Meet The Team

Karen Winter
Director/Instructor/State Registered Paramedic
Karen is Director of First Aid Plus Ltd, which is approved by the HSE. Karen has worked for the East of England Ambulance & Paramedic Service since 1990. She has also worked as a Paramedic in the film industry working on movies such as James Bond, & Harry Potter. Karen has worked & lived in Australia & spent some time working for the United Nations in Hong Kong. Karen is renowned for her fun courses & hand on teaching methods & is able to share her real life experiences.

  Phil Smith
  SR Paramedic / FAAW Instructor

  Phil having previously worked for St   

  Johns Ambulance, joined the East of   

  England Ambulance Service in 1998.  He

  is now a State Registered Paramedic.  He

  is part of the training team for instructing Community Responders & is a popular instructor of ours, bringing his personal paramedic stories as well as adding fun to his professional

style of training.

  Ruth Richards
   FAAW Instructor
  Ruth has been a First Aid Instructor

  since 2000; she worked for both Emirates

  Airline & Silver Jet Airline as a training

  specialist in Aviation Medicine and first aid, teaching cabin crew the life saving skills needed in order to deal with medical emergencies at 30,000 feet!  Ruth is also a qualified Physiotherapist and now specialises in teaching Pilates to rehabilitate her clients.

  Mei Wise
   Finance  & Office Manager
  Mei has been with First Aid Plus

  from the very beginning. She has   

  extensive HR and recruitment 

  experience, having worked in the city for many years. Mei has been an important part of developing the company & has built a professional & approachable relationship with our clients, instructors & candidates.

  David Mortimer
  Ex Military Instructor /Team Medic/  

  Close Protection Team Leader for HM

  forces (Army)/Royal Military Police

  David has served operations in Baghdad,

  Kuwait, Sierra Leone etc. He has  

  experienced High-Risk Operational appointments world-wide & has provided Close Protection to British Ambassadors & the British Royal Family etc. David's teaching reputation is such that our clients ask for him personally having experienced his training!

 

Jenny Tyler
Ambulance Technician/ FAAW Instructor
Jenny has worked in Emergency Care for six years. She has recently begun instructing courses for First Aid plus and is very enthusiastic about transferring her clinical skills and knowledge to others. Her laid back, informative and humorous approach to both teaching and First Aid is popular and reassuring. Jenny has a long history of working in community care and is well aware of the challenges and continuing changing ways of this area of care. She is able to relate all of her sessions to real life situations through either her Emergency or Community care work. A Mum of 3, she also has a good understanding and knowledge of children's care, illness and common accidents.

Paul Schofield
London Ambulance Paramedic/Firefighter

Paul is a State Registered Paramedic based at Heathrow & seconded to the Hillingdon Rapid Response Car. He is CBRN trained & is a training supervisor  & trained in Vulnerable Adult & Child Protection!  Paul is also involved in the Junior Citizen Project teaching children about Health & Safety, this is an Inter Agency Project with Police, Fire Brigade & Schools.