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North Brisbane District | Metro North Region

The Graduate Paramedic works under the supervision & mentorship of experienced QAS Paramedics to develop the level of competency required to independently practice at the Advanced Care Paramedic (ACP) level. An ACP is a health professional who provides frontline pre-hospital emergency medical care. ACPs assess & documents patients’ health & medical needs to determine & implement appropriate paramedical care in line with QAS policies & procedures. Paramedics work collaboratively with the district team, the broader QAS organisation & with other health care & emergency service partner agencies to provide high quality, patient centred care to the Queensland community. My primary functions & responsibilities within this role include: - Actively participate in mentoring, teaching & development with student Paramedics to meet learning objectives. - Maintain a high standard of clinical reasoning, analytical & problem-solving skills combined with a high standard of current clinical knowledge to deliver effective pre-hospital patient care, in line with the QAS Clinical Practice Manual, scope of practice & legislation. - Carry out dynamic risk assessments within the frontline operational work environment to ensure scene, patient & personal safety during the delivery of ambulance services. - Demonstrate effective & appropriate skills in communicating information, advice, instructions & professional opinion to colleagues, patients, their relatives & carers. - Effectively manage time & prioritse workload in stressful, time-critical situations, maintaining performance under pressure without a negative impact on self or others. - Carry out pre-shift vehicle & equipment checks, ensuring that the vehicle & patient care equipment is kept safe, clean, tidy & well stocked in good working order.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

The Emergency Medical Dispatcher (EMD) role is an operational role within QAS that works collaboratively with the Operations Centre team, broader QAS organisation & other health care & emergency service partner agencies.With the EMD role there are two different job functions:- Call Taker - Process non-emergency & emergency calls, while also providing essential pre-arrival instructions to potentially highly emotive callers.- Dispatcher - Prioritise, allocate & coordinate finite QAS resources.In either function of the EMD role, a high level of judgement & decision-making ability, which must be exercised while:- Typing proficiently, accurately recording incident details;- Operating complex computer systems within a multi-screen computer environment;- Employing both assertiveness & empathy when speaking to the caller;- Triaging incoming calls for assistance using a systematic script (AMPDS) in order to determine the likely severity of the patient’s illness or injury;- Dispatch & manage multiple resource responses simultaneously;- Maintaining a high level of situational operational awareness;- Continually reflecting on operational practice; and- Maintaining fitness for duty.As a result of consistently meeting individual performance standards under minimum supervision, the active mentoring, teaching & development of students in both the call taking & dispatch roles has been a welcome addition to my responsibilities within the Operations Centre.

Queensland, Australia

1300MEDICS is the leading provider of special event & mass gathering medical services to events & venues across Australia. 1300MEDICS provides the highest level of clinical & customer care to hundreds of organisations annually across a broad range of categories. As part of my employment with 1300MEDICS I practice under an industry leading clinical governance program overseen by the Medical Director & Clinical Manager. My duties include: - Providing health services to patients within an ALS Paramedic scope of practice. - Ensuring both patient care & incident reporting is completed within required timeframes. - Rapidly developing a rapport with colleagues, clients & patients. - Participation in clinical & non-clinical equipment checks. - Communicating clearly & effectively as part of a team. - Routine operation of a variety of liveried company vehicles in a variety of environments. - Supervision & mentoring of less experienced colleagues in the pre-hospital environment.- Initial triaging of patients as they arrive at event medical centres.- Coordination & leadership of teams across multiple locations, comprised of members with varying experience & clinical skill while liaising with partner agencies (Ambulance & SES) to provide safe events and meet the needs of the client & event participants.

Australia

Team Medical Australia is the premier motorsport medical service within Australia; currently working as the preferred medical service provider to Supercar Events, Motorsport Australia Nationals – Speed Series, the Australian Grand Prix, MotoGP & World SBK Australian events. This role provides medical care to the drivers & riders participating in the events, in the event of any on-track incident, generally high-speed collisions. My duties include both on & off-track duties inclusive of: - Providing health services to patients within the Team Medical Australia ALS Paramedic scope of practice. - Staffing medical response cars either pre-positioned around the track or medical chase cars that follow drivers & riders during periods of increased collision risk. - Performing immediate medical triage of the patient in the event of a collision and rapidly communicating their status to race control to allow for activation of further resources & fully informed decisions regarding the continuation of the event. - Medical supervision of patient extrication from damaged vehicles in cooperation with motorsport fire & rescue services. - Provision of immediate medical care at the point of injury.