Just before Christmas, NSW Ambulance welcomed 16 new paramedic interns and 18 trainee emergency medical call takers after they were officially inducted into the service at a ceremony at the State Operations Centre in Sydney.
Joining the 518 paramedics and 140 emergency medical call takers who have already been inducted into the service this year, these new recruits will further boost frontline health services across the state, when they start their roles from tomorrow.
The new recruits joining the service come from a range of backgrounds and experiences, including trainee call taker Jamie Wales, who has five years call taking and dispatch experience with London Ambulance Service. Originally from Sydney, she is coming home to be with her family and looking forward to continuing her profession at Sydney Control Centre.
Interns posted across NSW
The paramedic interns will be posted across NSW to complete the on-road portion of their 12-month internships before taking permanent positions in metropolitan and regional areas.
The emergency medical call takers will be posted to the Sydney, Northern and Western Triple Zero (000) control centres.
Each year, NSW Ambulance receives more than 1.1 million Triple Zero (000) calls for assistance and the ambulance vehicles travel more than 46 million kilometres to keep the community safe.
NSW Ambulance provides high quality clinical care, compassion, relief of pain and suffering and rescue and retrieval services to the more than 8.1 million people of NSW.
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