LifeAid Emergency Care

27/05/2026

LifeAid is recruiting an Operations Coordinator.

This role sits at the intersection of emergency medical operations, training, deployments, logistics, workforce coordination, and the organised chaos that comes with supporting people in complex environments.

We’re looking for someone who can help build systems that are calm, practical, scalable, and human. Someone comfortable moving between spreadsheets, field realities, phone calls, deployment planning, and the thousand small details that keep operations running.

The work spans training operations, remote and industrial healthcare, emergency response support, and event medical services across a wide operational footprint. The goal is to keep oversight and systems deeply connected to the people doing the work on the ground.

If that sounds like your kind of environment, we’d love to hear from you.

Operations Coordinator supporting medical, training & remote operations across dynamic regional and deployment environments.

08/05/2026

24/04/2026

On Anzac Day, we remember not only those who served, but those who cared for the wounded in the harshest conditions imaginable.

From battlefield stretcher-bearers to the earliest aeromedical evacuations, their work changed the story of survival.
Care moved closer.
Time to treatment shortened.

That legacy lives on in every medic, every responder, every act of showing up when it matters most.

At LifeAid, we carry that forward.
Not as history. As practice.

Lest we forget.

🇦🇺 25 April

22/04/2026

Thoughts from one of the LifeAid Directors, Kirstie Close:

In the lead-up to Anzac Day, I’ve been thinking about my granddad, Bill, for a whole bunch of reasons. He was a surgeon in a military hospital in Kure, Japan during the Korean War.

Around that time, helicopters started being used to evacuate wounded soldiers more systematically. It changed everything. Patients weren’t arriving days later after long transfers. They were getting there faster. Still critically injured, but with a much better chance.

He saw that shift happening in real time (while I saw it on M*A*S*H... cue the theme song). It meant different decisions, different pressures. Care became more than just what happened in the operating theatre - there were shifts in coordination, timing, and continuity.

Strange to think of that period - chopper rescues now feel so standard, but it went through the process of change and impacting what chances of survival looked like. I think about that a lot with what we do at LifeAid Emergency Care.

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Image from the Australian War Memorial - Kure, Japan. 5 May 1952. Lieutenant General Sydney F. Rowell (left), the Chief of the General Staff (CGS), Australian Military Forces, made an inspection of the Headquarters of the British Commonwealth Forces Korea, at Kure. During his inspection of the British Commonwealth Hospital at Kure he stopped for a chat with a young Korean veteran, Private A. W. King of Wee Waa, NSW, a member of the 3rd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment (3RAR). Accompanying the CGS is Lieutenant General William Bridgeford, Commander of British Commonwealth troops in Korea.

22/04/2026

20/04/2026

Tomorrow we farewell Jordyn Williams as she heads off to start with AV 🚑

As is now firmly embedded in LifeAid tradition (and absolutely not negotiable), all departing legends must be immortalised on Dad’s office wall in the most ridiculous way possible.

So please enjoy Jordyn’s official induction into the Hall of Questionable Decisions:

🥜 “May contain traces of paramedic.”

In all seriousness, Jordyn has been an incredible part of the team — steady, capable, and always up for whatever the job (or the chaos) required. We’re really proud to see her stepping into the next chapter.

AV is lucky to have you… even if you are now, technically, part peanut butter cup.

Go well, Jordyn 💛 you’ll always be a peanut butter cup to meeeeee