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Morimoto’s journey with St John WA (SJWA) began by accident. Originally from Japan, with English as his second language, and aged 24 at the time, he mistakenly thought the voluntary Event Health Services (EHS) role he applied for was a hospital-based customer service role. Seven years later, Keita’s fortuitous application changed the course of his…

Geordie Torrese is a site medic at D&C Built, currently providing medical care to the construction workers on an ongoing 52-storey construction site at Elizabeth Quay. Geordie started with St John WA as a volunteer four years ago, then eventually transitioned to an event medic and is now with Industry Medical Services. “I became a…

Albemarle has funded almost $50,000 in state-of-the-art training equipment for St John WA’s Australind Sub Centre through St John Giving. Two new resuscitation training manikins, known as ‘Anne dolls’, specially fitted with advanced features such as airway devices and intravenous (IV) cannulas, will be used to train regional St John WA paramedics and volunteers in…

Ambulance Paramedic Brian McLuckie ASM has experienced the transformation of pre-hospital care over 40 years serving the Western Australian community with St John WA on the emergency ambulance front line. In marking his fourth decade, colleagues and friends paid tribute to Brian saying he had built a reputation not only as an exceptional clinician passionate…

Tomorrow is International Paramedics Day (IPD). IPD was launched on 8 July 2022  to honour Dominique-Jean Larrey, the man often referred to as the ‘father of modern-day ambulance services’. It’s a day to recognise the valuable contributions paramedics make to society, and to educate the public on the wide variety of roles they undertake to…

Nine St John WA Paramedics have shared their experience on the organisation’s social media channels to demonstrate the diverse career options available to mark the second ever International Paramedics Day. The cross-section of the St John WA team work in clinical support, the STORC midwifery program, on road in emergency ambulance crews and supporting regional Triple…

St John WA is delivering additional specialist training to paramedicine students at Edith Cowan University to enable students to deploy with emergency ambulance services in the event of a disaster. The new surge workforce program provides Western Australia’s emergency ambulance service with a reserve team which can deploy as volunteers to support the response to…

A young Perth girl who used her newly acquired first aid skills to save her big sister’s life has been hailed a hero. Eight-year-old Tia Cummins was taught life-saving skills through St John WA’s First Aid Focus program, which ran classes at her Swan View school last month. Within hours of completing the course, Tia’s…

Volunteer Experience Business Partners Allison Rayner and Elza Wallis are preparing to launch a new Volunteer Advocacy Team in August, which will provide St John WA volunteers with a clear pathway to be represented and input into the future of the organisation. The Team will have representation from all the volunteer streams within St John…