Agency Department of Health Work unit Community Allied Health and Aged Care

Job title Senior Urgent Care Paramedic Designation Professional 3

Job type Full time Duration Fixed to 30/06/2028

Salary $114,199 - $127,898 Location Darwin

Position number 70262392 RTF 353131 Closing 16/08/2026

Contact officer Kim Clayworth on 0401 116 119 or [email protected]

About the agency http://www.health.nt.gov.au/

Apply online https://jobs.nt.gov.au/Home/JobDetails?rtfId=353131

APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY

QUALIFICATIONS.

Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.

Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the

OCPE website.

Primary objective

Ensure delivery of effective, high quality, and culturally appropriate urgent community aged care paramedic services, whilst providing clinical leadership and supervision to urgent care paramedics within NT Health.

Context statement

This role will support implementation of an urgent community aged care paramedicine model of care designed to strengthen the interface between community, primary care, and hospital services by providing timely, proactive care to older people, reducing avoidable hospital use and supporting care closer to home. The applicant may be required to work within an extended hours service model, which may include weekends.





Key duties and responsibilities

1. Provide timely, clinically, and culturally appropriate urgent care paramedic services within a multidisciplinary framework.
2. Provide expert advice on program and clinical issues within an urgent community aged care paramedicine context.
3. Provide leadership, supervision, mentorship and education to staff and students.
4. Independently organise and manage a high-volume complex workload within a dynamic and evolving work setting to ensure

timelines and health outcomes are met and work unit goals and key performance indicators are achieved.
1. Recognise the limits of own expertise and seek multidisciplinary advice to ensure safe patient care is delivered and safe transitions of

care are practiced.
- Initiate, implement and complete research, continuous quality improvement and service development activities at a local or regional level to ensure delivery of contemporary urgent community aged care paramedic services.
- Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in order to ensure high quality, safe services, and workplaces.
- Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Tertiary qualification, or equivalent, in Paramedicine and current, unrestricted Paramedic registration with the Paramedicine Board of

Australia.
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A minimum of 3 years active experience as a paramedic in a high-volume acute care setting and/or rural, remote, or military experience

with proven emergency medical exposure to endorse a capability of independent contemporary paramedic practice.
- Demonstrated awareness and understanding of Aboriginal culture and proven experience in working effectively with patients and families/carers of diverse cultural and social backgrounds.
- Proven high level communication and interpersonal skills, including well developed negotiation and conflict management skills with significant experience working in a multi-disciplinary team environment to achieve positive health outcomes.
- Extensive experience in clinical mentoring and supervision of students and staff and a commitment to professional development.
- Proven ability to initiate, implement and complete continuous quality improvement and service development activities.

1. Proven ability to efficiently and effectively organise and manage a high-volume complex workload.
2. Demonstrated high level leadership skills with capacity to provide leadership in a team environment.

Desirable

1. Possess or undertaking a relevant postgraduate qualification in Primary Health Care, Community/Urgent Care Paramedicine or similar.
2. Demonstrated background in teaching, mentoring, networking, and capacity building.
3. Possess or undertaking a Certificate IV Training and Assessment.

Further information The preferred or recommended applicant will be required to hold a current working with children clearance notice and undergo a criminal history check. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is relevant to the position. This role carries specific immunisation requirements - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances).

📌 Senior Urgent Care Paramedic (Darwin)
🏢 NT Health
📍 Darwin