Paramedic SUS - Full-time

UPMC Williamsport - Susquehanna Regional EMS is seeking a full-time Paramedic. This exciting opportunity offers rotating shifts and includes participation in a weekend and holiday rotation.

UPMC offers a premier benefits package, designed to care for your physical, emotional, and financial well-being, paired with endless opportunities for career advancement and educational growth.

If you want to join an amazing team of life changers, look no further! Apply today and find out where your career can take you.

Qualified full-time paramedics are eligible for a $7,000 sign-on bonus!

A two-year work commitment is required.

*Applicants will be placed in the appropriate job title and salary at the time of hire based on their education, experience, and certifications.

Paramedic Salary Range: $21.07 - $31.63

Senior Professional Paramedic: $22.24 - $33.35

Responsibilities:

• Maintain vehicles and medical and communication equipment and replenish first aid equipment and supplies. Maintain records and checklists as required.
• Assess the nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures. Administer basic and advanced life support to patients at the scene, en route to the hospital or inter-facility transports, and in a pre-hospital setting following federal, state, and local laws, regulations, and standards. In the absence of medical command access use knowledge, skill, experience, and judgment for initiating patient care.
• Perform proper procedures in a timely and appropriate manner to prevent further harm to the patient using basic and advanced life support equipment and devices.
• Communicate with Medical Command personnel to provide information about the situation, arrange reception of victims, provide patients' vital statistics and medical history, or receive instructions for further treatment.
• Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures under a physician's direction.
• Assess and evaluate patients exposed to or contaminated with a hazardous substance and provide appropriate patient care, following protocols and department policies.
• Observe, record, and report to the physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
• Perform emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as stomach suction, airway management, or heart monitoring, as well as other advanced-level patient care modalities approved by the state for use in the Prehospital environment and in ambulance.
• Provide advanced life support to critically ill or injured patients in adherence to established protocols and standards of care; assess online medical command or other resources when appropriate. Participates in developing and completing research projects.
• Demonstrates competency related to pharmacological interventions.
• Performs daily equipment checks (vehicle, medications)
• Participates in shift reports from off-going crew
• Ensures safe operation of patient-laden stretcher employing appropriate stretcher discipline at all times. Maintains safe loading, unloading, adjustment of the head of the stretcher, and stretcher movement.
• Reports for work well rested, and fit for duty. Adhering to the drug and alcohol policy at all times. including prescription and/or over-the-counter medicine use.
• Completes all official documentation in a timely manner such as payroll, expense reports, orientation forms, etc.
• Demonstrates the ability to establish a rapport with customers; including the ability to create and sustain a positive relationship; regardless of circumstances, environment, or patient presentation.
• Responds promptly and efficiently to all requests for service.
• Maintains clean patient environment as well as crew quarters
• Maintains fitness for duty by adhering to all employee health requirements. Reports injuries and completes the appropriate documentation, no matter how minor, to a supervisor promptly.
• Demonstrates skills, competencies, and judgment necessary to provide patient care in any environment; using educational resources that are required or made available.

Qualifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• 1 year of EMS pre-hospital experience at the advanced life support provider level preferred
• Must be able to lift, carry, push, and/or pull weight up to 100 pounds.
• Ability to work outdoors in all weather conditions required.
• Must be eligible to receive medical command authorization by the Medical Director, have reliable transportation, and be willing to travel to any base site as assigned.
• Must be able to successfully complete the prescribed orientation program, including classroom,
• Must work productively and effectively within a complex environment, and handle multiple/changing priorities, and specialized equipment.

Licensure, Certifications, and Clearances:

• Certified Paramedic in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania required.
• Valid Driver's License required.
• PA Dept of Health recognized Emergency Vehicle Operator Course (EVOC) or Emerg Vehicle Driver (EVD) is required
• CPR is required based on AHA standards that include both a didactic and skills demonstration component within 30 days of hire
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
• Driver's License
• Emergency Vehicle Operator
• Paramedic
• Act 31 Child Abuse Reporting with renewal
• Act 33 with renewal
• Act 34 with renewal
• Act 73 FBI Clearance with renewal

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran

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