Paramedic - Float

Job Highlights

• Join a team where your work matters—every moment, every patient, every community.
• At SSM Health, you’ll be empowered to grow, supported to thrive, and inspired to make a lasting impact.
• Provide specialized care for patients with a variety of conditions while supporting in‑office procedures and treatments.
• We welcome EMTs, CMAs, and LPNs who are passionate about patient care and enjoy working in a fast‑paced, team‑oriented clinic.
• This role offers the opportunity to build expertise while making a meaningful impact on patients’ health.

Department

Multi Specialty

Schedule

PRN – No nights, weekends or holidays.

Job Summary

Provides basic and advanced life support treatment, care and evaluation of patients on scene.

Responsibilities

• Identifies, and may intervene and stabilize, the ill or injured patient during intrafacility and/or interfacility transport under the direction and in collaboration with the physician and/or Registered Nurse (RN).
• Initiates and implements interventions based on team protocols.
• Monitors, records and communicates patient condition and treatment, as appropriate.
• Provides population‑specific education to the patient and family about the patient’s illness and therapeutic interventions.
• Inspects, maintains and cares for equipment to ensure safety of the team, patients and public.
• Works in a constant state of alertness and safe manner.
• May interview patients, measure vital signs, and record information on patients’ charts.
• May prepare treatment rooms for examination of patients.
• May perform basic clerical duties including answering the phone, maintaining records, scheduling patients, and filing.
• May assist with treatments ordered by provider as supervised by provider or registered nurse.
• May perform select clinical duties.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Education

High School diploma/GED or 10 years of work experience.

Physical Requirements

• Constant use of speech to share information through oral communication.
• Constant standing and walking.
• Frequent lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 0‑25 lb.
• Frequent sitting, reaching and keyboard use/data entry.
• Frequent use of vision and depth perception for distances near (20 inches or less) and far (20 feet or more) and to identify and distinguish colors.
• Frequent use of smell to detect/recognize odors.
• Frequent use of hearing to receive oral communication, distinguish body sounds and/or hear alarms, malfunctioning machinery, etc.
• Occasional lifting/carrying and pushing/pulling objects weighing 25‑50 lb.
• Occasional lifting/moving of patients.
• Occasional bending, stooping, kneeling, squatting, twisting, gripping and repetitive foot/leg and hand/arm movements.
• Occasional driving.
• Rare crawling and running.

Required Licenses and Certifications

• Illinois: Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) – American Heart Association (AHA) and Paramedic – Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH).
• Missouri: Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) – AHA; Advanced Life Support (ALS) – AHA or Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) – AHA; Emergency Medical Technician‑Paramedic (EMT) – Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services.
• Oklahoma: Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) – AHA; Advanced Life Support (ALS) – AHA; Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) – AHA; Driver’s License – State of Oklahoma; Paramedic – Oklahoma State Department of Health; Paramedic – National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT); Driving Record – Motor Vehicle Report (MVR).
• Wisconsin: Basic Life Support HealthCare Provider (BLS HCP) – AHA and Paramedic – Wisconsin Department of Health Services.

Work Shift

Day Shift (United States of America)

Job Type

Employee