In any given year one in four people will experience a mental health problem. But research has revealed that the estimated quarter of a million emergency staff and volunteers are at an even greater risk of developing mental health problems because of the nature of your roles.
“You go to nasty jobs and you try to leave it behind. But you’ve got your own stresses on top of that…it makes the job extremely hard, and sometimes too hard to do.”
For search & rescue volunteers especially, balancing volunteering commitments with work and personal life can have an impact on your mental health. Whilst many in search & rescue report great support from their teams, volunteers may also experience a gap in support for mental health problems if their issues do not relate to, or they do not have support within paid employment.
As part of World Mental Health Day, the national mental health charity Mind have launched their Blueprint Pack. This is a free step-by-step guide for 999 services on delivering mental health activity for staff and volunteers that will last well into the future. All the key documents are available in the documents section of sharepoint.
The Team is working with Cleveland Police as part of an initiative to involve all local emergency services, professional and voluntary. We will be running a session at the next Team forum to start working towards signing the Blue Light Time to Change Pledge, a public statement showing what we will do as a team to protect the mental wellbeing of team members.
Any team member can get involved with this by becoming a Blue Light Champion. These are normal service members from across the emergency services who sign up to champion mental health as part of their work. Full training is available!
To find out more about the Cleveland Mountain Recsue Blue Light Programme and get registered as a Blue Light Champion please click here.
Either visit the Mind Blue Light website or speak to the current team mental health lead, Mike Lincoln.
Applications can be made to join the team in a support role (Operational Support) or as a hill going (Search and Rescue) member.
Applications for either role can be made at any time. Intakes for Operational Support members occur at various times of the year. There is one annual intake for Search and Rescue normally each September.
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CALL-OUT 47/2024
TUESDAY 29TH OCTOBER 2024 (1511 HOURS)
We were requested by the North East Ambulance Service NHS Foundation Trust to go to the aid of an injured horse rider, following a fall on farmland between Guisborough and Skelton. One of our Team Doctors headed directly there whilst other members using two Land Rovers joined him upon their arrival.
After the casualty had been stabilised and given pain relief, she was ‘packaged’ within a vacuum mattress on a rescue stretcher, which was then secured inside one of the Land Rovers. After she had been driven to a farmyard, she was handed over into the care of the ambulance crew. We wish her all the best for a swift recovery.
Many thanks to people at the farm for helping to transport some of our personnel.
Seventeen Cleveland MRT members were involved for just under 2-hours before they were able to leave the farm and head home or to our Base.
Well done to all involved, Hope the Lady makes a speedy recovery.
Well done to all the team👏👏
Amazing as always.. thank you for all you do xxx
Well done
Always there when called upon!
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