Your Community First Responders
Several new CFRs will be joining us in the coming months.
Hannah Crush
Team Leader & CFR
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"I've been a CFR since 2016 and currently the team leader for the group. I enjoy being part of a fantastic group of responders helping their comunity in their time of need. When not volunteering I work full time for South East Coast Ambulance service looking after complex care planning for sick and vulnerable patients in the community"
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Jackie
Community First Responder
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"I have lived in Heathfield for two and half years, moving in the middle of COVID. I have spent the majority of my NHS career as a Midwife at Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust and now work as a Nurse at the Cottage Hospice in Five Ashes. I am really excited to have been offered this opportunity to train with SECAmb and become part of the team serving the local community."
David de Boer
Community First Responder
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"I started volunteering as a vaccination carer for St. John Ambulance and as an NHS Responder during the pandemic. When those roles came to an end I found out about this fantastic opportunity with the ambulance service. During "office hours" I work as a longhaul airline pilot from Gatwick and Heathrow airports"
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Andy McGarvey
Community First Responder
"I moved to Heathfield when I was 6 years old, and I have stayed here ever since. After my education at Maynards Green Primary School and Heathfield Community College I started my training as an Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) at the old Kent and Sussex Hospital in Tunbridge Wells.
The training given to me by SECAmb has enhanced the skills I had learned within the hospital setting. I feel that it is a privilege to serve my community in this way. It is rewarding to be able to help my community in their time of need."
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Charitable Trust
Dr. Tim Williams
Chairman
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Tim Williams has been chairman of the Heathfield and Waldron First Responder scheme since its inception, and he helped his fellow trustee Bobby Hamilton establish it as a charity. Tim is a retired general surgeon who worked in Tunbridge Wells at the Kent and Sussex Hospital. His pratice covered the management of many cancers, trauma, and a range of general surgical conditions.
Dr. Peter Venn
Trustee
Andy Bodkin
PAD Site Manager
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Andy has served in a number of roles within the group, including Team Leader, CFR and Trustee. Whilst now not operational, Andy continues to support the group and helps manage the Public Access Defirbrillator sites. When not supporting the group Andy is the CEO of a music company.
Bobby Hamilton
Trustee
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Bobby Hamilton is a Scottish Chartered Accountant who endeavoured to help his fellow trustee Tim Williams to establish Heathfield and Waldron First Responders as a charity.