Paramedic

Job Summary

Paramedics will use basic life support skills to identify, care, communicate, and document injuries, method of treatment, rehabilitation, and medical releases. Paramedics will provide patient care and ensure proper coordination of EMS transportation (if required) and function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight.

Required Qualifications

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent.

• Certifications: Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Basic Life Support (BLS).

• Licenses: Current National EMT-P Certification (National Registry) or state license at the EMT-Paramedic level, or higher. Successful completion of a CAAHEP- accredited Paramedic program (or a program that has been issued a CoAEMSP "Letter of Review") within the past two (2) years. All Paramedics who started their Paramedic education program after August 1, 2016 are required to successfully complete a psychomotor competency portfolio.

• Experience: 3 years of experience as a Paramedic within the last 5 years.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess a patient’s condition and determine a course of treatment per local protocol.

• Provide triage for student(s) incapable to perform in training due to medical and musculoskeletal reasons. Triage will be used to determine:

  • If student is stable, refer all medical conditions to the physicians on staff.
  • If student is stable with an exclusively musculoskeletal condition, refer to athletic trainers and/or sports medicine physicians for assessment and reconditioning.
  • If student is unstable will activate Emergency Management System (EMS) and arrange for transport to nearest emergency center.

• Assigned to medical monitoring of training event modules per direction from Government to provide medical coverage, including both aquatic and land-based training.

• Respond, stabilize, and activate EMS in response to physical trauma, heat stroke, near drowning episodes or other emergencies, per local protocol.

• Summarize the nature of injury and emergency care rendered to the receiving EMS responders.

• Inventory, replace, and clean all supplies and equipment after use.

• Aid with maintenance of supplies, clinical spaces, and medical response vehicles.

Work Environment & Schedule

• On site: Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• Work a non-standard schedule, extended hours, and/or rotating shifts which may include early morning, evenings, nights, weekends and holidays.

Physical Requirements

• Swimmer, successfully pass all standards on the Navy Physical Readiness Test current revision & conduct medical recompression chamber duties.

• Must be able to traverse uneven and/or wooded territory to reach patients in field conditions.

• Must be able to extricate patients from field conditions to an appropriate medical response vehicle.

• Perform various exercise procedures under stress, including lifting heavy weights potentially up to 100 lbs., squatting, sitting, running, jumping, bending, walking, crawling (low/high profile) for up to 25 meters, and prolonged standing.

• Must be able to move over, around, and through obstacles to a height of 10 feet, and travel up to 1.5 miles over rough terrain in extreme temperatures.

Compensation & Benefits

Up to $60,500/year.

Decypher is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce (M/F/D/V).