East Of England Ambulance Service

Government, Community & Emergency Services

The East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust (EEAST) provides 24 hour, 365 days a year accident and emergency services to those in need of emergency medical treatment and transport in – Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire.

We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for patients needing non-emergency transport to and from hospital, treatment centres and other similar facilities and who can’t travel unaided because of their medical condition or frailty.

Within the east of England, we deliver the patient transport services in Cambridgeshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, north, south and west Essex.

There’s more to us than just emergency response though. We also provide non-emergency patient transport services for patients travelling to and from hospital, treatment centres and other similar facilities who can’t travel unaided because of a medical condition or frailty.

Our frontline effort is supported by a huge team of support staff, specialising in everything from HR, finance and communications, to engineering, I.T and informatics. With an organisation of this size, and under constant scrutiny, it is vital that our people are experts in their field. It is the reason we invest so much in our training and education programme; we want our staff to develop and as an employer, we need to provide the tools for them to do that.

 

Join Our Team

There are so many opportunities to join EEAST as either an employee or as volunteer, we really do offer something for everyone.

Every role is important, as everyone plays a part in meeting our vision – to provide an innovative, response, excellent service which is always community focused and patient driven.

There are a range of different career paths you could experience within EEAST. Every role is important, and everyone plays a part in helping us achieve our vision – outstanding care, exception people, every hour of every day.

Ready to join the team? View our vacancies page to see what opportunities are available now.

Find out where your #CareerForLife with EEAST could start today!

There are a range of different career paths you could experience within EEAST. Every role is important, and everyone plays a part in helping us achieve our vision – outstanding care, exception people, every hour of every day.

Whether it is in frontline, within our emergency operations centres (EOCs), our patient transport service (PTS), support services or administrative services – there is a career for life for you at EEAST.

East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust

The area is made up of around 6.3 million people

  • 7,500 square miles
  • Six Integrated Care Systems (ICS)
  • 17 acute trusts

In 2022/23 the Trust:

  • Received 1,397,119 emergency 999 calls
  • Around 10% of callers were helped through our Clinical Assessment Service
  • Made more than 500,000 non-emergency patient transport service journeys
  • Took more than 850,000 calls in our commercial contact centre (CallEEAST)

Our resources and teams include:

  • More than 5,000 staff and more than 1,200 volunteers
  • Three emergency operations (EOCs) located in Bedford, Chelmsford and Norwich
  • 485 frontline ambulances
  • 72 rapid response vehicles
  • 178 non-emergency ambulances (Patient Transport Service (PTS) and Health Care Referral Team (HCRT) vehicles)
  • 53 hazardous area response team (HART)/major incident/resilience vehicles
  • 134 sites
  • Our planned income for 2022/23 is £3.9 million

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Day in the life: newly qualified paramedic - #CareerForLife

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Day in the life: specialist paramedic - #CareerForLife
Q&A with an emergency call handler
Q&A with a pre-hospital nurse practitioner - #CareerForLife
A day in the life of an emergency dispatcher | #ControlRoomWeek
Q&A with a call handler team leader

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