Ambulance Service job reviews

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• Best thing

  No two days are the same I get to meet wonderful people and help them If I have to. Gaining more experience and knowledge about people disabilities or sickness in order to know how to talk with them.

  Worst thing

  Management
  Staff backstabbing
  Gossiping

  2.4

  Ambulance Service Ambulance care assistant, December 2022

• Best thing

  Pay, training

  Worst thing

  Some managers aren’t understanding

  7.3

  Ambulance Service Emergency care assistant, July 2022

• Best thing

  Job satisfaction

  Worst thing

  Work related stress

  6.6

  Ambulance Service Employee, June 2022

• Best thing

  Patient contact

  Worst thing

  Pay and stress

  7.3

  Ambulance Service Ambulance care assistant, May 2022

• Best thing

  Helping people
  Benefits

  Worst thing

  Stressful
  Poor time management by control
  Poor time management by management and flow centre
  Poor communication
  Poor management attitude across NHS partners
  Lack of support for progression
  Lack of training and advancement
  Poor movement ability for those without a C1
  Inability to change roles without maths or English GCSE even if you have higher qualifications
  Poor peer attitudes

  2.8

  Ambulance Service Employee, April 2022

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• Best thing

  Easy Shifts

  Worst thing

  Sat around alot

  3.9

  Ambulance Service ECA, September 2021

• Best thing

  Good money

  Worst thing

  Long hours
  Travelling miles

  3.0

  Ambulance Service Technician, July 2021

• Best thing

  The colleagues I work with and the patients

  Worst thing

  No pay rise and hardly seeing my manager.

  8.2

  Ambulance Service Employee, July 2021

• Best thing

  The people I work with.
  The unsocial pay.
  The unpredictable nature of the job is exciting

  Worst thing

  The stress and lack of resources
  The verbal abuse from the public
  The lack of understanding from management of how hard the job is

  7.0

  Ambulance Service Employee, July 2021

• Best thing

  I work for small private ambulance company, stress free decent pay and I'm a person not a number on a seat

  Worst thing

  I have to be flexible to point of fluid but the door swings both ways

  8.6

  Ambulance Service Shift supervisor, June 2021

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• Best thing

  Get to look after patients.

  Worst thing

  1. No welfare of crews.
  2. poor state of vehicles sometimes un roadworthy but still taken out as told no spare vehicles so no shift pay if refuse.
  3. poor stock quality of consumables,
  4. No management communication
  5. Forced to work longer hours and only get 30 minutes breaks. Often finish late and 50+ miles away from base station.

  3.0

  Ambulance Service Employee, June 2021

• Best thing

  Helping people. Being part of a fantastic team.

  9.7

  Ambulance Service Call handler, April 2021

• Best thing

  Helping people

  Worst thing

  Stressful, not enough resources

  8.2

  Ambulance Service Duty manager, April 2021

• Best thing

  The job is a good job. And a secure job

  Worst thing

  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.

  8.0

  Ambulance Service EMT, April 2021

• Best thing

  Variety

  Worst thing

  Risk to self and colleagues

  2.3

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, March 2021

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• Best thing

  Helping people

  Worst thing

  Hassle abuse long hours

  5.0

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, March 2021

• Best thing

  The pay

  Worst thing

  Lack of resources

  4.5

  Ambulance Service Allocator, March 2021

• Best thing

  It's difficult but super rewarding

  Worst thing

  The subject of calls

  9.5

  Ambulance Service Call handler, March 2021

• Best thing

  Helping people who need medical treatment

  Worst thing

  Not much spare time between shifts and low pay

  5.5

  Ambulance Service Employee, March 2021

• Best thing

  Getting paid

  Worst thing

  Solitary with no social aspect outside of work

  4.2

  Ambulance Service Call handler, March 2021

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• Best thing

  The patients

  Worst thing

  Bad corruption in management

  4.3

  Ambulance Service Ambulance care assistant, March 2021

• Best thing

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

  Worst thing

  Can be stressful and you deal with some distressing incidents

  9.6

  Ambulance Service Call handler, February 2021

• Best thing

  Variety, feel like I’m making a difference

  Worst thing

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

  3.0

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, February 2021

• Best thing

  The colleagues & daily duties

  Worst thing

  The travel time in calls

  8.7

  Ambulance Service ACA, February 2021

• Best thing

  Variety and the people I work with.

  9.8

  Ambulance Service Call handler, February 2021

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• Best thing

  Sick pay,

  Worst thing

  Working long shifts affecting work life balance and health.. Refusal of work to get static hrs

  2.6

  Ambulance Service Employee, January 2021

• Best thing

  Helping others

  Worst thing

  Tragic outcomes of jobs I’ve attended

  4.6

  Ambulance Service EMT 3, January 2021

• Best thing

  Caring for people

  Worst thing

  Staff assaults, late finish, no meal breaks

  7.0

  Ambulance Service Ambulance care attendant, January 2021

• Best thing

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

  Worst thing

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

  9.4

  Ambulance Service EMT, January 2021

• Best thing

  I get to help people

  Worst thing

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

  4.5

  Ambulance Service Team leader, January 2021

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• Best thing

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

  Worst thing

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

  3.2

  Ambulance Service Patient transport, January 2021

• Best thing

  Colleagues, variety.

  Worst thing

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

  8.2

  Ambulance Service Emergency care practitioner, December 2020

• Best thing

  Regular pay

  Worst thing

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

  3.0

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, December 2020

• Best thing

  Actually making a difference

  Worst thing

  Lack of respect or appreciation from management and public.

  3.2

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, December 2020

• Best thing

  Caring
  Saving lives
  Making a difference

  Worst thing

  Hours
  Over runs
  Assaults

  5.5

  Ambulance Service Emergency care assistant, December 2020

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• Best thing

  Helping people in need

  Worst thing

  Long hours
  Demands of the job
  Poor management

  3.7

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, December 2020

• Best thing

  Working with no manager looking over your shoulder

  Worst thing

  Constant time constraints

  4.1

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, December 2020

• Best thing

  I help people

  Worst thing

  I don't get to help people that often.

  2.1

  Ambulance Service Associate practitioner, December 2020

• Best thing

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

  Worst thing

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

  6.4

  Ambulance Service Team leader, December 2020

• Best thing

  Job satisfaction

  Worst thing

  No support from manager

  8.0

  Ambulance Service Emergency care assistant, December 2020

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• Best thing

  Saving lives and bringing in new

  Worst thing

  Late finishes, missed meal breaks

  8.2

  Ambulance Service Technician, December 2020

• Best thing

  Helping people in their hour of need

  Worst thing

  Ever changing policy that makes working conditions more difficult

  5.0

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, November 2020

• Best thing

  Wages, sick pay

  Worst thing

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

  5.0

  Ambulance Service Ambulance care assistant, November 2020

• Best thing

  Out and about
  Helping people
  Camaraderie

  Worst thing

  Danger
  Always late
  Burnout
  Awful pay

  4.1

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, November 2020

• Best thing

  The 1% of proper emergencies

  Worst thing

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

  6.0

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, November 2020

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• Best thing

  Flexi

  Worst thing

  Overruns and hospital delays

  9.6

  Ambulance Service Ucs, November 2020

• Best thing

  A job like no other

  Worst thing

  Condition.

  4.5

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, November 2020

• Best thing

  Helping others
  Like a family

  Worst thing

  Unsocial hours
  Night shifts
  111

  6.0

  Ambulance Service Emergency care assistant, November 2020

• Best thing

  The variety. The reward of doing your job well

  Worst thing

  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.

  8.7

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, November 2020

• Best thing

  Regular pay,
  Sick pay,

  Worst thing

  Stress levels

  7.8

  Ambulance Service Paramedic, November 2020