Matthew Ashbridge

Experience

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  Royal Navy

  Mar 2009 - Mar 2012

  Diving School Directing Staff

  Provided course support to a team of five instructors teaching students how to professionally dive on air and gas mixes whilst conducting mine clearance operations. Key Achievements • Provided direction on teaching theoretical lessons on diving on a gas and air blend.• Provided course support to students physical fitness in and out of water assessments. • In water diving assessor, assessing students on practical implication of their lessons.

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  Royal Navy

  Jun 2012 - Jul 2022

  Member of the health and safety team identifying and managing risk for diving and explosives ordnance teams to ensure that the correct safety procedures were followed.Key Achievements • Member of the clearance diving element providing support and logistics coordination for surface ships through maintaining life support diving equipment and supplies. • Working with the senior command to ensure that diving equipment was prioritised for and loaded onto ships that were scheduled for deployment worldwide. • Member of the explosives ordnance devices (EOD) and improvised explosive device disposal licensing team, providing safety experience and instruction during examinations.• Remote controlled vehicle training and assessment license holder, able to assess remote vehicle operators to remotely dispose of explosive devices. Show less Operation Rescript, working alongside the South Central Ambulance as a volunteer responding to 999 emergency incidents during the Covid 19 crisis.Key Tasks• Working jointly with the NHS teams to provide emergency care to critically ill patients.• Clinically upskilled by the NHS in theoretical and practical knowledge and experience in the classroom and out with frontline ambulance services.• 4* Commendation for efforts delivered to the NHS providing support to front line services during COVID-19. Show less Training and mentoring on EOD training packages and working on operations with Royal Marines Commando Units and Royal Navy Logistics to support in the clearance of ordnance. Key Achievements • Providing training and mentoring during EOD training packages by ensuring they had demo devices to work on, and creating training scenarios for land and maritime sectors.• Worked on operations with 3 Commando Brigade and their specialist beach reconnaissance teams to clear ordnance for the arrival of land based troops by boat.• Saved the Navy £235k by moving the unit from civilian vehicles to military vehicles. Show less

  • Health And Safety Manager

    Oct 2019 - Jul 2022

  • Emergency Care Assistant

    Mar 2020 - Apr 2022

  • Explosive Ordnance Custodian and Manager

    Jul 2016 - Sept 2019

  • Improvised Explosive Device Instructor

    Feb 2014 - Jun 2016

  • Diving Supervisor

    Jun 2012 - Feb 2014
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  AEC Protection / Security Nation

  Feb 2020 - Jul 2022

  Security Operator

  Security management at pubs, nightclubs, sporting events, hospitals and stadium events.Key Tasks• Team leader, managing 10 operators at large scale sporting stadia for high profile events.• Response team leader, managing ** operators to respond to incidents.• Providing first line response to a medical emergencies. • Liaison with the emergency services where necessary.

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  Opsec-protection ltd

  Jul 2022 - Apr 2023

  Consultant/ Trainer
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  Kitchen Civils Ltd

  Apr 2023 - Jul 2024

  • Health and saftey officer

    Apr 2023 - Jul 2024

  • Health and saftey officer

    Apr 2023 - Apr 2023
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  Hunter Safety Group

  Jul 2024 - now

  Operations Manager