teza

Only BE, can copy and paste on other sites. As for SJOG, I only know of WA

Pollyana

I shall look into it.....

Certainly Queensland, with QAS, is paid staff. We have volunteer firefighters and SES but to me knowledge no volunteers in QAS itself. Shame they stopped sponsoring too, we used to have loads of Brits around the place - and the recruiting office used to read BE too

ScousieG

Thank you again Teza, i have applied with St Johns.

ScousieG

its always the way Pollyana, my wife is the brains of the operation as usual!

i will volunteer as a paramedic and try my best to get as many qals for Oz as possible.

thank you for the adice

old.sparkles

Is St. John of God and the St. John's Ambulance service the same?

I know there are St. John of God hospitals in Bunbury / Bussleton but assumed they were not related to St. John's Ambulance service.

Pollyana

Personally, I have no idea, but the link I posted came up when searching St John of God Ambulance WA. Teza seems to think its the right one

ScousieG

it appears the same when doing a google search both names tale me to St johns website.

teza

Could be brain fart on my part as too exhausted to think straight, Either way, hopefully I managed to help the OP

old.sparkles

Just checking - is it these who you meant Teza?

St John of God Health Care

ScousieG

i think its just hospital staff. thanks guys

Pollyana

They doj't appear to have paramedics

ScousieG

hehe yes correct just had a nose at the career drop down box nada.

old.sparkles

I didn't look that far - sorry

jad n rich

One of my kids is a student paramedic, but now double degree as the job situation at the end of it looks pretty slim to be honest.

Other issue is the violence towards them, the drug/booze culture, pretty dangerous job now. Horrendous incidents.

IN Qld and Victoria its definitely a UNI degree. Which as I said by no means guarantees work and its a very specific training, only really leading to that job.

One thing with the bigger states, a job could mean rural remote placement, as in 15 hours from the capital of that state for eg. Not for everyone, son is in Victoria as its smaller, less chance of ending up having to go to some hot hell hole.


Admire anyone who can do that job

moneypenny20

I'd query the 'now' tbh. Got several friends both here and in the UK who are paramedics and they've had loads of violent episodes since they started 10/20/30 years back. There have always been ****wits around sadly.