Gemma Aisthorpe

Notable Experience

• Successfully lead a statewide scheduled ESCAD outage.
• Lead statewide GWN upgrades requiring BCP planning for OpCen unable to use mission critical equipment during maintenance windows.
• Lead OpCens through both scheduled and unscheduled power outages.
• Lead OpCens through disaster management (Cyclone Jan/Feb 2024).Grounded understanding of the technologies used to run mission critical operations centres.
• Undertook planning operations and mitigation for complex OpCen technology upgrades - writing, planning and implementation of IAPs and DBNs.

Notable Experience/Project Work

• Summer Seasonal Plan, 2024 QAS SMID and IMS Plan, updating of EM Unit of Policy Review Cycle.
• Proven ability in professional writing and project work.
• Essential understanding of QAS legislative requirements under the Queensland Disaster Management arrangements.
• Undertook a collaborative course with QPS Counter Terrorism Committee in counter terrorism exercise management.

Performed training to become a General Services Officer with the Australian Army. Retired before completion due to personal restraints. I completed multiple training courses, testing physical, mental and emotional endurance and grit. The experience instilled a true sense of self-motivation and determination.

Upon completion of courses, I received commendation on performance from senior staff.

Notable Experience

• Room Manager duties, leading IMS teams to provide strategic, operational and tactical management of the statewide QAS response to COVID-19.
• Provide command and control during other concurrent disaster responses.
• High level reporting and documenting.
• Delegated authority for day-to-day decision-making processes in leading QAS COVID-19 response.
• Statewide responsibility and tracking for staff welfare and oversight during pandemic disaster.
• Responsible for writing and updating pandemic and reviewing/updating statewide disaster plans.

Notable Experience

• Deliverance and implementation the South East Queensland Escalation Strategy.

• Notable Experience
• Coordination and collaboration with Regional SOSs during the implementation stages of PACH initiatives.
• Collaborated with executive leadership on initiatives to align daily objectives with QAS strategic goals.
• Facilitated effective issue resolution, resulting in improved outcomes for daily operations.
• Oversight of daily operations, implementing efficient processes such as dynamic deployment opportunities, collaboration with HHS executives, advocating for MEDAI processes and reporting to central office executives.

Notable Experience

• Metro North Mental Health Coordinator
• Scene Commander for high rise multi-casualty scenario
• Hosted QAS Roma Street Ambulance open day
• Metro North Casual Officer Regional Supervisor
• Support officer for staff required to go to court days

Notable Experience

• Scene Commander duties for various actual and mock multi-casualty scenes (Westfield, High Rise, Brisbane Airport).
• Represented QAS as a leader and supervisor for an international television series (Ambulance Australia).
• Participated in the trial PACH initiative.

Notable Experience

• Managed the CDS position when it was a one person role within Brisbane Operations Centre.
• Worked through an unscheduled ESCAD outage, providing agile thinking in the management of and leadership of EMDs in dispatching guidance.
• Development and application of deployment strategies for the whole of Brisbane region and assistance of surrounding areas.
• Experienced in ESCAD and Communication centres technologies.
• Collaborated in the LiveMum committee.

Notable Experience

• Experienced in mass casualty scenarios and assisted in the operations and management of integration of prehospital cares through the various complexities of leading stakeholder agencies
• Represented the QAS as a professional when collaborating with QFES, SES, St John, SORT, Federal Police and rural doctors during training exercises and scenarios.

Notable Experience

• Compliance with registration requirements.
• Compliance with in service mandatory training.
• Worked through disaster setting throughout multiple Brisbane Floods and Darling Downs Fires.
• Responsible for mentoring students from university, diploma and GPIP.
• Engagement in station local ambulance committees.
• Participation in community events and education sessions such as school visits, Royal Exhibition Show.

Notable Experience

• Worked in rural and remote EA station.
• Deployment to surrounding areas for coverage to special events with limited resource availably.
• Fundamental knowledge gained surrounding the complexity of indigenous health outcomes.
• Required to deliver health expertise to HHS facilities when short staffed for special procedures.