Job Listing | Community Paramedics (3 positions)

Community Paramedicine (CP) is a broad and developing model of community-based health care where paramedics use their education and expertise in non-emergent mobile integrated response, to provide immediate or scheduled primary, urgent, and/or specialized healthcare to vulnerable patient populations while focusing on improving equity in healthcare access across the continuum of care. The Community Paramedicine for Long-Term Care (CP-LTC) program has rapidly expanded as a specialized and integral division within Professional Standards to support Middlesex-London Paramedic Service (MLPS) reduce non-essential 911 calls, Emergency Department presentations, and hospital admissions. The CP-LTC program is a 24/7/365 non-emergent mobile response team with specialized training designed to work in collaboration with a patient’s primary care providers to deliver a range of community-based primary care services in the comfort of a patient’s home. A core value of CP is to provide additional supports and connections for high risk or vulnerable individuals and support the province’s modernization plan to address systemic barriers in health care. CP provides care to a variety of patient populations through several specialized programs. CP program delivery is defined through collaboration between our health care partners, to address their unique requirements. Program development will be an ongoing collaboration between MLPS and community partners. The model of care will include paramedics in an expanded scope of practice under the medical delegation of primary care provider’s and/or on-call primary care support team, including but not limited to chronic disease, complex care, point of care, and auxiliary scope of practice. As the role of the Community Paramedic expands, activities and enhancements of this role may be expanded based on identified gaps. CP is currently not included under the definition of ambulance service in the Ambulance Act, nor is it a core legislated activity under the current mandate that governs Paramedic Services and resources.