Emergency Medical Technician

About This Role

This Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) role involves serving as a patient care transport team member, coordinating immediate transport responses, and ensuring safe on-ground transfers between healthcare facilities. The EMT assesses, monitors, intervenes, and stabilizes Harris Health System patients during transport under the direction of the EMS medical director's guidelines. The role also contributes to quality improvement initiatives and ongoing staff education.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a patient care transport team member
• Coordinate the execution of an immediate transport response encompassing detection, activation, assessment, stabilization, disposition, and evaluation of all patients requiring safe on-ground transfer
• Assess, monitor, intervene, and stabilize Harris Health System patients during transport under the direction of the Harris Health System Emergency Medical System (EMS) medical director's guidelines
• Facilitate team huddles, debriefings, and evaluation of patient transports
• Contribute to quality and performance improvement initiatives in conjunction with ongoing education and training to staff
• Serve as a clinical expert and consultant to support the healthcare system in providing patient-centered, culturally competent, outcome-focused, patient transports
• Align practice with state and national EMS accreditation standards, and organizational policies and procedures

Requirements

• High School Diploma
• Basic Life Support from a hospital-based American Heart Association (AHA) approved program
• Emergency Medical Technician in the State of Texas
• Texas Driver's License
• Two (2) years of work experience in a related field
• Above average verbal communication (heavy public contact)
• Exceptional verbal communication (e.g., public speaking)
• Writing/Correspondence skills
• Writing/Reports skills
• PC proficiency
• Analytical skills
• Knowledge of medical terms
• Able to work according to specific, subject to extreme weather conditions

Important Details

• Work Schedule: Flexible
• Equipment Operated: Vehicle, Computer, Standard Patient Care Equipment

About the Company

Harris Health is the public healthcare safety-net provider established in 1966 to serve the residents of Harris County, Texas. It champions better health for the entire community, focusing on low-income uninsured and underinsured patients through acute and primary care, wellness, disease management, and population health services. Ben Taub Hospital (Level 1 Trauma Center) and Lyndon B. Johnson Hospital (Level 3 Trauma Center) anchor its network of 39 clinics, health centers, specialty locations, and virtual (telemedicine) technology. Harris Health has achieved Magnet nursing excellence designation for its hospitals and National Committee for Quality Assurance designation for its patient-centered clinics and health centers, and partners with physician faculty, residents, and researchers from Baylor College of Medicine, McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth), and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.