The Doctors Tikipunga - Extended Care Paramedic

The Doctors Tikipunga have a rewarding opportunity for an experienced Extended Care Paramedic to join our supportive and innovative team. We are a long established medical centre in Whangarei; where collaboration and equity are at the forefront of everything we do.

• Phone triage and seeing on the day presentations
• 24-40 hours per week
• No weekend work required

About The Role

The Extended Care Paramedic (ECP) is a paramedicine professional stream works and in collaboration with other members of the multidisciplinary team to provide care management and same day urgent care. Besides providing urgent care, GCPs attend both scheduled and unscheduled low acuity patients across the age range, where they undertake a thorough clinical assessment of the patient's medical history and condition, order any pathology testing as required, interpret the results, and based on a clinical diagnosis, institute a short to medium term care plan with appropriate medical referral as required. The GCP has a significant understanding of pathophysiology, pharmacology, and disease process.

This is a permanent full time position working 24- 40 hours across Monday to Friday.

Do you have what we are looking for?

• Degree in Paramedicine
• Full ECP scope of practice
• In-depth experience in clinical practice, ideally in a or a range of health and community service settings
• A good understanding of developing and maintaining clinical systems
• Demonstrated multi-stakeholder management, including health institutions.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to build a strong rapport with team members.
• A physically fit person who is resilient, confident, friendly, and approachable.

The Doctors Medical Centres is New Zealand’s largest network of GPs and primary healthcare providers, trusted by over 400,000 Kiwis. With more than 65 medical centres across the country, we make it easy to access personalised care - when and where it is needed most.

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Applicants for this position should have NZ residency or a valid NZ work permit.