 1 gun, verbally assaulted so many times that I have forgotten, Iv never had a formal debrief from any shitty jobs Iv been to, 2 back operations and tablets every day for the pain. Shift work, stress, insomnia the list is endless and all for a basic salary of just under 28k. Christmas working, missing birthdays, told when I can have my holidays, late finishes, no breaks and capability hearings if I go sick. I know so many of you have poor terms in your jobs and I hear them but how many peoples off days can lead to the loss of muliple lives and state registration which I have to pay for.
We have lost 4 of 15 paramedics on my station from August till dec last year. This is high mind but I know of more on our station that are looking elsewhere now.
Oh, I am also expected to carry your nanna down the stairs when I'm 68 too.
You did ask.
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I for one appreciate what you people do, it's disgusting the way you are treated both by gov's and some of the public.
 
cornish mackem said:
I'm looking to get out but I'm not really employable for much else and with the bairn at school, I can't take any risks. As soon as she's finished education, I'm gone. The qualification I have are not university based as I started well before this route.
I do still like some parts of the job, bits where I make a difference are second to none but they are few and far between now and the more bitter and twisted I get, the less common these moments are.
We leave 60% of our emergency calls at home, send to gps, chemists, or district nurses. That's a lot of ambulances doing stuff that another agency gets paid for.
An old lass said to me the other night who had a long standing thing going on. A gp job 100%. She called 999 as she knew we would come out. She knew it was a gp job. It had been for the last few weeks
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majority of the response plods want to get out but most cant, my circumstances at the minute mean I can!
got things set up and I cant wait!
 
Iv never done the job for the plaudits and I have avoided the cameras and awards like most people do. We just want to get on and do the job what we joined to do. The bellends are s very very small part of the job thankfully and the vast majority of joe and Josephine public really are nice people who are chuffed that you have pitched up to give them a hand. The unfortunate bit that seems to make the papers recently are the ones we don't get to in a reasonable time. Honestly though, if you got rid of the calls that don't need an amb, car or the staff to keep them on the road, you don't need to recruit from overseas, you already have enough, possibly too many.

These reasons have added a bit of spice to the strike action this week. It's not just about the 1%

Tex said:
I was a paramedic in previous life. Worked from the fire station in the hood. Money was shit, plus you are out making calls all day and night whilst he firemen cook, eat, sleep and watch telly, p,us study for promotional tests. When I found out my preceptor was still the lowest rank whilst his regional chief had been a student of his, I realised I was on a hiding to nothing.
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Iv taken out lots of students who have claimed the ladder and if I was career minded it would really put the nail in my coffin, but I'm not that way inclined. Iv seen these people climb the slippery pole and do very well but for every 1 I have seen 2 come crashing back down in a heap.
 
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