Emergency Medical Technician Guardian Medical Transport

Responsibilities

• Demonstrates ability to utilize a team approach when assisting and delivering patient care.
• Ability to critically assess a situation and call for additional resources as needed.
• Manages or assists in the assessment and treatment of simple and multi system trauma and medical emergencies.
• Demonstrates ability to administer CPR for extended periods of time.
• Demonstrates ability to identify and manage life threatening problems and assists partner(s) in managing them.
• Demonstrates ability to obtain manual vital signs.
• Demonstrates ability to interact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Demonstrates ability to manage unpredictable or emergency situations.
• Demonstrates ability to professionally interact with all levels of pre-hospital care providers from various agencies within response region.
• Interacts directly with patients, families, the general public, local community groups, law enforcement personnel, fire department personnel, physicians and nurses.
• Demonstrates ability to safely work around violent and other high risk patient populations.
• Absorbs and communicates critical information to partner(s) or clinician(s).
• Demonstrates ability to communicate via radio and cell phone.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate with providers, patient care, and continuing patient care needs to receiving clinician.
• Demonstrates ability to communicate directly with patients, families, the general public, local community groups, law enforcement personnel, fire department personnel, physicians, and nurses.
• Reports any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool.
• Attends all safety-related training programs.
• Performs work in a safe manner.
• Maintains familiarity of all GMT equipment (use, operation & troubleshooting of problems).
• Assists in the rapid deployment of equipment as needed for patient care.
• Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
• Stays current and complies with state and federal regulations/statutes and company policies that impact the employee's area of responsibility.
• If required for the position, ensures all certifications and/or licenses are up-to-date and valid prior to expiration dates.
• Completes all company mandatory modules and required job-specific training in the specified time frame.
• Completes scheduled team approach training on equipment use, maintenance, and troubleshooting.
• Follows all GMT and Arizona state rules for driving emergency and non-emergent.
• Promptly reports vehicle-related incidents per NAH driving policy.
• Dresses in appropriate GMT approved uniform and wears appropriate PPE as required.
• Adheres to NAH policy CP 111 in regards to driving record.

  Qualifications

  • High School Diploma or GED- Required
  • Associate's Or Bachelor's Degree In Related Field- Preferred
  • Current certification as an Arizona Emergency Medical Care Technician (EMCT)- Required
  • BLS (American Heart Association)- Required
  • AZ drivers license with no moving violations within the previous 39 months- Required
  • National Registry - Emergency Medical Technician- Preferred
  • Employee will obtain and maintain appropriate clinical competencies for the roles assigned by their departmental leader.
  • Prior experience providing patient care in a busy EMS system- Preferred
  • Prior Experience Working In Patient Care (hospital Based)- Preferred
  • Computers and other electronic devices are utilized across the organization and throughout each department. Colleagues must have an understanding of computers, and competence in using computers and basic software programs.