BUSINESS REPORT
A leap of faith
Making the jump from stable employment to business start up is a difficult task in any economy but especially pre-Brexit 2019. But that is what Jonathan Croxon the managing director of T9 Ambulance Service Limited has just done.
For just over two years I had been working for an independent ambulance company in London, commuting down from Raunds to north London six days a week. I worked on specialist intensive care and private client work across the UK.
The company entered into financial difficulty and started to lose work. I saw the writing on the wall and left to join the prison service, however during my first week I received a phone call from the director of my previous company and she offered me matching salary and a team leader position after she had secured a new contract for a private hospital group.
I had a lot of soul searching and spoke to family and friends and some of my mentors and I made the decision to leave HMP and go back to the private sector.
However sadly within a week of me going back it was clear that the contract wasn’t secure and in effect I’d left a secure job with excellent career prospects for a job with longer hours and similar risks for a £2.50 pay rise.
The business continued to suffer and lose work and so I decided to go back to working the events sector. I purchased my first response car and started working for several
medical companies and grew a solid reputation as a reliable sub-contractor.
Three months down the line we have turned over just shy of £30,000 and become a fully fledged business, regularly employing four staff or more on weekends up and down the UK with first aid training contracts and events companies. We are now looking towards the 2020 events season and registering with the care quality commission (CQC).
We are looking to build a professional, specialist and cost effective service that puts patients first and are actively recruiting quality staff to join us.
16 inbusiness DECEMBER 2019/JANUARY 2020
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