Ambulance Service

The job is a good job. And a secure job

Pay is continuing to be erroded. Will soon be a minimum wage job. Compared to being in excess of twice minimum wage 10 years ago.
Management treat us like children and treat all staff equally badly with equal levels of contempt.

Variety

Risk to self and colleagues

Helping people

Hassle abuse long hours

The pay

Lack of resources

The sense of achievement and knowing what you do makes a difference

Can be stressful and you deal with some distressing incidents

Variety, feel like I’m making a difference

Relentless, late breaks and finishes, hard to get annual leave when you want it

The colleagues & daily duties

The travel time in calls

The travel to and from work

Helping others

Tragic outcomes of jobs I’ve attended

Caring for people

Staff assaults, late finish, no meal breaks

Patient care, helping folk in their time of needs me laking a difference in people’s lives

Paperwork and other parts of the care network not doing their part for the patients they serve

I get to help people

The wrong people are in high power joba
Abused and misused service

rewarding feeling when its a good day and your patients are happy

lack of respect, the expectation that you will work in any manor even against the policies that have been set

Colleagues, variety.

Lack of personal management collaboration. Lack of understanding. No personal meetings regarding role.

Regular pay

Management, bullying, shifts, hours, lack of support, lack of training and advancement, missed meal breaks and poor pay.

Actually making a difference

Lack of respect or appreciation from management and public.

Caring
Saving lives
Making a difference

Hours
Over runs
Assaults

Helping people in need

Long hours
Demands of the job
Poor management

Working with no manager looking over your shoulder

Constant time constraints

I help people

I don't get to help people that often.

The job it self is great you meet different people everyday and staff are a good bunch

The higher management haven’t got a clue and are trying to micro manage us to death.

Job satisfaction

No support from manager

Saving lives and bringing in new

Late finishes, missed meal breaks

Helping people in their hour of need

Ever changing policy that makes working conditions more difficult

Wages, sick pay

Never finishing on time, made to feel guilty for leaving on time after a 12 hour shift

Out and about
Helping people
Camaraderie

Danger
Always late
Burnout
Awful pay

The 1% of proper emergencies

Long hours attending driving to people under emergency conditions, who don't need any emergrncy intervention - most of the job

Flexi

Overruns and hospital delays

A job like no other

Condition.

Helping others
Like a family

Unsocial hours
Night shifts
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Management and lack of welfare.

The variety. The reward of doing your job well

Pressure of the workload. Long delays at hospital. Inappropriate calls that increase both of the above. A sense, sometimes, that nobody really appreciates what you are doing/achieving.

Regular pay,
Sick pay,

Stress levels

The job itself

No professional

Helping people

Managements clandestine plans that are detrimental to patients and staff

The difference you make to other people

Time targets and pressure from management

Satisfaction when my input has lead to a good outcome.

Overworked. Constant late finishes and late or missed breaks

Long time off

Shifts , stress

Team , and helping others

Long shifts , no breach’s , and it breaks you mentally and physically , with no support from mangers

Being able to care for the patients

Management

Holiday and sick pay

Low staff poor planning

Patient outcomes

Dealing with management
Unable to have family time

I’m my own boss and I meet lots of interesting people

Queuing at the hospitals for hrs at a time

I enjoy caring for patients

Lack of understanding from management

making a difference

not making a difference

Being out and about, meeting new people. Job satisfaction.

Low pay for the skilled Professional job me and my colleagues do.

Helping people

Unrealistic targets and time constraints

Knowing most shifts in advance

People die. Working Christmas

Having to sit at desk all day and be timed when you. Go to the loo then a very rushed 30mins break

Saving lives

Poor quality vehicles