Call for Community First Responders

Interested in becoming a Community First Responder?  

Cllr Paul Hodgkinson, Lib Dem Health Spokesperson in Gloucestershire, is backing a new recruitment drive aimed at helping patients who face emergency or serious health problems:

“Ambulance response times in the North Cotswolds have deteriorated and I have voiced my impatience at a recent meeting at Shire Hall with NHS bosses. But now I'm supporting the call locally for ‘Community First Responders’ who arrive at an emergency scene first to help a patient before an ambulance arrives.”

SW Ambulance Service are welcoming applicants from throughout Gloucestershire; however they are particularly interested in people from the following areas:

Berkeley, Bourton on the Water, Churchdown, Cirencester, Chipping Campden, Fairford, Lechlade-on-Thames, Mickleton, Moreton in Marsh, Newent, Northleach, Stroud, Stow on the Wold and Winchcombe, Wotton-under-Edge.

A Community First Responder (CFR) scheme is made up of a group of trained volunteers within the community in which they live or work who attend emergency calls on behalf of South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust to provide patient care, including basic life support and Defibrillation skills until the arrival of an emergency ambulance.

Full details here: https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/jobadvert/C9202-25-0045?keyword=community%20responder&location=Gloucestershire&distance=5&language=en