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Prairie Harm Reduction is seeking one (1) Primary Care Paramedic (EMT/PCP) to staff our Safe Consumption Site (SCS) that is opening October 1st, 2020. The PCP will be responsible for:
-Building relationships with people who use drugs in a non-judgmental manner
-Educating people who use drugs on safer drug use
-Monitoring people while they use drugs to ensure that they are using as safely as possible
-Medically intervening during overdoses including but not limited to administering naloxone, administering oxygen, and performing CPR.
-Minor wound care
-Maintain SCS space in a safe clean manner, that adheres to Covid-19 precautions.
-Ensure statistics are kept up to date on SCS clients
-Crisis de-escalation
-Must be in good standing and have a valid registration with the Saskatchewan College of Paramedics at the PCP/EMT level.
-Working knowledge of the legislation, protocols and scope of practice as applicable to EMS practitioners within the province of Saskatchewan
Knowledge and experience in the following is considered an asset:
-Trauma Informed Care
-Harm Reduction
-Indigenous culture
-Community supports and programming
-2SLGBTQ
-HIV and HCV
-Street drugs
-Drug use
Must be able to start no later than September 14th 2020, prefered start date is September 1st, 2020.
Hours: Mon-Fri 9am-4:30pm, except statutory holidays, and one paid week off at Christmas.
Benefits: Paid by employer - Must successfully pass three (3) month probation period.
Vacation: 3 weeks accrued per 12 months
Sick Pay: 3 weeks accrued per 12 months
Uniform Provided
Essential Skills
- Reading text
- Document use
- Numeracy
- Writing
- Oral communication
- Working with others
- Problem solving
- Decision making
- Critical thinking
- Job task planning and organizing
- Finding information
- Computer use
- Continuous learning
- Significant use of memory
Specific Skills
- Administer medications and provide advanced emergency treatments to patients
- Administer pre-hospital emergency care
- Maintain ambulances and emergency care equipment and supplies
- Document and record nature of injuries and treatment provided
- Assess extent of injuries or illness of trauma victims to determine emergency medical treatment
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