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Advanced Care Paramedic

BC Emergency Health Services

Full-Time Irregularly Scheduled
Prince George

 

Bring your Advanced 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.

 

Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP) job highlights:

 

  • Opportunities to transfer to different regions to experience different lifestyles.
  • Provide patient care in pre-hospital emergency situations and transport by ambulance.
  • Paid medical and dental benefits, pension, vacation, and access to ongoing training.

 

What you’ll do:

 

ACP professionals provide advanced clinical care to the acutely injured as well as complex primary and urgent care patients. They provide clinical leadership on complex calls and maintain a progressive scope of practice to manage a variety of patient presentations. Every shift is guaranteed to be different, but you can expect to:

 

  • Provide patient care in, out of hospital emergency and urgent situations, using critical thinking and safe work practices at all times.
  • Advocate for patients through effective communication with colleagues, allied health care professionals and emergency service partners.
  • Provide clinical leadership and support to the patient care teams.
  • Identify issues and strategies to address complex program or system-wide issues which will enhance service delivery and patient care supported by our BCEHS research agenda.
  • Collaborate with health care teams in addressing appropriate patient care needs which may result in non-conveyance.

What you bring: 

  • Minimum of 19 years of age
  • Current ACP license to practice in the province of British Columbia (issued by EMALB).
  • Class 1, 2 or 4 BC driver's license (or out of province equivalent), or the ability to obtain within 6 months from your start date.
  • Current driver's abstract demonstrating a safe driving record.
  • Work permit for Canada (or able to obtain)
  • Strong mental resiliency and maturity; highly functional in a dynamic environment

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. 

 

As per the current Public Health Order, full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment with PHSA as of October 26, 2021.

 

What We Bring:

  • Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services, and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
  • Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as the San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
  • The ability to take your career anywhere in British Columbia.
  • Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.
  • Enjoy a comprehensive benefits package, including municipal pension plan, and psychological health & safety programs and holistic wellness resources.
  • Annual statutory holidays (13) with generous vacation entitlement and accruement.

 

 

What We Do:

 

The British Columbia Emergency Health Services (BCEHS) is the lead Emergency Medical Services (EMS) agency in British Columbia, the largest EMS provider in Canada, and one of the largest in North America responding to over 600,000 ground calls and 7,800 air calls every year. BCEHS program is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA). We are also responsible for the delivery, coordination and governance of appropriate and effective out-of-hospital and inter-facility health services throughout B.C.

 

BCEHS is part of the Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) which 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

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 PHSA must uphold legislative obligations and provincial commitments found in the foundational documents such as including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study.

 

 

To Apply

 

BCEHS and PHSA are committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply to include the required documents as an attachment. 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.
Accommodations are openly offered without consequence or negative impact to all applicants – please contact careers@bcehs.ca for further information.

 

We must have documentation of your BC ACP practice license issued by EMALB by the closing date of the posting to be considered. Should you have issues attaching documents to your online application, please forward your resume and copies of licenses to careers@bcehs.ca

 

 

Selection Process

 

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

 

Formal interviews with shortlisted candidates will be held via video conference. Candidates will be required to successfully complete a criminal record check, and a physical capacity assessment.  Canadians and those eligible to work in Canada will be considered before international applicants.

 

Successful applicants will have up to 61 days to report to British Columbia to attend an 8-day training and orientation program. Successful completion is part of an employee’s probation and is a pre-requisite to working on ambulance or being scheduled in the station.

 

Questions?

 

Please contact our external recruitment help desk via email at careers@bcehs.ca. For more information on the unique opportunities that BCEHS has to offer, visit www.bcehs.ca/careers

 

Additional Resources

 

Have you seen our latest recruitment video, featuring some of our fantastic paramedics and managers across the province?  Check out this section of our website, www.bcehs.ca/joinus where you can view the video and sign up for our mailing list if you're not quite ready to apply but want to learn more.

 

If you do not yet hold a BC class 1, 2 or 4 driver’s license, please visit the ICBC website for more information.

 

 

Union:                                  Ambulance Paramedics and Dispatchers of BC

Posting Number:                   EB 24:117

Job Location:                        Prince George

Job Type:                             Full Time Irregularly Scheduled

Number of Positions:             2

Hourly Rate:                         43.81/hr to 55.85/hr as per the 2022-2025 APADBA Collective Agreement

Start Date:                           TBD based on 61 days to report

Closing Date:                        April 29th, 2024

 

Privacy Policy

Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) respects your right to privacy and takes seriously its responsibilities regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information. Personal information is collected under the authority of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act of BC, section 26 (c). The personal information that we collect from you or about you when applying for a job with PHSA will be used to assess your qualifications and suitability as a potential employee of PHSA, as well as for the purposes of recruitment and onboarding. We may also collect and use additional personal information provided by you or your references in the course of the evaluation and hiring process that will become part of your employment file if you are a successful candidate.

Your contact information, education and experience, desired job location and pay information, eligibility and availability, core skills, job functions, getting to know you responses, resumes, cover letters, references, pre-screening questionnaire responses and job application history is recorded in PHSA’s third-party applicant tracking system (“Brainhunter”) in Canada indefinitely and will be shared with our staff on a “need to know” basis. If you require access to your data, PHSA can provide a printout of your data and job application history. We do not sell or rent the information you provide to us to third parties. However, we do contract with a service provider to assist us in maintaining and managing our databases and to communicate with job applicants. We do not authorize this third party to make any other use of your information.

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Your information is protected using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure and alteration. Some of the safeguards used are firewalls, intrusion detection, physical access controls to our data centres, and information access authorization controls.

Personal information will be used by authorized staff only to fulfil the purpose for which it was originally collected or for a use consistent with that purpose. We do not disclose your personal information to other public bodies, third parties or individuals except as required or authorized by law or with your consent. View our PHSA Privacy Policy for more information.

If you have any questions about the management of your personal information during the recruitment process, please contact the Talent Acquisition team at 604-875-7251, toll free 1-866-744-7363 or #260 – 1770 West 7th Avenue, Vancouver BC, V6J 4Y6. You may also contact External Recruitment at careers@bcehs.ca.

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