This posting is for a 6-month casual. Temporary Assignments will be considered.
The Yukon's Emergency Medical Services (YEMS) team delivers a wide scope of pre-hospital care. We deliver medical interventions, treatments, and critical care in every corner of the Yukon.
Leadership, dedication, and partnership guides our work. We enact these qualities from the moment we receive a call to the time when we transfer a patient at a health care facility.
Working in a dynamic, fast-paced environment, the Superintendent Community Operations, is responsible for supervising and providing leadership to the Watson Lake EMS team to ensure effective and efficient shift to shift and day to day operations of Watson Lake EMS. This includes implementing procedures to enhance performance and to ensure that Yukon EMS meets established service goals and objectives. Watson Lake EMS constitutes Air and Land ambulance operations.
The ideal candidate will have strong strategic thinking skills, client service orientation and a flexible, proactive approach to working with staff, colleagues, and clients. They will resolve issues and problems using strong negotiation skills, as well as making decisions with integrity using balanced judgement.
For more information about this position, please contact: Eric Grasholm Deputy Chief, Community Operations at Eric.Grasholm@yukon.ca
For more information on the application process, please contact Desiree Martsinkiw, Human Resource Consultant at Desiree.Martsinkiw@yukon.ca
Essential Qualifications
Note that selection for further consideration is based solely on the information you provide in your resume.
Include the month and year you started and ended a job when you list your work experience. This allows us to accurately calculate the length of time you were in the position. For more information on how to prepare and submit your resume visit this resource page on Yukon.ca.
- Current registration within Canada as a Paramedic. (PCP, ACP, CCP)
- Significant Experience providing pre-hospital medical care as a Paramedic. (PCP, ACP, CCP)
- Experience in managing human, financial, and material resources or supervising staff and/or providing leadership.
- Experience developing policies, procedures, and protocols; and
- Experience liaising with agencies to provide pre-hospital medical care.
- Candidates who have education, training, and/or experience equivalent to the essential qualifications listed above may be equally considered.
Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Suitability
Candidates will be expected to demonstrate their competence according to the standard set by the Yukon Government Core Competency Framework
This competition will specifically focus on, but not limit itself to, the following competencies:
Thinking Strategically: Takes a comprehensive, long-term view, critically assessing options and implications, while linking decisions to strategic goals.
Leading Change and Innovation: Leads the organization effectively through fast changing environments, and creates and implements a vision of an organization that is willing to take risks and test new approaches.
Promoting Common Values and Ethics: Promotes the establishment, development and application of positive organizational values, ethics and standards of conduct.
Influencing Others: Generates commitment while inspiring others. Builds coalitions internally and externally, to reach the organization’s goals by using a variety of methods and adapting influence approaches, and by effectively using knowledge of how the organization really works.
Developing People: Fosters the learning and development of others through supportive relationships. Transfers expertise and builds the long-term leadership capability of others by teaching, coaching and/or mentoring them.
Conditions of Employment:
Medical clearance, security clearance including vulnerable sector check, valid Yukon class 4 driver's licence, baseline hearing test, maintaining current PCP, CCP and or ACP certification.
Job Requirements:
Shift work, including weekends and standby, wearing a uniform and maintaining all conditions of employment.
