The Community Volunteer

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  • Busy, busy, busy…

    Busy, busy, busy…

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    So it appears I stopped writing after I qualified as a CFR with SCAS and for that I am sorry. It has been a busy few months of a few buddy shifts and going it alone. But first, and update on HART. I continue to be a volunteer driver for them, but at this time…

  • I qualified

    I qualified

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    So over the lat few weeks my training started, and I have spent nearly every waking, and many sleeping, moments thinking about what I have learnt, processing the chain of survival etc. It all culminated in a day of assessments, detailed below, all of which had to be passed to be able to get issued…

  • The bat man

    The bat man

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    So a new species for me today. I have never been asked to pick up a bat until today where there was the need for a bat to be picked up from a vet’s in winchester. Again Winchester is some what outside of my normal “patch” but having a specific love of bats and their…

  • Induction

    Induction

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    So last week I officially started my training for the Community First Responder which started as my thinking it was 18.00-20.00 as per the previous evening session. Only to realise very quickly it was 18.00-22.00 with no dinner consumed. The session its self consisted of 4 main elements All were delivered as well as can…

  • Barn owl Pt. II

    Barn owl Pt. II

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    It is very rare that I have been asked to release an animal for HART however I was lucky enough to be asked to release the barn owl we pickup up last week which has done an amazing job at recovering. As ever thanks must go to the true heros that are the team at…

  • Vaccine review

    Vaccine review

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    The next part of the application, now that I have passed the recruitment assessment was a vaccine review with SCAS health partner. This was really simple, albeit slightly inconvenient in regard to having to fit it around work and it being a good hours drive (with traffic) from where I normally work etc. In short,…

  • Barn owl

    Barn owl

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    Today we got a message to go slightly out of the area I would normal go out for, but it was for a known species. A barn owl. A species I have never picked up for HART and frankly, who doesn’t love a bird of prey?! So of my wife and I went to collect…

  • The assessment

    The assessment

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    So on Thursday I had the final assessment piece to finally become a CFR for SCAS. I wrote about my apprehension around having to learn different things to that which I had been taught before, or having some learning material that was slightly less than I would choose. As it turns out, it was not…

  • The assessment evening

    The assessment evening

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    The next step on my Community First Responder (CFR) journey is to go along to a SCAS (South Central Ambulance Service) assessment evening, where they will finalise a few of the checks required for this role. Most of these are administrative checks that I have no fear or thought I will fail, such as The…

  • Hedgehog rescue

    Hedgehog rescue

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    I got a message today to pick up a very small hedgehog from a local vets here in Basingstoke. When picking up from a veterinary surgery the amount of information given about the animal is always lacking unfortunately. All I can tell you about this wee fella was that they had accommodated it over night,…