Welsh Ambulance Service Tel: 08717 179514
Community First Responders
The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Training Agency supports the Welsh Ambulance Services NHS Trust Community First Responder Schemes.
Become a Community First Responder
The Welsh Abulance Services NHS Trust, South East Region are currently recruiting for Community First Responders in their area.
RESPONDERS NEEDED NOW FOR :
Maerdy & Ferndale Community First Responder Scheme
If you live in The Maerdy or Ferndale areas of the Rhondda Valley, the Meardy & Ferndale Community Responder Scheme is currently looking for people to Volunteer and join the scheme to make a difference in your local community.
All Training will be provided free of charge for those joining this scheme.
For further information Contact Anne on 07807 456569
Help Make a Difference in your community!
Throughout South and East Wales, community first responders have been playing a vital role in saving lives for several years. Although every Category "A" Life Thretening Emergency will get a rapid response from the ambulance service where either a Rapid Response Paramedic or a double crewed emergency ambulance will attend, it is those life saving minutes prior to the arrival of the ambulance staff that can make the difference.
Having a community foirst responder available to respond in a local community can help to save lives.
First Responders can make a difference
First Responders provide vital live-saving treatment within the first minutes of an emergency.
Whether it is in a busy city such as Cardiff or Newport, or a rural area such as Blaencwm, Meardy or Monmouth, the importance of having trained people on hand willing to provide emergency assistance before the arrival of the ambulance service vehicles and staff has been frequently highlighted with many people walking around in our communities that would not have had it not been for the prompt actions of Community First Responders.
The quicker a heart attack victim receives treatment, the greater their chance of survival.
First Responders are in place accross Wales. They have made a positive and prolonged difference to the lives of heart attack victims.
First Responder Training
Community Volunteers are trained by the Welsh Ambulance Service to carry out basic life saving skills, recognise cardiac conditions, perform Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation and how to use a defibrillator.
The Welsh Ambulance Service provides the necessary support needed to continue to carry out the role.
Community First Responder Schemes are an additional resource, which enables people to learn the skills necessary to deliver life saving skills prior to the arrival of an ambulance.
All Community First Responders receive training from ambulance personell. Ambulance Service Team Managers will support responders and provide update training every 6 months.
Who are our First Responders
Community First Responders are members of the public who have all undergone Criminal Records Bureau checks. They are ordinary people who want to help others in their communities. They are milk men, council workers, mothers, fathers, drivers, shop workers, basically, they are just like anyone else in the community, except, the First Responders have been trained by the ambulance service and help to save lives in their communities.
If you live in Wales then why not get in touch.
The number for the South East Wales Regional First responder Officer is:
Mr. Toni Rossetti
Telephone: 02920 932917
Supported by The Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Training Agency