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St John Ambulance

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Business / Provider Type
Community Health Service, Support
Services Offered
Community Care
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St John Ambulance Victoria is a charity in the Australian community working for the Service of Humanity. We exist to help those who are in sickness, distress, suffering or danger.
A trusted and reassuring presence in the Victorian community for more than 138 years, St John Ambulance Victoria is a work of the Order of St John in Australia. We look to the future as a vibrant and strong organisation which exists to help those in our community who are in sickness, distress, suffering or danger.

Our desire is to serve the community further, deliver the best care possible and be a place where people are inspired to volunteer and work. We support our charitable work through a strong and diversified commercial operation, operating as a certified Social Enterprise.
Why us
HOW ST JOHN CONTRIBUTES TO RESILIENT COMMUNITIES
All our earnings from our paid programs – including First Aid training and the presence of our ‘vollies in green’ at public events – goes towards life-saving community programs.

Our activities and programs build resilience in and give confidence to the communities which we serve.

These programs include:

Running free First Aid training for school children
An award-winning game for children to learn first aid - First Aid Action Hero
Providing event health services volunteers and equipment at community events
Free basic CPR training through CPR Lab
Community transport for the vulnerable

MAXIMISE OUR COMMUNITY HEALTH CONTRIBUTION:
33% of the Victorian population engaged in First Aid knowledge building annually
50% of sudden cardiac arrests receive defibrillation
90% of sudden cardiac arrests receive CPR
Two new community programs
Significantly grow our Community Transport Service

DIVERSIFY OUR COMMERCIAL ACTIVITIES:
Create a Centre of Excellence in Healthcare and Industrial Compliance Training
Increase Fundraising’s contribution
Launch an agency for aged care and inhome care workers
Provide corporate health and wellbeing services

DELIVER PERSON-CENTRED CARE:
Develop and maintain a clinical governance framework
Deliver effective measures to report and improve the patient experience
Support research in First Aid and healthcare
Innovate First Aid training to improve bystander preparedness

INSPIRE OUR PEOPLE:
Expand our Employee Value Proposition
A great place to volunteer
Child Wise Certification
Provide a Safe Place for our people
Business Address
601 Blackburn Rd, Notting Hill VIC 3168,
Notting Hill VIC 3168, Australia
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