Paramedic - Field Supervisor

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Attend the required management meetings.
• Assist with the training department as needed with continuing education and orientation.
• Assigns and distributes work, reviews work for accuracy and completeness and returns assignments with recommendations for proper completion.
• Collaborate with the communications department to maximize utilization of resources.
• Review, respond to, and report all incidents and accidents in accordance with company policy.
• Inspect field personnel, quarters, and units to ensure conformity of our EMS standards.
• Collaborate with maintenance personnel to ensure safe vehicle performance.
• Initiate disciplinary actions in accordance with our EMS operating procedure.
• Determines medical disposition of patients and medical facility utilized; securing patient into ambulance and monitors the patient’s condition enroute to the hospital, providing continues medical care and treatment, and demonstrates a working knowledge of Paramedic Division destination policies.
• Assists Shift Supervisor with daily duties, acts as second in command when required.
• The Field Supervisor will be responsible for all duties assigned to them by the Operations Manager or Director of Operations.
• Responsible for reviewing the daily schedule and addressing gaps and needs during the workday.
• Responsible for maintaining supply system management: inventorying, requesting order of supplies, receiving, stocking and issuing medical and office supplies.
• Responsible for maintaining operational fleet status and communicates updates with Operations Manager to include daily vehicle checkout sheets.
• Ensures all crews are completing ePCRs in a timely fashion per company policy.
• Handles hospital and customer complaints.

Qualifications

• Current State EMT-P certification or currently enrolled in Paramedic course/class
• Requirement of 1 year of experience as an FTO
• Emergency Vehicle Operations Certification (EVOC) class completion
• Basic computer skills

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Knowledge of methods and techniques for providing on-site emergency medical services.
• Knowledge of company medical director approved protocols and standing orders.
• Ability to read and interpret local maps.
• Demonstrated skills in the successful completion of multiple, simultaneous, and rapidly emergent tasks.
• Demonstrated ability to read and understand medical terminology.
• Demonstrated ability to write reports, and correspondence.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively present information and respond to questions regarding patient care, EMS operations and other customer service issues.
• Demonstrated ability to utilize personal computer systems including PCR reporting, email, and MDT applications.
• Demonstrated ability to represent the company and other team members as an EMS professional.

Physical Requirements

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear.
• The employee frequently is required to stand and walk.
• The employee is occasionally required to sit, climb, stand, or balance.
• The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 180 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 300 pounds with assistance from others.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.