St John Ambulance WA 'Looking for Legends', 800 extra volunteers for state's reopening

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St John Ambulance WA say they will need more than 800 new volunteers as Western Australia prepares to open its borders next year.

St John Ambulance WA will launch a recruitment drive in January to try and attract 800 volunteersHead of Country Ambulance Operations Justin Fonte expects an open border will put more pressure on WA's health system

"Mental patients which need to be assessed in Perth are spending days on end… you know four, five, six days, in a hospital waiting for them to be transferred down to Perth by RFDS," he said. Mr Catania said in Carnarvon, volunteer ambulance officers were unable to attend a call-out because it had no available volunteers.

 

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Why volunteers? Employ some qualified staff.

This should really be 800 jobs.

Volunteers needed to prop up health system while premier crows about 5 billion surplus.

Have you seen the reputation this organisation has with regard to bullying and mis managing its workforce

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