About This Role
This paramedic role supports the EMS Medical Director and Manager, providing pre-hospital emergency care and transportation to medical facilities. It suits a professional who can assess, plan, and implement patient care while collaborating with other providers to ensure excellent outcomes.
Responsibilities
- Perform medical and trauma patient assessments, establish care priorities, and render necessary and appropriate care within policy, protocol, and scope of practice
- Assess, plan, implement, and collaborate with other providers to ensure excellence in patient and family care during pre-hospital emergency care and during transportation to a medical facility
- Work in coordination with the EMS Shift Supervisor and/or Lead Medic to complete EMS staff duties and assignments
- Accurately perform complete population-specific patient assessments, establish care priorities, and render appropriate care
- Accurately document assessments and treatments of patients using the WATRS reporting system in accordance with Wyoming State statutes
- Provide service excellence to all customers
- Operate vehicles in accordance with federal, state, and local laws and departmental policies
- Assure that ambulances and station are maintained, clean, stocked, and ready for service at all times
- Perform routine and minor vehicle and station maintenance to ensure safe and proper function
- Assist with medical treatment of patients in other departments of CCH under the direction of the MD and RN within their scope of practice as defined by the State of Wyoming, when requested during surges in patient volumes
- Demonstrate fiscal responsibility and participate in cost containment and economical utilization of supplies and equipment
- Contribute to CCH and EMS department operations through consistent involvement in duty shifts, special events, educational in-services, and committees
- Participate as preceptor of students and new personnel as needed
- Develop and maintain professional working relationships with inter- and intra-departmental personnel
- Have thorough understanding of the Standards of Excellence handbook and always abide by its expectations
- Complete all mandatory education programs within established deadlines
- Participate in departmental training program to maintain skills, knowledge, and abilities required of their scope of practice
- Uphold the CCH-EMS pillars of Accountability, Responsibility, and Ownership
- Be free from governmental sanctions involving health care and/or financial practices
- Comply with the hospital
Requirements
- High School graduate or GED equivalent and completion of an accredited paramedic education program
