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Hi everyone,

I’m hoping some of you kind folk would be nice enough to clear a few things up for me.

I’m a newly qualified paramedic in the UK and my partner and I are hoping to move down to your beautiful lands in the near future. She is a nurse with about 6 years experience, and as I say, I’m fresh out of uni but have had 3 years of placements with an ambulance trust.

I understand that we both will have to register with Ahpra to seek employment. I don’t think she’ll have any real issues but I’m just wondering if I will. I’d just like to ask what the job market is like for newly qualified paramedics / paramedics in general. Where more opportunities might be and if you think I’d have any luck coming over from the UK?

We’ve have a couple of aussies in our services and from what I could gather from chatting it’s hard for your NQPs to get jobs over there because you don’t really have ambulance placements like we do (please correct me if I’m wrong). So they come to the UK or other places to get some experience before heading back. This has me wondering if my 3 years of placements will be enough to bag myself a job over there.

Alternatively, I’d be very happy taking other roles like EMA, EMT, Patient Transport and HCA. Are there many opportunities in these roles and would I be suitable for them?

I’ve reached out to everyone I can think of in terms of ambulance services and governing bodies, and they’ve been very helpful in pointing me towards Ahpra and getting registered. But my questions and concerns really lie in the number of actual opportunities available. So I thought I’d ask the people with boots on the ground.

Give it to me straight. What are my chances looking like and any recommendations on what to do and where to go (Please keep in mind I scream at spiders bigger than a £1 coin and would rather set myself on fire than come within eye sight of a huntsman).

Love you all and thanks for any help.

Hi everyone, just looking to have a few questions answered by people with some experience.

I’ve just completed a paramedic science degree in the UK and the job opportunities are almost non-existent. So I’ve been considering alternative careers and joining the RAF. However, I have some concerns and just want some guidance and advice, so any help would be appreciated.

1. Would the Medical Support Officer role be the most appropriate for a newly qualified paramedic? I’m 30 years old with no previous experience in the armed forces. I will be a registered paramedic, am I going to be starting from the beginning again?

2. The minimum time served in this role is 12 years. Seems like a big commitment, why 12 years?

3. Realistically, how often am I going to be away from home. I live with my partner and I just assume I’ll have to abandon home for a while to start with and a good few months a year. Do you have a choice in where you’re based or just told when and where you eat, sleep and cry?

4. What is the job like? Is it enjoyable or just eating shit from superiors.

5. How easy it the process or signing up? I’m not an idiot but the mock aptitude test they have online shook me a little.

I’m aware I’m on the older side and not a young 18 year old they can shape as easily. Is that a disadvantage or does like experience help?
Is it a good career with opportunities to grow and develop?

Thanks in advance.