Discover your career for life
There are a range of different career paths you could experience within EEAST. Every role is important, and everyone plays a part in helping us achieve our vision – outstanding care, exception people, every hour of every day.
Whether it is in frontline, within our emergency operations centres (EOCs), our patient transport service (PTS), support services or administrative services – there is a career for life for you at EEAST.
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#CareerForLife - Our People
Whilst at a baby group with my son, I happened to speak to one of the managers who worked for the Trust at the time. This led to me starting on a bank contract and through various secondments and roles, I’m still here!
When I started back in 1995, I worked as a bank staff call taker within what was then called Medicom, moving from bank to part-time and then trainer to supervisor. After 10 years I moved over to the patient transport service (PTS), assisting on the control desk, taking bookings, and allocating vehicles, for around a year before becoming the operational resource coordinator (ORC). This involved keeping the ambulances on the road, organising things such as MOTs, services and completing crew rotas, as well as supporting the operations manager.
Whilst in this department, I trained on the road so I could cover operational shifts for PTS. During this time, I was seconded to set up an events team to help frontline crews get back into the work environment whilst on alternative working duties. The team would attend private events to supply medical cover, such as football games and I covered as an ambulance radio operator there for 10 years. The radio operator was the link between the stewards on the ground to the medics. If we got an alert in the control room, it would be my job to activate the nearest first aider, or upgrade to a paramedic if needed.
I also completed a six month secondment in clinical audit, where I was a manager facilitator, which involved receiving data and producing reports on various subjects. Following 10 years in PTS, we lost the PTS Norfolk contract, and I had to move to the private ambulance sector. However, I returned after six months to the role of Medicom supervisor.
That was eight years ago now and in that time I have moved from supervisor to Cambridge and Peterborough team leader, where I had my own successful team.
In 2023, I have been supporting the CallEEAST contact centre manager, which means I help with ongoing projects and CQC work - I’m really enjoying having a new challenge again.
Working in the east of England
Our Trust provides emergency and non-emergency care to patients in the east of England covering the six counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, Bedfordshire, Suffolk, Norfolk and Cambridgeshire.
You get to work in one of the most diverse areas of the country; the bustling capital city is on our doorstep and the bracing North Sea envelopes our shores to the east.
We've got historical cathedral towns and cities, brand new communities, rural broadlands and some of the busiest arteries of road and rail networks, including the M25, A14, M1, M11 and A12, and railway lines from London Liverpool Street out to Cambridge, Norwich, Peterborough, Colchester and Southend.
Wherever you go in the east of England there is always something to see and do; but if travelling around the UK and beyond is a must for you as well, the Luton, Stansted, Norwich and Southend airports couldn't make it more easier to stay in touch with loved ones or send you on a deserved holiday or short break.
Working with our Trust values
Here at EEAST, everything we do is underpinned by our five core values: care, teamwork, quality, respect and honesty.
These values guide us to deliver outstanding care to our patient and our communities.
If you share these values, we encourage you to join us.
View all of our vacancies to see what roles we have available now.