Primary Care Paramedic

Your Opportunity

Grow your career under the northern lights! If you welcome a different pace of life and look for the chance to use the full scope of your clinical practice, EHS in Northern Alberta could be the right fit for you. Gain experience in our diverse northern landscape, surrounded by expansive prairie fields, bustling urban centers, lush wetlands, boreal forests, and sprawling mountain passes.

Discover hidden gems, stunning scenery, and friendly people as you explore our enormous backyard in all seasons. Emergency Health Services - Alberta can offer you a career that fits your lifestyle and numerous opportunities for professional growth and development. Joining EHS means becoming a part of an exceptional team. In addition to competitive compensation and flexible benefits, EHS currently has a Remote Retention Allowance in place to an annual maximum of $3,000.

This allowance is non‑pensionable and is payable on an hourly basis for all hours paid at the basic rate of pay.

Where you will be stationed:
Slave Lake is a young and diverse town, offering a small city feel, but is also close to big city amenities with Edmonton only 256 km away. The town offers endless opportunities for an outdoor enthusiast. From rugged wilderness hiking to camping, hunting, fishing and swimming, the Lesser Slave Lake boasts seven kilometres of pristine, white sand beaches. This could be the opportunity you’ve been waiting for to live, work, and play in northern Alberta.

See what EHS has to offer you. New graduates and international applicants with valid work visas are welcome to apply. This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies.

As a Primary Care Paramedic (PCP), you will assess emergency scenes and patients and may transport ill or injured patients from emergency scenes and between facilities. This includes operating ambulances or other modes of transportation. You may treat patients by administering minor medications, basic life support (BLS) airway adjuncts, and semi‑automated defibrillation. You may also lead the BLS crew in delivering clinical care during patient transport or at emergency scenes.

You will assist with ensuring that ambulances or other Emergency Medical Services (EMS) vehicles, such as non‑emergent transport (NET), are properly stocked and equipped. The working environment for a PCP is demanding and includes exposure to heat, cold, rain, snow, and wind, moving traffic, and industrial and agricultural equipment. You will need to travel in all weather conditions and to remote locations (e.g., backcountry) with exposure to hazardous and graphic scenes and direct exposure to bodily fluids.

The working conditions for a PCP are also physically demanding. You must be able to endure frequent lifting and carrying of up to 105 lbs, while transporting and transferring patients, supplies, and equipment. You must be able to endure frequent, simultaneous kneeling and trunk flexion for extended periods. Additionally, you must stand and sit for extended periods, bend, twist, side‑carry up to 20 lbs in each hand and assume awkward positions.

• Transition Company: Emergency Health Services
• Classification: Primary Care Paramedic (2190)
• Union: HSAA Facility PROF/TECH
• Unit and Program: Emergency Health Services
• Primary
  
  Location:
  
  Slave Lake EMS
• Location Details: As Per Location
• Multi‑Site: Not Applicable
• FTE: 1.00
• Posting End Date: 08‑JAN‑2026
• Temporary Employee Class: Temp F/T Benefits
• Date Available: 29‑JAN‑2026
• Temporary End Date: 31‑JAN‑2027
• Hours per Shift: 12
• Length of Shift in weeks: 8
• Shifts per cycle: 28
• Shift Pattern: Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, On Call
• Days Off: As Per Rotation
• Minimum Salary: $32.69
• Maximum Salary: $41.27
• Vehicle Requirement: Not Applicable

Non‑restricted registration in good standing with the Alberta College of Paramedics (ACOP) as a Primary Care Paramedic (PCP). Current Basic Cardiac Life Support CPR certification. Must hold or be able to obtain a valid class 4 Alberta Operator License or equivalent and a five (5) year driver abstract current within six (6) months with no more than six (6) demerits prior to commencing work.

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