Job Openings Everywhere in Manitoba

[Richard]

Anyone who wants work out here will find it right now.

Virtually every health authority in the province is begging for bodies right now.

If you don't mind working in the sticks this is the place for you.

Housing is dirt cheap, the pay is pretty good, and the licensing process is not even a pain in the ass.

Supervisors are on their hands and knees begging all the staff to head hunt everyone they can.

If anyone is interested, let me know.

[spenac]

Guess I could commute from Texas.

Are the openings from growth, or are they from people leaving because of poor treatment?

[HellsBells]

Hey, what is the process for equivalency from Alberta to Manitoba? Furthermore, exactly what kind of wages are the norm out there? Any numbers?

[courageheartx]

I know in Winnepeg you need to go through the winnipeg fire/paramedic school which is listed on the CMA website. A good majority of the schools in the peg send their students send their students to the U.S for practicums. None the less,its a very americanized city.

Here's the link.

Winnipeg Fire Paramedic Service

As for individuals in Canada,I don't know how the compentencies come together,but you can always contact their health region

Manitoba Health

[kitkat]

You are not required to be cross-trained as a FF any longer to be hired for the EMS division. To be hired on fire side you must be a PCP.

Winnipeg has essentially come to their senses and realized rentetion on EMS side was not working with x-trained individuals. They would use EMS to hang out in for a while then make a lateral move to the fire side. Long story of a botched amalgamation. yada yada,

We now have 26 paramedics hired as PCP's most with experience, mostly coming out of the rural services. Therefore the openings all over Manitoba, take your pick.

Winnipeg EMS does in house training for ACP at this time, and they are running a pilot PCP project in conjuntion with Manitoba Emergency Services College(Brandon, Manitoba) otherwise they do not have a academy for the public at this time.

[BEorP]

How much time do you need to put in as a PCP before you can get the ACP training/education?

[kitkat]

If you are a PCP starting in Winnipeg, min. 2 years on the emergency division. (as it stands now?)

The way it is now, they take go by senority, but....there is a selection process to get into the ACP program. This includes a written testing componant, and then if you have a high enough mark, you have an interview. There is a marked interview with training staff and the Medical Director.

Now, with the ACP program, they have divided it into essentially a 2 year program, the 1st year, is called ICP (intermediate)** you are taking classes while you are still working, booked off for paid class days, or paid on your days off if on clinicals, or class,** after completing year 1 you work min. a year as ICP on the emergency units (or up to 6 years grace) and then head into year 2 called ACP.

They have taken ACP's from other provinces, they get evaluated by the M.D, and training staff, and the M.D deceides if they will practice at full scope.

Keep in mind that Winnipeg does not offer ACP's full scope of NOCP's, as in pediactrics. They have Medical Supervisors that do "high risk/low volume" calls. CQI. etc. They are in chase Tahoes and respond if these calls require their assistance, or if a PCP crew requires ALS, and another ALS unit is not avalible.