Primary Care Paramedic

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Requisition : 378897
Position Number: Multiple Positions
Posting End Date: Open Until Filled
City: Swan River
Employer: Shared Health
Site: Shared Health - Swan River
Department / Unit: ERS-EMS - West Zone
Job Stream: Clinical
Union: MAHCP
Anticipated

Start Date:

To Be Determined
FTE: 1.0
Anticipated Shift: Days;
Nights;
Weekends;
Standby Coverage as required
Work Arrangement: In Person
Daily Hours Worked: 12 Hour Day and Nights + OC
Annual Base

Hours:

2184
Salary: $28.337, $31.195, $34.354, $37.559, $40.951, $44.492

Shared Health leads the planning and coordinates the integration of patient-centered clinical and preventive health services across Manitoba. The organization also delivers some province-wide health services and supports centralized administrative and business functions for Manitoba health organizations.

Primary Care Paramedics provide care to patients as part of a multi-disciplinary health care team and are dedicated to providing compassionate, high-quality health care services.

The Primary Care Paramedic is responsible for providing accessible, responsive, and integrated patient care at all times. They collaborate with health care providers, allied emergency service agencies, and other community agencies. This role is responsible for the safe, effective operation and use of vehicles and equipment as per Manitoba Provincial Regulations, Acts, and Shared Health policy.

The Primary Care Paramedic will be expected to conduct themselves professionally, ethically, and demonstrate commitment to the mission, vision, values, goals, objectives, and policies of Shared Health.

• Experience providing pre-hospital care as an Emergency Medical Responder or Primary Care Paramedic.
• Competent in an Indigenous language and/or knowledge in Indigenous customs, traditions and values.
• Working with individuals from diverse cultural, social and ethnic backgrounds.
• Experience working in patient relations and/or in a customer service capacity.
• Use of Shared Health ERS and Digital Health technology, software programs, and equipment.
• Both official languages are essential for designated bilingual positions, to ensure health services are readily available and easily accessible in both official languages.
• Ability to communicate in multiple languages.

• Graduate of a Primary Care Paramedic program held by an accredited Canadian education institution, or a College of Paramedics of Manitoba approved equivalent.

• Certificate of Practice with the College of Paramedics of Manitoba – Member in good standing, at minimum at the Primary Care Paramedic level.
• Must have a valid Class IV Manitoba driver’s license.
• Basic Life Support (BLS), level C or equivalent.

• Demonstrates and encourages others to follow the principles of the LEADS framework;
  Leading themselves, Engaging others, Achieving results, Developing coalitions, and participating in System transformation.
• Desired
  
  Certifications:
• Pediatric Emergency Assessment, Recognition, and Stabilization (PEARS)
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP)
• Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (EVOC)
• College of Paramedics of Manitoba Standards of Practice
• Scope of Practice as documented in the Regulated Health Professions Act
• Manitoba Emergency Medical Response and Stretcher Transportation Act
• Manitoba Highway Traffic Act
• Shared Health clinical protocols, care maps and associated documents
• Personal Health Information Act (PHIA)
• Other applicable Shared Health policies, procedures, guidelines, and directives

• Applicants are required to provide a Physical Fitness Assessment by an approved fitness assessment provider.
• Applicants are required to complete a job-related written test of clinical knowledge.
• Travel by multiple vehicle types, where inclement weather conditions are anticipated. General risks of responding to a variety of ERS calls.
• Exposure to a variety of high-stress, physically, mentally, and emotionally demanding situations, and potential for exposure to communicable…