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Intensive Care Paramedic resume template
A clean starting structure with example content grounded in what intensive care paramedics actually do day to day, not generic filler. Download and replace the bracketed placeholders with your own details.
Which resume format should you use?
Reverse chronological
You have a steady work history. This is the format almost every recruiter and ATS expects by default.
Functional
You're changing fields or have gaps in your employment. Leads with skills rather than a job-by-job timeline.
Combination
You're early career or have worked consistently but for only a few employers. Blends a skills summary with a shorter chronological history.
This template uses the reverse chronological format: the one most intensive care paramedics should default to, since most Australian recruiters and ATS software expect it.
Professional summary
Intensive Care Paramedic with advanced pre-hospital clinical skills in assessment, resuscitation and retrieval. Registered with the Paramedicine Board of Australia and experienced in working autonomously under clinical practice guidelines. Committed to safe, evidence-based care and clear handover to receiving hospitals.
Key skills
- Advanced life support (intubation, IV drug administration, defibrillation)
- Clinical assessment and triage
- Medication management
- Cardiac rhythm interpretation
- Mechanical ventilation
- Patient handover and documentation
- Electronic patient care record (ePCR) systems
- LIFEPAK 15 and Zoll X Series monitor/defibrillator operation
- Video laryngoscopy
- Aeromedical retrieval coordination
- Problem solving under pressure
- Time and deadline management
Experience: example bullet points
- Assessed and triaged patients at scenes of illness and trauma, identifying time-critical interventions and coordinating transport to the most appropriate receiving facility.
- Performed advanced life support including intubation, IV drug administration and defibrillation, stabilising patients before and during transport.
- Interpreted cardiac, respiratory and neurological observations in the field, adjusting treatment in line with clinical practice guidelines.
- Coordinated with retrieval teams, receiving hospitals and other emergency services to ensure seamless patient transfer and continuity of care.
- Documented clinical care and delivered structured handovers to hospital staff, reducing ambiguity in patient presentation and treatment history.
Education
Bachelor of Paramedicine, registration with the Paramedicine Board of Australia through Ahpra, and postgraduate intensive care paramedicine training.
Keywords an ATS is likely to scan for
Applicant tracking systems match your resume against terms in the job ad before a person ever sees it. Only include the ones that actually apply to your experience, but if a term below matches something you've done, use the same wording the job ad uses.
- Intensive Care Paramedic
- Paramedicine Board of Australia
- Ahpra
- clinical practice guidelines
- advanced life support
- intubation
- IV cannulation
- defibrillation
- 12-lead ECG
- ePCR
- LIFEPAK 15
- Zoll X Series
- mechanical ventilation
- video laryngoscopy
- aeromedical retrieval
- patient handover
- pre-hospital care
- Australian ambulance services
Getting past ATS screening
- Match the specific skills, certifications and terms used in the job ad, not just your own wording for the same thing.
- Keep formatting simple: no tables, text boxes, columns, headers/footers or graphics. Parsers frequently drop content placed in these.
- Submit as .docx or PDF unless the job ad specifies otherwise.
- Use standard section headings (Experience, Education, Skills) rather than creative alternatives.
- List your core skills and technical competencies in their own section so a keyword scan can find them instantly.
This is a starting point, not a guarantee of interviews. Tailor every bullet point to your own real experience and the specific job ad.