EMT, PRN (As Needed)
Job Summary
To provide a 24-hour emergency and non-emergency ambulance service with state-approved personnel. Secondary duties include maintaining up-to-date knowledge of Missouri laws governing ambulances and personnel. Supports the Village's mission, values, and service/hospitality (PRIDE) expectations.
Essential Job Functions
Administers basic life support to and transports sick or injured persons to medical facilities, working as part of an emergency medical team.
Responds to dispatcher instructions and drives specifically equipped emergency vehicles to specified locations.
Maintains communication with dispatchers and monitors communication equipment.
Removes or assists in removing victims from scenes of accidents or catastrophes.
Determines the nature and extent of illnesses or injuries, the magnitude of catastrophes, and follows medical protocols or seeks additional assistance based on statements from those involved, examinations of victims, and knowledge of emergency medical practices.
Administers prescribed basic life support at the site of emergencies or in specially equipped vehicles, performing activities such as applying splints, administering oxygen, treating minor wounds or abrasions, and administering artificial respiration.
Communicates with professional medical personnel at emergency treatment facilities to obtain instructions regarding further treatment and arrange for the reception of victims at treatment facilities.
Aids treatment center admitting personnel in obtaining and recording information related to victims' vital statistics and circumstances of emergencies.
Maintains vehicles and medical and communication equipment, replenishes first-aid equipment and supplies, and assists professional medical personnel in emergency treatments administered at medical facilities.
Adheres to all safety regulations and requirements.
Handles stress well and gets along with others within the workplace and with customers outside the department.
Maintains acceptable standards of workplace conduct.
Essential Qualifications
Education: Typically acquired through a high school diploma or GED.
Licenses/Certifications: Missouri State EMT-B and CPR certifications required. Missouri Class E driver's license or equivalent.
Knowledge and Skills: Basic level keyboarding skills required. Must maintain CEU hours required by current EMT and CPR certifications. Experience with investigations of incidents and conflicts. Experience using an ambulance. Experience using an oxygen tank, airways, suction equipment, respirators, and heart monitors. Ability to read and interpret documents. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to present information in one-on-one and small group situations. Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Excellent customer service skills required.
Special Working Conditions
Subject to both inside and outside environmental conditions, including extreme cold temperatures below 32 degrees and extreme heat above 100 degrees for periods exceeding one hour.
Subject to hazards such as proximity to moving mechanical parts, moving vehicles, electrical currents, working on scaffolding and high places, exposure to high heat, exposure to chemicals, and atmospheric conditions affecting the respiratory system of the skin.
May need to stoop, bend, kneel, crawl, reach, stand for sustained periods, walk for long distances, push, pull, lift with regular or repetitive motion, pick up, pinch, type with fingers, grasp with fingers and palm, feel attributes of an object such as size, shape, temperature, or texture by touching with skin, particularly that of fingertips, talk, hear, make fine discriminations in sound, and perform repetitive motions.
Physical and Mental Demands
Very Heavy Work: Exerting in excess of 100 lbs of force occasionally, and/or in excess of 50 lbs of force frequently, and/or in excess of 20 lbs of force constantly to move objects.
Visual Acuity: Required to operate motor vehicles or heavy equipment.
Climbing: Ascending or descending ladders, stairs, scaffolding, ramps, poles, and the like, using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.
Body Agility: Emphasized.
Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, or crouching on narrow, slippery, or erratically moving surfaces.
Stooping/Bending: Required.
Kneeling: Required.
Reaching: Required.
Standing: Required for sustained periods.
Walking: Required for long distances or moving from one work site to another.
Pushing/Pulling/Lifting: Regular or repetitive motion.
Picking Up/Pinching/Typing/Grasping: Required.
Feeling Attributes: Required.
Talking: Expressing or exchanging ideas by means of the spoken word; those activities where detailed or important spoken instructions must be conveyed to other workers accurately, loudly, or quickly.
Hearing: Perceiving the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction, and having the ability to receive detailed information through oral communication, and making fine discriminations in sound.
Repetitive Motions: Making substantial movements of the wrists, hands, and/or fingers.
Supervision Received/Given
Supervision: From Public Safety Supervisor or Public Safety Manager.
Given No Direct Supervision.