IHCD Ambulance driving course.

As M&L is a London based company, and I am also London based, I have a good experience of this company, such as putting IHCD Techs without a driving qualification (was kicked off the Herts uni' course in first week of driving course and for some reason the Driving course was at the end due to scheduling issiues with trust driving courses), out on a rapid response car in wiltshire answering 999 calls.
Don't believe what you are told, and don't get into a position when they might owe you money.
 
Hey Mr Brightside, I've just finished the Ronin course and it was awsome!!!! Really good.. However ive been back a month now and all of us who are back (Four) are struggling to find jobs. We all qualified as remote medics which is ahigher qual than IHCD ambulance Technician. But sadly there just isnt much work going. So much so that 2 of the lads are now looking at other career paths already.
I would seriously advise you to do your IHCD Driving course as soon as you can. EMStar do quite a good course ive heard. I'm booked on to it in may.
Alot of private companies won't take you untill you've done that. And the two who do their own driving course (ERS and M&L) have no vaccancies due to the trusts reducing their commitments!
The Ronin course is amazing and if you want any advice please ask.
Enjoy
 
brooksy78 said:
Hey Mr Brightside, I've just finished the Ronin course and it was awsome!!!! Really good.. However ive been back a month now and all of us who are back (Four) are struggling to find jobs. We all qualified as remote medics which is ahigher qual than IHCD ambulance Technician. But sadly there just isnt much work going. So much so that 2 of the lads are now looking at other career paths already.
I would seriously advise you to do your IHCD Driving course as soon as you can. EMStar do quite a good course ive heard. I'm booked on to it in may.
Alot of private companies won't take you untill you've done that. And the two who do their own driving course (ERS and M&L) have no vaccancies due to the trusts reducing their commitments!
The Ronin course is amazing and if you want any advice please ask.
Enjoy
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Hi Brooksy78, yes im goin to definately do the driving course now before my money runs out. How much money is the emstar course ? Do u plan to go back out to Ronin when youve completed your hours ? Im busy at the minute with my nose stuck into the pre course study ha ha. Its good to hear from someone who has done the course...MB
 
I have every intention of doing the Ronin course, if I can get equivalancy with HPC as SrP, but luckily I already have my IHCD driving course and Tech qual + 10 yrs frontline in London. One way to get extra patient contact time is a company in Ghana called West African Rescue, they are a private ambulance company based in Accra and Takoradi, but will let you do six month contracts with accomodation etc, don't know how much they pay, just Google the name, any and all patient time is good for the CPD.
 
bigjl said:
I have every intention of doing the Ronin course, if I can get equivalancy with HPC as SrP, but luckily I already have my IHCD driving course and Tech qual + 10 yrs frontline in London. One way to get extra patient contact time is a company in Ghana called West African Rescue, they are a private ambulance company based in Accra and Takoradi, but will let you do six month contracts with accomodation etc, don't know how much they pay, just Google the name, any and all patient time is good for the CPD.
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Cheers bigjl, il look that company up, if all else fails then at least ive the option to go to Africa......MB
 
I have said to Timm (Ronin) that any Ronin graduates who meet our requirements (driving licence, CRB etc) will be guaranteed a position on our ambulances and we will provide further training as required. I have only offered this guarantee to Ronin graduates as theirs is the only course I can guarantee competence in Technicians. Other courses are a bit 'shake and bake'.

Once the Trust agree to having our ambulance out (and it is highly likely that they will as feedback has been excellent so far) we plan on putting a paramedic, IHCD trainee and one of our own Uni students on an ambulance. That way the student and IHCD tech trainee can rotate between driving and attending. If you only work as part of a two person crew then you have to drive while the paramedic does all the stuff you need to be observing. Also means an extra pair of hands to help with the lifting and carrying etc.

bigjl - you've met 'CG' then? Thrown off his driving course at Herts for calling the instructor a 'c**t' (and it's not a rumour as he told me himself that it was true). I would give the guy a chance personally, nice bloke; just needs some appropriate guidance and to control his temper. Won't listen to advice though and gets aggressive when you try and give him the benefit of your experience. I've seen him argue with a paramedic tutor of 30 years experience that he was correct and the tutor was wrong. When we all chipped in and tried to point out he was wrong we were 'all w*nkers who didn't know what we were talking about'.
 
Yes it was CG I was referring to, he was working for the now defunct Evolved doing A/E support, he always liked to drive but was shocked when they gave us a 999 call and ended up driving onto the M20 heading away from the job and pulling over to let me drive, never thought to tell me he couldn't drive on Blues, leading to a twenty minute delay in attending the patient as I had to drive a 20 mile detour as there was no way to turn around, and we all seen his more "aggressive" side, result was all the tust staff doing a bit of extra work refused to work with him, that was when he turned up on a RRV in Wiltshire with ML, they even continued to put him on an RRV when they where informed that he was still an 80%er. He may well be a decent bloke when you get to know him really well, but he has ideas well above his position, and I advised him more than once to keep his head down, but he never listened, I wouldn't let him work on any vehicle that may be sent to anythng more than PTS, not even urgent work as they are normally a lot iller than some emergencies. Sorry to hijack the thread, but it is very rare for somebody to grip my shit like him, especially when well intentioned advice is not taken.
 
Hijack away fella, everything you are saying is true. There was a group of five of us giving him advice along the lines of "two ears one mouth, use in proportion" but we were promptly told that we didn't know what we were talking about (although two of the group were Practitioners, one a HEMS para and CTL for Kent ambulance and the other two very experienced paramedics).

Yet here was an 80%er telling us we didn't know what we were talking about...
 
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