Meet Your Trainers
International Paramedic College Real-world trainers with real-world experience
To help you learn, International Paramedic College has skilled paramedics, clinical and rescue staff experienced in emergency medicine and pre-hospital care. Real-world educators with “significant” clinical expertise to draw upon.
Not only do our trainers have significant clinical experience, they also can share that experience, to draw on it and shape it into a holistic educational package. Allowing students to see the big picture or the main game, not just a series of parts.
Tony Ruttley
Tony has a passion for Rugby League and sports medicine It started in Casino in 2005 as he followed his son Kurt through the juniors as a league safe volunteer. Then to senior football where Tony spent the next 10 years at the Casino RSM cougars in roles as level 1 & 2 sports trainer, committee member and vice president of the club.
Tony went on to be selected as the level 1 sports trainer for the NRRRL open women’s representative side. He continued to gain a wide experience in sports medicine, so much so that he was selected as the head sports trainer for the Laurie Daley Northern Rivers Titans, representative side.
Recently, he was selected as the trainer for the NSW U16’s Country side team and head trainer at Marist Brothers. Tony’s long service and commitment to the game has him recently managing the Laurie Daley U 18’s representative side for the Northern Rivers Titans. In 2022/23 he became a NRRRL board member.
Tony has a vast clinical experience in a tough game. He has joined us here at International Paramedic College to help pass on that knowledge and real practical experience in first aid management to the wider community and other rugby league trainers on the North Coast. Giving something back to the local community and the game he loves.
Tony is always up for a chat about rugby league. We are so proud that Tony has chosen to join us here at International Paramedic College to share his experience and specialist knowledge with us and our students. Welcome aboard Tony.
Steve Tevelein
Steve has joined International Paramedic College to deliver first aid training in the Colac, Winchelsea and Camperdown areas in Victoria. Steve comes to International Paramedic College Colac from a strong sense of community. Steve is a local in Colac with extensive experience in the State Emergency Service in Colac and surrounds. From a local businesses background Steve has demonstrated over many years of community service a strong desire to help and care for the well-being of others. He has a training style that is supportive and encouraging and brings a passion for all things first aid to the Colac community.
Steve has worked as a Trainer and Assessor for the local SES, developing and implementing specialised training that improved volunteer retention and developed nurtured and shared his skills and knowledge effectively to help the local community. Steve started out in local business but like many of us as we wind our way through life, we hear other callings and the drive to take on new challenges and new dreams is not just put to one side but becomes part of the richly rewarding lived experience going forward. As Steve says "It's easy for us to wind out the clock doing what you have always known, but the challenge is always to step out of what we know and develop and follow our passion for life and helping others and see where that takes us". Steve's pivot to emergency education was formed through his long work with emergency services in Victoria, and he has developed a unique, common sense approach to emergency care and his delivery of First Aid and CPR courses.
Steve brings a wealth of experience that he is developing and deepening with International Paramedic College in Colac. W are so proud he has joined as and is sharing his experience with regional Victoria in and around Colac, Camperdown and Winchelsea.
Rebecca Wade
Rebecca Wade has taken a divergent path in a rich and rewarding career. Rebecca is new to the Northern Rivers area and is looking forward to a new life chapter of learning.
She has spent her working life in the caring professions, from the childcare sector to the community sector. Because of her background in developing and facilitating programs in social resilience that help and support vulnerable communities like the homeless, elderly and refugees, Rebecca really understands how one simple action can make a world of difference in someone’s life. Now she is taking that principle, focusing it, sharing that same nurturing support in a more immediate first aid response to people's immediate and life-threatening needs.
Rebecca's career has also taken her through the education & training fields to us here at International Paramedic College. While her diversified path may be a road less travelled for some, her social consciousness, action, and deeds are perfectly aligned with our ethos. We are so proud to have her onboard and able to share her experience with you as part of our team at International Paramedic College. Welcome aboard.
Allan Burnett
Allan Burnett has 20 years of experience at the front line of emergency medical care in the Ambulance Service of NSW. Originally stationed in the Riverina region and later as an Intensive Care Paramedic in Western Sydney and the Northern rivers region of NSW, Allan has developed a wealth of clinical experience over that time to share with our students.
In a step to the left and to follow his passion and interest, he shifted from saving lives in the front line of the NSW Ambulance to an educational role in a specialist area of envenomation. Allan has been travelling throughout most of Australia educating communities and raising awareness of venomous creatures, mainly reptiles.
He has an encyclopaedia of knowledge and understanding of the many snakes and venomous creatures that inhabit our wide brown land, and was invited to lecture at numerous universities for students of biology and medicine.
Allan has joined us here at International Paramedic College because he is an educator at heart and is keen to share his skills and knowledge, helping those who desire to help others.
We are proud to have Allan on board with us here at International Paramedic College
Tamieka Huxley
Tamieka has joined International Paramedic College to deliver first aid training in the Grafton, Maclean Yamba and Iluka area. A strong desire to help and for the well-being of others, Tamieka shares her time ideas and energy to help build confidence in our learners.
Tamieka commenced studies for her Bachelor in Registered Nursing, completing hospital and residential placements but like many of us who start on one path, we hear the call to travel a different path. She pivoted to emergency care and education.
Like most of us that experience life-changing events through powerful personal experiences, Tamieka's experience in emergency events in her workplace asked questions of herself and steered her along the training and education pathway. She could see how easy the gap or lack of confidence in emergency situations could be overcome with some basic first aid “know how” within the wider community. Tamieka spent time with our paramedics and educators, quenching her thirst for knowledge and finding creative ways to deliver first aid and CPR training around the Grafton, Maclean Yamba and Iluka area.
Tamieka has a young family and spends her time balancing those joys with her training. Come along and spend some time refreshing your skills and with her. We are proud to have her on board with us here at International Paramedic College.