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• Salary: MDP2 / $89,253 - $144,291.00 p.a.
• Full Time / Term Contract (up to 12 Months)
• Adelaide Airport / 5950

About Us: 

SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia’s provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.

Our Vision: An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.

Our Mission: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.

Our Purpose: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state’s emergency preparedness and health response capability.

Our Values:

PATIENT FOCUSED: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.

TEAMWORK: We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.

INTEGRITY AND HONESTY: We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.

RESPECT AND COURTESY: We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.

COMMUNITY COLLABORATION: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.

CHANGE READY: We know our communities’ needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.

AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP: We will support leadership development for our people at every level.

The Retrieval Registrar will work with an experienced Retrieval Paramedic or Nurse colleague to deliver high quality, patient focussed care to critically injured adults and children. Responding by helicopter, rapid response road vehicle or turbo prop fixed wing aircraft. The Retrieval Registrar will bring experience in a critical care medical discipline to patients in both the pre-hospital and inter-facility transport and retrieval environments.

What We Offer:

• Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
• Giving back to the people of South Australia! Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
• We take care of you! Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs!

Key Responsibilities:

Perform clinical duties during retrieval operations, including stabilizing and safely transporting critically injured or ill patients by road, rotary wing, or fixed-wing aircraft within South Australia and occasionally interstate or overseas.

Participate in the operational retrieval shift roster, working 10 or 12-hour shifts, including day, evening, and night shifts, as well as periods of on-call duty.

Maintain readiness of SAAS MedSTAR clinical equipment by participating in equipment checking procedures, demonstrating a sound understanding of medical equipment functions, troubleshooting problems, and contributing to the evaluation of new clinical equipment.

Contribute to SAAS MedSTAR's audit and quality assurance processes, including reviewing work practices, participating in daily case review meetings, presenting case studies, developing and reviewing policies and procedures, and participating in relevant research projects.

Provide high-level clinical advice and logistical coordination under the supervision of a Medical Retrieval Consultant, collaborating with SAAS MedSTAR Retrieval Nurse Clinical Coordinators, SAAS, RFDS, referring and receiving facilities, and other relevant stakeholders.

Promote a positive image of SA Ambulance Service's emergency retrieval portfolio (SAAS MedSTAR) by fostering professionalism, integrity, integration, innovation, collaboration, and teamwork, and contributing to the well-being of South Australians through participation in Counter Disaster activities.

Application Information:

• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply for this role. 
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and/or additional relevant history screening that may be applicable and appropriate Immunisation screening. 
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

Job ref: 892474
Enquiries to:  David Lacquiere, Head of Unit, Performance & Standards : (08) 8274 5010 / david.lacquiere@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date  - Monday 31 March 2025 @ 11:55pm

Attachments

 Retrieval Registrar P10875 [MDP2].pdf

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