Critical Care Paramedic - Red Bay EMS - PRN - Shift Varies

Responsibilities

• All duties outlined in the Paramedic job description
• Ensure personal safety and the safety of others
• Perform patient assessment and provide emergency care
• Safe lifting, moving, patient transport, and transfer
• Record keeping and data collection
• Patient advocacy
• Demonstrate leadership qualities and mentor other Paramedics/EMTs through teaching and feedback
• Provide care for high acuity patients while demonstrating exceptional patient care skills
• Effectively communicate with physicians and other agencies/departments
• Exceptional patient assessment skills
• Exceptional airway management skills and knowledge
• Provide ventilator management
• Manage various IV pumps
• Administer multiple medications and blood products simultaneously
• Knowledge of medications associated with emergency and/or critical care
• Approved by the EMS Medical Director through continued evaluation

Requirements

• Current Alabama license as a Critical Care Paramedic
• Certifications: FPC/CCP-C, ACLS, PALS, BLS, BTLS/PHTLS
• 3 years of experience as a licensed Paramedic
• 1 year of experience as a primary care provider in the pre-hospital environment

Skills

• Capable of working overtime as required
• Flexible scheduling to meet department and hospital staffing needs
• Available for on-call when required
• Knowledge of, or ability to gain, skills necessary to administer care under critical care protocols and guidelines established by the medical director and/or the ADPH, including:
  • Specialized equipment
  • Advanced medications
  • Intubation
  • IV and intraosseous access
  • Advanced cardiac monitoring
  • Complex ventilator management
  • Dynamic patient assessments
  • Radiology interpretation
  • Rapid decision making and planning