Security, Armed Services and Emergency Services - Paramedic
Security, Armed Services and Emergency Services - Paramedic
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Paramedics respond to emergency call-outs and give people life-saving medical help.
- Respond to emergency calls
- Assess situations when you arrive and check details with others at the scene, like the police
- Work calmly and quickly to stabilise patients
- Use a defibrillator to revive patients
- Give patients medicines and injections
- Help to deliver babies
- Attend non-emergency calls and decide whether patients need to go to hospital
- Check equipment regularly and keep accurate records
- Reassure family and members of the public who are on the scene
As a Paramedic, you could work on an ambulance, at a client's home or in the community.
Your working environment may be physically and emotionally demanding and outdoors some of the time.
You may need to wear protective clothing and a uniform.
Paramedics tend to work between 36 to 38 hours a week. You could work evenings, weekends and bank holidays on shifts.
Starting: 拢25,655
Experienced: 拢39,027
You can get into this work through a university course, an apprenticeship, working towards this role, apply for a trainee scheme.
You'll need to do a paramedic science degree approved by the Health and Care Professions Council.
Full-time courses usually take 3 years. You'll usually need 2 to 3 A levels, or equivalent, for a degree.
You can get into this role through a paramedic degree apprenticeship. There are no set entry requirements but it may help you to get in if you have 4 or 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C) and A levels, or equivalent, for a degree apprenticeship.
You could start as an ambulance care assistant or an emergency medical technician. With experience you could apply for a place on a paramedic training scheme. You would need to check the entry procedures and requirements with individual ambulance service trusts.