Job Description

Why work for Great Western Air Ambulance Charity?

When you work for us, you feel part of something special. By the time you come into work in the morning, our crew may well have saved the life of someone you know, someone living in your local community.



From fundraisers to highly skilled paramedics and senior consultants, we are a team, working to save lives that would otherwise be lost. The job can be high pressure, but it is deeply satisfying, and every member of the team is committed to this service, and to saving as many lives as we can.



We pride ourselves on being an excellent employer. We are small enough to feel like a family, but large enough to have a professional set-up. Together we raise over 4m a year to keep our service running.



We are keen to represent the diversity of the people we serve, and welcome applications from communities who may be under-represented in our workforce or the type of roles we are recruiting for. If you would like to see any of our HR-related policies, please email jobs@gwaac.com outlining what policies you would like to be sent and asking us any questions you might have about whether GWAAC is the right employer for you. We're not perfect but we always aim to be better, so please let us have any feedback at all about your experience of us, so we can reflect, learn and improve.



Although we think the biggest perk to working with us is knowing you are helping to save lives, here are some other benefits for our employees:

Trustee

Voluntary role

At Great Western Air Ambulance Charity we are looking for a new Trustee or three to join our volunteer Board of Trustees.



We're looking for someone who shares our Values and is committed to our cause, but we're also looking for people who have expertise in one or more of the following areas:

HR including equality, diversity and inclusion Planning, construction, health and safety and facilities management Fundraising Helicopter aviation Health policy and systems

Read more about this vacancy

Whilst many of the issues that face the charity are common to many organisations, such as balancing income and expenditure and dealing with people, the specialist nature of what our operational team do, the breadth of our fundraising activity and the constant evolution of the charity means there is always something fresh and interesting going on. So, being a Trustee of GWAAC is incredibly interesting and rewarding.


However, our Board is focused on governance - whilst Trustees are ultimately responsible for the charity they do not run the organisation, as this is done by a professional management team.


To find out more, please review our Trustee information pack, and get in touch if you have any questions.

If you are interested in the role of Trustee, then please review the application pack and consider applying. If you have questions or would appreciate a discussion first, please email jobs@gwaac.com with some brief details about yourself, and our Chief Executive, Anna Perry, will get in touch.


To apply, we require a CV along with a covering letter, combined no more than eight sides of A4. These should be returned to jobs@gwaac.com by 09:00 on Monday 6 October.



Recruitment Pack