Employment

What if you could work on an ambulance and have work-life balance, all without taking a pay cut? Metro West Ambulance is currently recruiting Paramedics to join our team. With locations in both Hillsboro and Clackamas and some of the largest hospital partnerships in the area, we offer a wide variety of positions for Paramedics who are looking for a change of pace. Paramedics working in our IFT division staff ALS units which run a variety of calls, including hospital to hospital transfers (including stroke, STEMI, trauma, etc.), hospital discharges, critical care transports with our ICU level nurses, organs for transplant, and much more. Not quite ready to give up 911 completely? We also have hybrid ALS units that work a mix of IFT as well as 911 shifts. If you’re looking to expand your clinical skills, we also provide both Community Paramedicine and Critical Care Paramedic training.

With hard off times, flexible schedules, generous PTO, and additional personal days available on top of PTO, we’ve made working full time on an ambulance and actually having work-life balance a reality. We offer competitive salaries and will match your years of experience in both pay and benefits.

Requirements of the Paramedic position include:

• Current Oregon Paramedic License
• Current BLS, ACLS, PHTLS, and pediatric certifications (accepted pediatric certifications include PALS, PEPP, or EPC)
• Valid driver’s license
• Minimum of 21 years in age
• Applicants must meet Metro West Ambulance’s motor vehicle record, National/Federal and criminal background check, drug & alcohol screening, and physical requirement standards. Metro West Ambulance is a drug free work place.

Just some of our benefits include:

• 401K with employer matching (up to 5%)
• Health & dental insurance
• Paid continuing education
• Various tuition assistance programs
• Gym membership reimbursement
• Paid community volunteerism opportunities
• Paid time off, including paid sabbaticals
• $10,000 life insurance policy free to employees

With over 1,000 employees, the Metro West Ambulance Family of Companies have been Oregon’s most trusted EMS provider since 1953, delivering advanced life support and medical transportation services in Washington, Clatsop, Coos, Douglas, Roseburg, Lane and Lincoln Counties. Our Family of Companies also serve Pacific, Yakima, Clallam, Kitsap, Mason, and Thurston Counties in Washington, as well as Del Norte County in Northern California.

Metro West Ambulance is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for the position applied for without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, or other non-merit factors. Metro West Ambulance is a drug free work place.

At Metro West Ambulance Mobile Integrated Health, we offer a different type of medicine, a different type of mindset. Where wicked smart + clinically savvy + patient focused providers = amazing care right in patients homes.

We take the best of emergency response paramedic experience and combine it with a higher level of care in a virtual hospital setting. Because we know what you’re looking for is not “out there”. It’s in you. We can help you find it and live it.

As Oregon’s largest Community Paramedicine – Mobile Integrated Health provider in Oregon-we’d like to have you talk to us about joining our team and our amazing healthcare partners. Metro West Ambulance has two locations in both Hillsboro and Clackamas. We partner with our region’s largest health systems along with a national leader in virtual hospital patient treatment to provide customized, innovative mobile health care services including virtual hospital patient care, chronic disease management, surgical and urgent follow up, and low acuity patient care. With over 9 years’ experience and a team of 22 providing community paramedicine-mobile integrated health care & services, our various programs offer unique services that go beyond traditional, episodic emergency care and instead move towards a longitudinal approach to a patient’s overall health and wellness. In other words-we’ve stepped it up!

With our positions, you’re a part of a large health care team caring for patients and working with physicians, nurses, nurse practioners and other providers providing customized hospital level care to patients in their home at the hospital level.

So when we say wicked smart, clinically savvy and patient focused providers are what we want, this means motivated, highly skilled clinicians that are looking to take their care to another level. When seeing patients in a virtual hospital setting, you must be able to effectively triage, evaluate and help determine treatment based on symptoms, physical assessment, and medical history, and accurately convey findings and patient treatment needs to other medical professionals in the care team. Care includes iStat point of care lab testing, advanced medication administration and treatment including antibiotics, advanced cardiac medications, 12 lead, blood draws/blood cultures, IV placement and maintenance, foley/straight cath placement, wound evaluations and so much more!

Talk to us about joining our team and our amazing healthcare partners. Here’s what we require:

• Current Oregon Paramedic License or ability to obtain Oregon reciprocity
• Current BLS, ACLS, PHTLS, and pediatric certifications (accepted pediatric certifications include PALS, PEPP, or EPC)
• Valid driver’s license
• Minimum of 21 years in age
• Applicants must meet Metro West Ambulance’s motor vehicle record, National/Federal and criminal background check, drug & alcohol screening, and physical requirement standards. Metro West Ambulance is a drug free work place.
• Must have own vehicle – mileage reimbursement for mobile health

The ideal candidate has a minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a high performance EMS system or clinical setting but we know that there are always exceptions –you might be one of them! We’d love additional clinical training in remote medicine, critical care, pharmacology, social work or completion of a Community Paramedic Education Program is preferred (but it is not required). We offer competitive pay based on experience and knowledge base (pay is definitely negotiable-let’s talk!) and a great benefits package. For more information please contact Greg Voreis at 503-648-6658 x 135. If this is the job you’ve been waiting for- lucky you- it’s here! Apply to join our team by going to https://www.metrowest.us.com/employment. By the way, salary is negotiable and dependent on experience.

Metro West Ambulance is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of Ambulance Services and is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for the position applied for without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military/veteran status, or other non-merit factors. Metro West Ambulance is a drug free work place.