Heart 2 Heart Walk Podcast

Toby Rowallan - Emergency Medical Dispatcher for 27 years with Ambulance Tasmania. 
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In this episode, Matt talks to Toby Rowallan, a 27 year veteran Emergency Medical Dispatcher with Ambulance Tasmania.  Toby's career commenced officially accepting his position just a day after the Port Arthur massacre in 1996 which set the tone throughout his time in being aware of the job demands and focus on welfare of staff around him.

Toby and Matt talk about the stresses of emergency services life, and we get to take a deep dive into the roles within an emergency medical dispatch centre along with the unique demands of those roles within.  The discussion goes well beyond into options of better managing emergency services workers in the work that they do, shift lengths, resources and work/life balance measures to avoid unnecessary harm being done to our amazing people in these roles.

Toby was also on shift the day of one of the most tragic events in recent times in Tasmania, the 2021 Hillcrest Primary School accident where 6 children were killed, and just how that was handled on the day from within the control room.  A truely amazing story.

You can get in touch with Toby here:

FB : https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089798502024

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toby-rowallan-7b890a6b/

Instagram: @ishralar2017

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What is Heart 2 Heart Walk Podcast?

Podcast of the Heart 2 Heart Walk. A long distance walk to raise awareness around First Responder Mental Health and Wellbeing including Suicide, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and Premature Mortality. The Heart 2 Heart Walk will take place from the 1 July 2023 from the geographic centre of Australia to the Nation's Capital, taking 3 months and over 2500km. The Podcast will cover everything from amazing stories of Police and Emergency Services workers right through to academic researchers looking at the issues related to mental health of Australia's First Responders.
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