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Community First Responder - Wiltshire

South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust

Location
Salary
Unpaid
Profession
Ambulance and emergency care
Deadline
17 Jul 2025
Contract Type
Voluntary
Posted Date
20 Jun 2025

Job overview

“Exciting volunteering opportunities have arisen within South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust for Community First Responders to join Community First Responder schemes across Wiltshire.

We welcome applicants from throughout Wiltshire; however we are particularly interested in people from the following areas:

Ludgershall, South of Devizes, Burbage (new group), Mere, Tisbury, Calne, Midsommer Norton, Malmesbury (new group), Lavingtons, Devizes, Warminster, rural district west of Salisbury (Tisbury, Teffont, Berwick St James, Broad Chalke), Paulton, Pewsey, Westbury, Lyneham, Tidworth + (fire co-responder locations): Cricklade, Ramsbury, Bradford-on-Avon, Mere, Tisbury, Malmesbury, Royal Wootton Bassett.

A Community First Responder (CFR) scheme is made up of a group of trained volunteers who within the community in which they live or work attend emergency calls on behalf of South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust to provide patient care, including basic life support, until the arrival of an emergency ambulance.Applicants will have a good all round education; a full driving license held for at least one year, with no more than 6 current penalty points and have access to a vehicle with current tax, MOT and insurance for your use.

Main duties of the job

As a volunteer and a member of a Community First Responder Scheme you would provide this community based service willingly and without pay. This role is highly rewarding and offers opportunities to meet new people and learn valuable lifesaving skills through the training provided by South Western Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust.

It is vital you include what would make you a exceptional Community First Responder and how you meet the person specification for the role. Please be aware, if there is not currently a Community First Responder scheme running within a 3 mile radius of your home postcode you may not be short listed. Should you wish to respond from your work place as well as or instead of your home address, please detail this in the additional information section.

When applying for this position, please be aware that you must be able to attend the following interview dates and all of the training course.

Interviews are scheduled to be held during the week commencing Monday 28 July 2025.

The training course location Methuen Park.

Saturday 4th October 2025

Sunday 5th October 2025

Saturday 11th October 2025

Sunday 12th October 2025

Saturday 25th October 2025

Sunday 26th October 2025

If you are unable to make all of the training days please do not apply for this intake. The next planned is provisionally planned for early in 2025, please get in touch by if you would like to register your interest for a later course.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

Following shortlisting, applicants will be invited to attend a formal interview whereby they will be expected to have some knowledge of the role and South Western Ambulance NHS Foundation Trust. Candidates will be required to attain the Level 3 Award for First Responders on Scene during training in order to complete the recruitment process.

For further information about this role please see attached the job description and person specification attached.

Please do however re register your interest to be notified of future recruitment campaigns: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=1Jr8HAsL0ECdxOdKjT0WUjryOBEWEoFGoolRy68IBA1UNU5ZRU9YUDBDUEFWQkdaRkhNUUtDQkg2UCQlQCN0PWcu&route=shorturl

To make your application stand out it is vital you include what would make you a exceptional Community First Responder and how you meet the person specification for the role.

Please be aware, if there is not currently a Community First Responder scheme running within a close proximity to home postcode you may not be short listed.

More information including a video is available on our website: https://www.swast.nhs.uk/volunteer-recruitment