Ft Irregularly Scheduled Critical Care Paramedic - Vancouver, Canada - PHSA

PHSA

Verified Company

Vancouver, Canada

3 weeks ago

Posted by:

Sophia Lee

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Description

Bring your Critical Care Paramedic experience to BC Emergency Health Services
Open the door to your career in beautiful British Columbia.

You will contribute to and promote a culture that is patient focused, supportive and respectful of all individuals embracing BCEHS values and guaranteeing that all interactions are performed with professionalism, courtesy, dignity and respect.

Critical Care services are delivered in a tiered, targeted response model, ensuring frequent exposure to high acuity and complex patients.

Job Summary

We are currently offering an opportunity for critical care paramedics to advance their skills and expertise with our provincial Critical Care Operations team.

We anticipate vacancies in our CCP streams in Vancouver and Prince George.

Duties

As a valued paramedic professional, practitioners will:

provide high quality patient care in pre-hospital emergency situations

- be a patient advocate who can communicate and interact effectively with coworkers, other allied health care professionals and public safety partners
- ensure safe, proficient, and efficient patient care and transportation
- provide clinical leadership, direction and support to ACP, PCP, and EMR employees, as required
- maintain the station, ambulance and aircraft in clean working order
- be responsible for the safe operation of ambulances
- enhance service delivery and patient care by identifying issues and strategies to address complex program or system-wide problems and concerns

Qualifications and Requirements

Ideally have a Bachelor's or Associate Degree in Paramedic Practice with Critical Care credentials
Minimum two (2) years' experience at the Critical Care level.
Hold a valid Critical Care license in the province of British Columbia, issued by the EMALB (must be qualified by the closing date of the posting)
Eligible for a class 4 BC driver's license or Canadian equivalent
Current driver's abstract (driving record)
Eligible to work in Canada or able to obtain a valid work permit for Canada

Indigenous Cultural Safety and Diversity

Knowledge of Canadian colonial impacts on Indigenous people in social and health contexts, supported by significant knowledge of Canadian and Indigenous ideologies, including knowledge, and understanding of Indigenous cultural safety, cultural humility, Indigenousspecific racism and antiracism.
Awareness of and commitment to learning and understanding the Truth & Reconciliation Commission's 94 Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Site Report (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), and Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls calls for justice, and how they intersect across the health care system.
Supports team members on their learning journey, ensuring education strategy for team/department to implement Indigenous Cultural Safety at a practical level.
Works collaboratively with appropriate Indigenous teams/departments to ensure ICS lens applied holistically.
Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and antiracism and accompanying reports (BC DRIPA, TRC, etc.)

While BCEHS would consider a foundation in Indigenous cultural safety to be a strong asset for consideration, our commitment to enhancing Indigenous cultural safety includes providing all employees with access to resources and training programs in partnership with San'yas Core Health Indigenous Cultural Safety Training and Anti-Indigenous Racism Response Training.

Questions?

To Apply

Selection Process

BCEHS must first give preference to qualified, internal applicants before we are able to consider qualified, external applicants.

Union:
Ambulance Paramedics and Dispatchers of BC

Job Location:
Vancouver and/or Prince George

Job Type:
Full Time Irregularly Scheduled Employees

Number of Positions:
Up to 6

Closing Date:
March 21, 2024

What we do

BC Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) provides provincial emergency medical care and patient transfer services and is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA).

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province.

Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include:
Respect people - Be compassionate - Dare to innovate - Cultivate partnerships - Serve with purpose.

Learn more about PHSA and our programs:

PHSA is committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We recognize