Primary Care Flight Paramedic

Job Description:

SkyCare recruits motivated energetic and career-driven Primary Care Flight Paramedics to join our Air Ambulance team in Sioux Lookout Thunder Bay and Kitchener Ontario for a Full-Time Rotational position.

If you are looking for the quickest way to grow expand into the aeromedical field and advance in your career as a Primary Care Paramedic SkyCare is the right place for you.

SkyCare provides Air Ambulance services to the Province of Ontario through a Standing Offer Agreement managed by ORNGE. Our Paramedics are certified and work under ORNGEs Base Hospital an industry leader in Transport Medicine. You will gain vital BLS and ALS experience and skills. Apart from ORNGE SkyCare is the only Ontario-based air ambulance service currently providing ACP(f) level of care at our Thunder Bay and Kitchener bases providing the occasional opportunity to work alongside our Advanced Care Flight Paramedics (ACP(f)).

SkyCare has a private repatriation stretcher service along with provincial flights that can move patients internationally from destinations in North America Mexico and the Caribbean. SkyCare currently operates seven medevac aircraft from 3 bases in Ontario: Kitchener Thunder Bay and Sioux Lookout. Our aircraft are used for Primary Care Advanced Care and Specialty Team transports (CHEO NICU ECMO etc). Our Metro aircraft are among the largest and most capable Air Ambulance platforms in the provincial system and can provide bariatric and true team transport capabilities. SkyCare also utilizes a Westwind Jet medevac platform with best-in-class range allowing for non-stop transcontinental flights and making it an excellent tool for long-haul transfers.

The combination of emergent inter-facility hospital transfers and remote Northern patient transfers to an acute care facility will allow you to visit every corner of our great province. We work alongside many healthcare providers and create long-lasting professional connections in the industry. During your duties you will have the opportunity to interact with nearly every land-based emergency service in the province and the relationships you will make during your time at SkyCare will be invaluable.

If you are interested in working in a fast paced on call dynamic environment apply now and come join us for an exciting career. SkyCare will allow you to meet new friends learn from knowledgeable colleagues and gain first-hand insight into the Air Ambulance industry within Ontario.

Pre-flight check of the aircraft

Communicating with ORNGE dispatch and ORNGE Doctors

Providing care to patients on board the aircraft in compliance with the ORNGE medical directives BLS and all other governing laws

Post-Flight Checks documentation cleaning organizing restocking the aircraft etc.

Deep cleans of the patient care area of the aircraft and equipment

Resume

Cover Letter

References

Primary Care Paramedic Diploma

Advanced Emergency Care Assistant (A-EMCA)

ORNGE Aeromedical Theory Course (required before beginning base hospital) and pass the MOHLTC Aeromedical exam within 210 daysof completing the Theory portion.

Valid CPR BLS (HCP)

Valid First Aid

Birth Certificate

Canadian Passport

F Class Drivers License

Drivers Abstract (with less than 6 points within the last two years)

Criminal Record Check with Vulnerable Sector (within the last 30 days)

Immunization records as required by MOHLTC

Free from communicable disease as per the Communicable Disease Standard (Self-Declaration)

Copy of your post-secondary schooling/transcripts or Diploma

Valid N95 Mask Fit Testing (can be completed during base orientation)

Two passport photos date stamped within the last two weeks (for OASIS Card submission)

Ability to pass ORNGE Base Hospital and achieve PCP(f) certification

Ability to obtain MOHLTC OASIS Card

SkyCare is an equal-opportunity employer. Those selected will be contacted for the next stage of training and orientation.

Accommodations: will be provided at SkyCare crew houses (for the duration of rotation only).

Travel: Will be provided by SkyCare (from the closest airport to the assigned base of rotation)

Application deadline: Open until filled

Job Types: Full-time Permanent

Salary: $90000- $105000/ year

Dental care

Disability insurance

Extended health care

Life insurance

RRSP match

Vision care

Two weeks on two weeks off