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• Salary: CED4.2 / $119,118.00 p.a. pro rata
• Part Time (0.5 FTE) / Term Contract (12 months)
• Location: Eastwood / 5063

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 Primary objectives of the Paramedic Research Fellow are to;

• Make independent and original contributions to ethical, high-quality, and innovative research.
• Develop and coordinate activities to enable evidence-based research to be undertaken in SAAS. This research will be both monitor and measure clinical practice and support clinical advances to ambulance practice.
• Oversea activities designed to enable the creation and maintenance of an ambulance service research platform including collaborating with other ambulance services, healthcare services, universities, and research institutes.

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: 

Application Information: 

• The role is currently offered at a 0.5 Part Time FTE, however, increase in hours may be offered in partnership with Flinders University.
• 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:907935
Enquiries to: Dylan Milde, Operations Manager - National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards: 

0421 729 966 / dylan.milde@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date

Friday 25 July 2025 @ 11:55pm

Attachments

 Paramedic Research Fellow - Role Description V12.pdf