Health Technician (Paramedic)
Indian Health Service · Pine Ridge, SD · 3 mo ago
Full-time
About the role
This position serves as a Health Technician (Paramedic). The purpose of the position is to perform basic and advanced technical health care extender functions within the emergency medical arena in response to various accidents and other emergencies involving injury and illness.
Responsibilities
- Takes vital signs
- Performs catheterizations
- Provides instructions to patients
- Affords assistance to providers in medical treatments
- Collects a wide variety of specimens
- Independently conducts a complete assessment using knowledge of topographic anatomy
- Assists with moving, lifting, and carrying patients to emergency vehicles and appropriate treatment facility
- Performs safety and maintenance inspection on emergency and patient transport vehicles and equipment
Requirements
U.S. Citizenship is required. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. This is a designated position covered by Public Law 101-630, requiring contact or control over Indian children. On-call hours or standby duty may be required. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
Qualifications
- Successful completion of a full 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, with major study or at least 24 semester hours in subjects directly related to the position.
- Must possess a current unrestricted Paramedic certification or licensure from any U.S. State.
Skills
Requires application of the knowledge, methods, and techniques of the position to be filled.
Benefits
Not specified.
Pay
Not specified.
Schedule
Not specified.