Ambulance Service

Variety

Risk to self and colleagues

Helping people

Hassle abuse long hours

Variety, feel like I’m making a difference

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

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.

Helping people in need

Long hours
Demands of the job
Poor management

Working with no manager looking over your shoulder

Constant time constraints

Helping people in their hour of need

Ever changing policy that makes working conditions more difficult

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

A job like no other

Condition.

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

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

Team , and helping others

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

Patient outcomes

Dealing with management
Unable to have family time

making a difference

not making a difference

Helping people

Unrealistic targets and time constraints

Meeting different people and helping them

Time constraint and inappropriate calls

Colleagues, helpingbpeople

Hours, shift work