Paramedic

Job Summary

As a Paramedic, you will provide advanced emergency medical care and transport to critically ill or injured patients in pre-hospital and inter-facility settings. Every day you will rapidly assess scenes, evaluate conditions, and administer life-saving interventions, while safely operating emergency vehicles and documenting care.

Responsibilities

• Rapidly assess scenes and evaluate conditions to provide life-saving interventions.
• Safely operate emergency vehicles and document care.
• Demonstrate expert clinical skills, exceptional critical thinking under stress, and compassionate communication.
• Maintain established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement program, and safety standards.
• Perform patient systems assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner.
• Enter patient data into computerized patient care reporting system to ensure no deficiencies.
• Administer medications and perform procedures consistent with Paramedic certification and selected S-SV EMS treatment protocols.
• Participate in problem identification and patient care planning.

Requirements

• Required: High School Graduate General Studies and Six months experience as a paramedic with an accredited EMS agency or Fire Department.
• Hiring manager may consider applicants' field internship as qualifying experience if the preceptorship was completed at a Dignity Health North Service Area facility and successfully completed, upon hire.
• Preferred: Neonatal Resuscitation Program, Prehospital Trauma Life Support, Stable Program, upon hire.