Advanced care paramedic
Emergency Medical Care Inc. • Sydney, NS, Canada
3 days ago
Job type
- Permanent
Job description
- Durée de l'emploi: Permanent
- Langue de travail: Anglais
- Heures de travail: 42 to 60 hours per week
- Education:
- Expérience:
Education
- College, CEGEP or other non-university certificate or diploma from a program of 1 year to 2 years
Work setting
- Private ambulance company
Tasks
- Assess extent of injuries or illness of trauma victims to determine emergency medical treatment
- Administer pre-hospital emergency care
- Administer medications and provide advanced emergency treatments to patients
- Transport patients to hospital or other medical facility for further medical care
- Document and record nature of injuries and treatment provided
- Assist hospital personnel with provision of medical treatment, if necessary
- Maintain ambulances and emergency care equipment and supplies
Certificates, licences, memberships, and courses
- Class 4/4F/F/4A-B-C Licence (ambulances, emergency vehicles and buses with fewer than 24 passengers)
- Emergency First Response Course
- Ambulance driver's licence
- Advanced Life Support (ALS) Certificate
Security and safety
- Confidential security clearance
- Criminal record check
- Driver's validity licence check
- Medical exam
Transportation/travel information
- Valid driver's licence
- Driver's abstract
Work conditions and physical capabilities
- Fast-paced environment
- Work under pressure
- Tight deadlines
- Repetitive tasks
- Physically demanding
- Manual dexterity
- Attention to detail
- Sitting
- Combination of sitting, standing, walking
- Standing for extended periods
- Bending, crouching, kneeling
Personal suitability
- Accurate
- Client focus
- Efficient interpersonal skills
- Excellent oral communication
- Excellent written communication
- Flexibility
- Initiative
- Interpersonal awareness
- Judgement
- Organized
- Reliability
- Values and ethics
Employment terms options
- Early morning
- Evening
- Shift
- Flexible hours
- Morning
- Night
Experience
- Experience an asset
Employment terms options
- To be determined
- Day
- Weekend
Health benefits
- Health care plan
Financial benefits
- As per collective agreement