Edward Pearson
Edward joined the Ambulance Service in 1999 and worked his way through the junior ranks to become a Paramedic Team Leader looking after a team of sixteen frontline ambulance staff. In 2010 he was part of the launch of the new Hazardous Area Response Team, the National Health Service national pre-hospital response to terrorist incidents.
His day-job is leading, managing and commanding the duty team responding to terrorist threats, firearms incidents, swift-water and flood rescue, rescues from height and confined space working, alongside the Police, Fire and Rescue Services, Coastguard, RNLI and counter-terrorist units. A relatively new national resource which is constantly evolving and developing, the unit has been deployed to flooding in the Somerset levels, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and spent a month working in Salisbury after the nerve-agent attack there.
Remaining a registered Paramedic, Edward considers himself to be in the privileged position where he can choose to work on a normal frontline ambulance as and when he chooses and still thoroughly enjoys the satisfaction and privilege of helping people at the worst times of their life, sharing the joy of child-birth, the despair at the end of life and every imaginable scenario in between.
Edward was pleased to contribute to Square Pegs book and shares his insights on lessons from emergency medicine with public service leaders and practitioners.
Edward’s passion is motorcycles. He has worked as medical cover for the British Motor Cycle Racing Club, rides his own Triumph almost daily and is currently building a ‘long-term’ project bike in his spare time. It may never be finished...
Edward joined the Ambulance Service in 1999 and worked his way through the junior ranks to become a Paramedic Team Leader looking after a team of sixteen frontline ambulance staff. In 2010 he was part of the launch of the new Hazardous Area Response Team, the National Health Service national pre-hospital response to terrorist incidents.
His day-job is leading, managing and commanding the duty team responding to terrorist threats, firearms incidents, swift-water and flood rescue, rescues from height and confined space working, alongside the Police, Fire and Rescue Services, Coastguard, RNLI and counter-terrorist units. A relatively new national resource which is constantly evolving and developing, the unit has been deployed to flooding in the Somerset levels, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and spent a month working in Salisbury after the nerve-agent attack there.
Remaining a registered Paramedic, Edward considers himself to be in the privileged position where he can choose to work on a normal frontline ambulance as and when he chooses and still thoroughly enjoys the satisfaction and privilege of helping people at the worst times of their life, sharing the joy of child-birth, the despair at the end of life and every imaginable scenario in between.
Edward was pleased to contribute to Square Pegs book and shares his insights on lessons from emergency medicine with public service leaders and practitioners.
Edward’s passion is motorcycles. He has worked as medical cover for the British Motor Cycle Racing Club, rides his own Triumph almost daily and is currently building a ‘long-term’ project bike in his spare time. It may never be finished...
Edward joined the Ambulance Service in 1999 and worked his way through the junior ranks to become a Paramedic Team Leader looking after a team of sixteen frontline ambulance staff. In 2010 he was part of the launch of the new Hazardous Area Response Team, the National Health Service national pre-hospital response to terrorist incidents.
His day-job is leading, managing and commanding the duty team responding to terrorist threats, firearms incidents, swift-water and flood rescue, rescues from height and confined space working, alongside the Police, Fire and Rescue Services, Coastguard, RNLI and counter-terrorist units. A relatively new national resource which is constantly evolving and developing, the unit has been deployed to flooding in the Somerset levels, the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, and spent a month working in Salisbury after the nerve-agent attack there.
Remaining a registered Paramedic, Edward considers himself to be in the privileged position where he can choose to work on a normal frontline ambulance as and when he chooses and still thoroughly enjoys the satisfaction and privilege of helping people at the worst times of their life, sharing the joy of child-birth, the despair at the end of life and every imaginable scenario in between.
Edward was pleased to contribute to Square Pegs book and shares his insights on lessons from emergency medicine with public service leaders and practitioners.
Edward’s passion is motorcycles. He has worked as medical cover for the British Motor Cycle Racing Club, rides his own Triumph almost daily and is currently building a ‘long-term’ project bike in his spare time. It may never be finished...