Charlie Ballam | My life as a locum paramedic Can you give a brief outline of your career to date? I qualified as a paramedic in 2009 and worked full time for the NHS for 2 years in Dorset. I then moved to Australia for a year and a half, where I worked as a remote area medic. Upon my return to the UK, I trained as an Offshore Medic and split my work between offshore dep...

In case you missed the news, Katie Price is considering a career change: she wants to train as a paramedic. Has she got what it takes? Well, maybe. Here’s why... Katie’s got five kids, which makes her a solid multi-tasker. Being a mother – let alone to five children – means she’s used to juggling different needs and most of all, remaining calm under pressure. She’l...

This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611 I have done between 20-30 careers fairs and open days to promote the ambulance service. Some events have attracted school leavers and young university applicants, whereas others have attracted a much broader range of (older) people with much more life experience who also...

This blog post was written by Matt Green, a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611The Trauma Care 2017 conference (@TraumaCareUK) was held at Staffordshire’s Yarnfield Park 15-18 March.In total, there were over 26 conference streams and an incredible 200 speakers! Hundreds, if not thousands, of delegates included pre-hospital and in-hospital clinicians, f...

Kirsty Elton is our Business Development Manager, a Yorkshire lass, and a vocal proponent of our Medicnow HALO teams…  Known mostly for beautiful landscapes of green, dry stone walls, tea and of course our ability to chat to anyone... Yorkshire is definitely a beautiful place to live. What you may not know is that like the rest of the country, our Emergency Department...

Matt Green is a paramedic for an NHS Trust. Follow him on Twitter @MLG1611 “Time of death 1854 hours.” There. You said it. You ended someone’s life. You’re 21 years old, still living with your parents and barely an adult in many eyes but you’ve just welded one of the biggest emotional swords available. They are dead and it’s because you said so. You recently registered...

If you’re thinking about joining Medic Now as part of a PTS team, or as an ECA, Technician or Paramedic, then our assessment days are a great opportunity to meet the team, ask questions and make sure that working for us will work for you. Join us for our next assessment day at Keele University on the 20th of September. If you are keen to find out ways that your career ...

Ralph Chadkirk is a paramedic for an NHS Ambulance Trust. You can follow him on Twitter @rchadkirk  It is inevitable that, at some point in their career, a healthcare professional will make a mistake. We are all human, and we all have the same fallibilities: tiredness, hunger, pressure and cognitive biases. In short, “to err is human”. We hope that if we do make a mist...

Medic Now, the UK’s leading recruitment agency for ambulance professionals, has been awarded a place on the new National Clinical Staffing Framework for the NHS. Being awarded a place on Lot 1 and 2 of the National Clinical Staffing Framework, developed for the NHS by the NHS Collaborative Procurement Partnership 1 temporary, permanent and fixed term staff to clinical pos...

Our partners at The Academy of Professional Development have offered us two free places one of their Paediatric Urgent and Emergency Care (PUEC) Courses. This 2-day course, designed for paramedics and ambulance staff, will look in detail at the seriously ill or injured child, and includes some of the more common presentations from a urgent care perspective. The normal ...

The recent heatwave has caused mounting pressure for A&E departments across the country. Medic Now specialises in deploying ambulance professionals across the emergency and urgent care settings. We're encouraging hospitals to look at integrating our Hospital Ambulance Liaison Officers (HALO) into their Emergency Department workforce to support patient care, especially during...

Every career in pre-hospital care starts with a first day. Well, two first days. The first day of training, and the first day of placement, when you put all the training to the test on real patients who actually depend on you. Almost every course, from basic first aider to student paramedic and beyond, builds heavily on the DR(c)ABCDE model that any emergency can be compe...

Matt Green, paramedic for Medic Now and the South Central Ambulance Service asks the Friday Frontline Question. Follow him on Twitter @mlg1611  I really enjoy leaving patients at home. There is an enormous professional satisfaction in responding to a 999 call, providing a thorough assessment and formulating a good discharge plan to leave the patient in the comfort of thei...

This week, we’ve been talking to Tim Needham, a specialist paramedic, about his work with a local GP surgery… I joined the ambulance service and thought that this will be my career for life, I will work here in this trust helping people until I retire in 40 years. How things change!​ So now, 15 years have past and I am moving on, if only partially. I have a great balan...

This week, we’re chatting to Francine Barrow, a qualified paramedic for an NHS Trust. Francine’s entrepreneurial spirit recently prompted her to make a business venture out of her years of hard work by selling her homemade revision flashcards. Here we learn a bit more about Francine, her struggle to become a paramedic and her interesting sideline. How did you become...

​Do you know a qualified Paramedic or Paramedic Practitioner looking for work? Perhaps a family member, friend or a colleague in your current workplace is looking for additional work? Or more flexibility whilst working in the emergency care sector? One option open to them is to join us! As a Medic Now candidate, we believe that you will know the best candidates for the in...

June could be a great month for Medic Now - we’ve made the finals of both the Buckinghamshire Business Awards and The Global Recruiter Awards. Launched in 2006, the Buckinghamshire Business Awards are the county's leading business awards. The awards play a major role within the county, showcasing the entrepreneurial spirit and vision of the community, which in turn presen...

This post was originally published on The Broken Paramedic’s blog. You can follow him on Twitter @BrokenParamedic Dear frontline ambulance colleagues, After 12 years of responding to 999 calls and subsequently watching from the sidelines as family and friends continue to do so, I am only too aware of the ever increasing pressures and the ongoing erosion of the ambulanc...

Are you a potential candidate?  PTS required for Peel Island, Coniston Water.  We are looking for a dynamic student paramedic for a short-term contract in the North West of England.  This is an excellent opportunity for you to earn while you learn in an environment relevant to your career, working as an EM clinician and providing patient transport service for groups...

This week on our weekly tweetchat, we will be asking the paramedic community of Twitter to answer the following question: “How important is your appearance when carrying out your job?” It’s a contentious issue, and some of you may feel that your personal appearance has no bearing whatsoever on your ability to carry out your duties; you are of course highly-skilled, hig...