St John's mission is to prevent and relieve sickness and injury and to act to enhance the health and wellbeing of people of all races and creeds anywhere in New Zealand.
St John serves communities throughout New Zealand by delivering an extensive range of services and products in the health and health-related fields, including providing emergency and non-emergency ambulance services for approximately 85% of New Zealand's population.
St John operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week. We use ambulances, four-wheel-drive vehicles, rapid response units, motorcycles and other specialist vehicles to ensure we can reach people at any hour of the day in almost any terrain, weather or situation. Last year we attended nearly 400,000 emergency incidents and treated and transported over 460,000 people.
As well as responding to emergencies, St John also transports patients for arranged hospital admissions to hospital outpatient clinics and transfers patients between hospitals or from hospital to home. St John also works closely alongside Police and Fire and Emergency services by providing medical cover in emergency situations.
All applications must be submitted online. At this stage, you only need to answer a few straightforward questions and submit your answers with your covering letter and CV. Your application is then stored in our system, linked to the job you are applying for, and can immediately be seen by our Recruitment Team.
As soon as we receive your application, you'll receive a confirmation email. Once you've applied, you can track your application at any time by logging in and checking its status.
If you meet our initial shortlisting criteria, one of our Recruitment Advisors may contact you for a phone interview. This is the best time for you to ask questions and find out if you're suitable for the job.
Depending on the number of positions available in the area, we may ask you to attend an assessment centre. Assessment centres run for approximately 3 hours. Things to expect at an assessment centre will be a face to face interview, team exercise, literacy & numeracy assessment and a physical assessment.
Shortlisted applicants will be asked to attend a face-to-face interview, this is our opportunity to get to know you better and understand your skills and experience as well as an opportunity for you to find out more about working for St John.
Depending on the role you apply for, we will ask you to undergo pre-employment checks as part of the recruitment process. These could include: drug testing, psychometric, physical fitness testing, health questionnaire, driver, credit, police and criminal record checks.
All positions require a minimum of two references who can confirm your background and experience. For Paid positions, they should be managers you have reported to in your recent career history. For Volunteers, if you don't have a manager you have reported to, you can provide a character reference.
If your application is successful we will call you and offer you the role before generating your employment documents and sending them to you to review and accept.
With further training, paramedics may progress to become:
They may also move into management or education roles.
Paramedics may specialise in: