CareFlight

Consumer Representative – CareFlight    Make a real impact in aeromedical care  📍 Location: Northern Territory or NSW (in person or via Microsoft Teams)  ⏳ Commitment: 10–12 clinical meetings per year (1–3 hours each)  💰 Compensation: Provided  📅 Applications Close: COB Friday 11th April 2025    About the Role  We are seeking a Consumer Representative to provide a consumer perspective and advocate for the needs of those who use our services. In this role, you will contribute to decision-making, policy development, and service improvement, ensuring CareFlight continues to meet the highest standards of safety and quality in aeromedical care.    Key Responsibilities  - Participate in CareFlight’s Clinical Executive Committee and other clinical committees as required.  - Provide valuable insights based on lived experiences as a past patient or consumer.  - Collaborate with healthcare professionals to enhance patient-centred care.  Identify opportunities for improvement and contribute to service design.  - Advocate for and support the needs of remote communities, ensuring their perspectives are considered in service delivery and improvement.    Who We’re Looking For  You don’t need to be an expert in aeromedical services—we are looking for someone who is:  ✅ Comfortable sharing their experiences to improve healthcare services.  ✅ Passionate about patient advocacy and consumer representation.  ✅ Able to contribute meaningfully to discussions and decision-making.    What We Offer  - Compensation for your time and contributions.  - Orientation and support to help you succeed in your role.  - A meaningful opportunity to improve aeromedical care, especially for remote communities.    How to Apply  - If you are interested in joining us as a Consumer Representative, please submit a brief expression of interest outlining:  - Why you’re interested in this role.  - Your interaction with CareFlight (e.g., past patient, non-CareFlight clinician, community representative).     For any questions or to submit your application, please contact Ken McNoe at kenmcnoe@careflight.org    CareFlight – Saving Lives. Speeding Recovery. Serving the Community. 

Our Nutrien Ag Solutions #EmergencyTraumaTraining, powered by CareFlight is well underway for 2025!    The team has already visited locations all over Australia including Corowa, Young, Gunnedah and Nygan, equipping attendees with vital skills taken from real-life situations – so they are empowered to act quickly if an accident happens.    The courses, which are taught by clinical professionals, build knowledge, skills and confidence that improve long-term patient outcomes and build resilience in agricultural communities.    Every minute counts at a traumatic incident, especially if medical services are hundreds of kilometres away, which is why this program is so vital to helping deliver life-saving assistance in agricultural settings.   Pictured are attendees at the recent Kaniva ETT learning how to respond to a motor vehicle accident using the CareFlight CrashSim.

CareFlight is once again hosting its Pre-Hospital Trauma courses for doctors, nurses, paramedics and medics who want to develop or enhance their skills in pre-hospital medicine. Involving several high fidelity and immersive scenarios, taught by a senior and experienced multi-disciplinary faculty, participants cover the technical skills, knowledge and critical decision-making skills required to perform effectively as a clinician in the pre-hospital environment. We have two upcoming courses taking place on: - April 9 – 11, 2025 - October 22 - 24, 2025 Further information on the Pre-Hospital Trauma courses as well as other education and training offered by CareFlight can be found by visiting: https://lnkd.in/gPBY5VS7

CareFlight expands operations in Newcastle to enhance aeromedical services. Today, The Hon, Yasmin Maree Catley, MP, Minister for the Hunter joined CareFlight’s Chairman The Hon Brad Hazzard to officially announce CareFlight’s expansion in Newcastle with a permanently based turbo-prop aircraft and jet. As part of our commitment to Northern NSW/regional areas, we will be operating a permanently based jet and turbo-prop aircraft from Newcastle in collaboration with NSW Health, enhancing our capability to provide lifesaving patient transport services to and from the region.       We’re extremely excited to continue our efforts repatriating Australians who may become ill or have been injured overseas to return home to Australia for medical treatment and, to have the opportunity to deliver new jobs to the region in line with the expansion.     You can read more on how the expansion will positively impact the region by following the below link.

Meet Amy – Our Apprentice Aircraft Maintenance Engineer 🚁🔧    In celebration of National Apprenticeship Week, we're excited to introduce Amy Kevan, one of our talented apprentices. Amy's journey started in the stores department, with no prior experience in aviation. But when the opportunity for an apprenticeship came up, she was encouraged by her colleagues to take the leap—and she's been thriving ever since! In this video, Amy shares what she loves most about her role: understanding and fixing complex systems, the variety in her daily tasks, and the incredible support she receives from her team.    A big thanks to Flight Safety Australia for coming to interview Amy and capture her journey on film. At CareFlight, we’re proud to support apprentices like Amy who help us keep our life-saving aircraft in top condition. Watch her story and see how apprenticeships are shaping the future of aviation. ✈️    Thinking about a career in aviation maintenance? An apprenticeship could be your ticket to an exciting future. https://lnkd.in/gUXBwHD3 

Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter marks 1,000 missions during landing at Parliament House.   The Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter landed at Parliament House in Canberra yesterday, to celebrate an historic five-year sponsorship and funding commitment from Mounties Group.  The lifesaving commitment from profit-for-purpose organisation Mounties Group goes above and beyond the existing naming rights sponsorship of the H145 helicopter. It will support CareFlight across a variety of other operations over coming years, including the training programs delivered to emergency response volunteers in regional and rural communities with the goal of building resilience in local communities around Australia.  In an important reflection on the significance of the commitment, the event recognised the milestone of the Mounties Care CareFlight Helicopter being tasked by NSW Ambulance more than 1,000 times within the Sydney Basin area of operations since Mounties Care became naming rights partner.  We were honoured to hear the kind words from the Federal Government’s representative The Hon Emma McBride MP, and to share more about CareFlight and Mounties aligned goals to serve the Australian communities with the MPs and Senators that attended including those pictured Dr Anne Webster MP, Anne Stanley MP, The Hon Michael McCormack MP, Alison Byrnes MP, Sam Birrell MP and Dr Gordon Reid MP alongside members of the CareFlight and Mounties team.

2024 was an incredible year for CareFlight and marked our biggest 12 months on record. We’re grateful for the continued support from all of our partners, sponsors, donors and the wider community as none of our achievements would be possible without you. You help us answer the calls for help. Your support means CareFlight can give each patient the best possible chance of full recovery. The care we can provide as soon as possible, reaching Australians in urban as well as highly remote locations, helping ensure Australians get access the very best healthcare they need can make such a difference. We recognise that every time we fly to the side of a patient, you all are part of our crew too. Please share this video to anyone you know that has been a part of our journey. Thanks to all of our major sponsors and partners! Network 10, Mounties Group, Viva Energy Australia, Emma McBride, Luke Gosling OAM MP, Mark Butler, Malarndirri McCarthy, Gurmesh Singh, Jordan Lane MP, Lia Finocchiaro MLA and Steven Edgington MLA

🎉 Achieving More Together: A Year of Innovation, Impact, and Community Service 🚁 At CareFlight, collaboration is essential to ensuring we’re always ready to respond to emergencies across the Northern Territory. Each year, we conduct several multi-agency training sessions with NT Police Search and Rescue and Surf Life Saving NT. The comprehensive training sessions, build on techniques, essential for effective and safe transfer of personnel and equipment, across land and water in remote, hard-to-access areas. These joint exercises include deploying life rafts, recovering people from the water, and transferring medical teams and equipment to small vessels. Training together enhances the skills and coordination needed for real-life search and rescue missions, where swift, seamless responses can save lives. “We operate in a challenging environment, where vast distances compound the problems of people in distress,” said Grant Pitman, Senior Base Aviator at CareFlight Top End. “These exercises are part of our preparedness and enable us to maintain readiness to respond across the Top End”. In 2023/24 alone, CareFlight supported over 14 SAR missions, from assisting ill passengers aboard cruise ships to responding to boating emergencies. With ongoing collaboration and training, we remain committed to keeping our community safe. Surf Life Saving Northern Territory

Achieving More Together: A Year of Impact, Innovation, and Care In 2024, CareFlight has remained committed to the health and wellbeing of the communities we serve. We’ve delivered over 7,000kg of fresh fruit to remote communities across the Top End, helping ensure access to essential nutrients where it’s needed most. This initiative is just one part of our ongoing mission to support healthier, stronger communities. Beyond providing lifesaving medical care, we’re proud to deliver essential resources that can help improve health outcomes in these remote areas. Every day, we fly into several remote communities to treat and transport critically ill and injured patients, and we’re always looking for new ways to make a difference in the lives of those we serve. A heartfelt thank you to the Woolworths team for their invaluable support in making this possible. Woolworths Supermarkets

Did you know CareFlight provides medical escorts on scheduled commercial long-haul flights? Recently, members of the CareFlight clinical team travelled to China and Cambodia to bring patients back to Australia followed by a trip from New Zealand to Japan.   These transfers were coordinated as part of CareFlight’s Medical Escort service where highly experienced professionals accompany patients and their relatives to their home or destination hospital on scheduled commercial long-haul flights when clinically appropriate.    All CareFlight’s clinicians are Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA) registered Medical Practitioners or Nurses and all missions have clinical oversight from a CareFlight Specialist Doctor, ensuring all aspects of planning take the patient’s care needs into consideration so patients are in very safe hands. Our clinical teams are available throughout the year and this service remains available in the lead up to and over the Christmas break.   To learn more, visit https://lnkd.in/gS6a5V72. And, if you’re travelling this festive season, remember to book travel insurance – this will help ensure that you or your loved ones can make it home safe if the worst were to happen while you’re away.