Posted 18 months ago
Primary Care Paramedic
@ Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
Newfoundland and Labrador
Overview
Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services is hiring a full-time Primary Care Paramedic at the St. Lawrence Base on the Burin Peninsula. The role involves driving an ambulance and providing basic and advanced emergency care, with rotating 8 and 12-hour shifts, 75 hours biweekly and on-call or standby duties. Pay is CG-29, $32.71 to $37.40 per hour, with sign-on incentives available.
Pay:
$32.71–$37.40 an hour
Responsibilities:
- Operate an ambulance responding to emergency and routine calls
- Provide basic and advanced emergency care to patients
- Assess, stabilize and report on illnesses and injuries
- Lift and move patients and equipment, including stretchers
Requirements summary:
- Completion of a Primary Care Paramedic program
- Registration with the Provincial Medical Oversight Program
- Valid Class 4 Driver's License
- Emergency care experience
- Current CPR certification
Tools & skills
Source and dates
Source type not verified · nlhs
- Employer posting date
- 2025-05-06
- First seen by our source
- 2026-11-05
- Source record updated
- 2026-11-05
These dates describe the source record, not a live verification that the employer is still hiring. Check the original posting.
Job details
| Department | Allied health |
| Hours per week | 75 |
| Schedule | day, evening, weekends, overnight |
| Travel | air: none · ground: minimal |
| Work setting | Vehicle, Client sites |
| Position | On the move |
| Physical demands | physical high · lift 100 lb · computer low |
| Licences & certifications | Primary Care Paramedic registration, Provincial Medical Oversight Program registration, Class 4 Driver's License, CPR |
| Driver’s licence | required |
| Background checks | driving record |
| Education | Trade certificate (required) |
| Fields of study | Primary Care Paramedic |
| Perks mentioned | Relocation assistance, Signing bonus, Performance bonus |
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Newfoundland and Labrador Health Services
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Headquarters | St. John's |
| Open jobs on Jobsy | 1,001 |
| Zone: Eastern Rural Zone Location: St. Lawrence Base - Burin Peninsula Primary Care Paramedic Paramedicine and Medical Transport Permanent, Full-Time 27586POS |
|---|
| Hours | 75 bi-weekly (8 and 12-hour rotating shift work; days, nights, evenings, weekends, on-call, standby) |
| Salary | CG-29 ($32.71 - $37.40 per hour) The following Sign on Incentives may be applicable and can be combined: |
| Competition Number | VAC0011072 |
| Posted Date | 2025-05-07 |
| Closing Date | Open until filled |
| Demands, duties, qualifications | Job SummaryThe work of a Primary Care Paramedic involves operating an ambulance in responding to emergencies and routine calls and providing skilled basic and advanced emergency care to persons suffering from a variety of illnesses and injuries. The Primary Care Paramedic is required to assess, stabilize and report on the nature and severity of the illness or injury. Work is performed with considerable independence and is reviewed through observation, examination of records/reports and the presence or absence of valid complaints. Reports directly to the Operations Supervisors. Job DemandsBy applying for this job, you acknowledge an understanding that regular requirements and demands of this job include (but are not limited to): Regularly lifts and moves patients and equipment (between 25-50 lbs.) and involved in heavy lifting/pushing/pulling of stretchers (100 lbs.) and patients. Constantly stands, bends, stretches, kneels or pushes and pulls, sometimes in small and cramped spaces. Constantly requires visual concentration or alertness to drive ambulances, complete site and patient assessments and to administer medications. Regularly there are time pressures in the pre-hospital emergency setting. Regularly there is lack of control over work pace occurs due to the unpredictable situations during a medical emergency, or unpredictable call volume. Job QualificationsCompletion of Primary Care Paramedic Program. Registration with the Provincial Medical Oversight Program. Possession of a valid Class 4 Driver’s License as issued by the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Experience in Emergency Care is required. A satisfactory record of work performance is required. A satisfactory code of conduct, a driver’s abstract, original education documents, proof of registration and current CPR are conditions of employment. The applicant must also participate in a pre-placement capabilities test. |
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