FT Irregularly Scheduled Critical Care Paramedic

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.

Please visit our website at www.bcehs.ca

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.

Please note: Candidates will be required to attend orientation to practice in Vancouver and/or Prince George. Upon successful completion of the orientation, candidates will be based at their home station and will be required to serve a three (3) year service commitment in this role. The orientation is scheduled to commence Spring 2025.

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 (mandatory and must be qualified by the closing date of the posting)

EMALB Website:

https://www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/health/about-bc-s-health-care-system/partners/colleges-boards-and-commissions/emergency-medical-assistants-licensing-board

• 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, Indigenous-specific racism and anti-racism.
• 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 (2015) and BC’s Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
• Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism 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?

Please let us know if you have any questions about our program or the recruitment process by emailing us at Careers@bcehs.ca .

To Apply

We invite all qualified applicants to apply to this posting and to include the required documents as an attachment. Please submit a current resume and cover letter.

Selection Process

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

Applications will be reviewed up to the closing date of the posting. We anticipate formal interviews and clinical assessments with shortlisted candidates will be held in Vancouver and via video conference, starting in early spring 2024. Candidates will be required to successfully complete our criminal record check and a pre-hire medical and physical capacity assessment.

For more information on the unique opportunities that BCEHS has to offer, visit www.bcehs.ca/joinus

Union: Ambulance Paramedics and Dispatchers of BC

Job Location: Vancouver and/or Prince George

Job Type: Full Time Irregularly Scheduled Employees

Closing Date: November 19, 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: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services

PHSA is committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We recognize that our ability to provide the best care for our diverse patient populations relies on a rich diversity of skills, knowledge, background and experience, and value a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment.

Reconciliation is an ongoing process and a shared responsibility for all of us. The BC Governments’ unanimous passage of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act was a significant step forward in this journey-one that all health authorities are expected to support as we work in cooperation with Indigenous Peoples to establish a clear and sustainable path to lasting reconciliation. True reconciliation will take time and ongoing commitment to work with Indigenous Peoples as they move toward self-determination. Guiding these efforts Crown agencies must remain focused on creating opportunities that implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Mandate.