Paramedic

Under the supervision of the Operations Captain, the Paramedic provides advanced life support emergency care to sick and injured patients. The employee in this position responds to 911 calls, renders medical assistance and transports patients to the proper medical facility. This position is distinguishable from an EMT in that the position requires further initial education, additional specialized training, greater responsibility for patient care/outcome, and greater amount of annual continuing education.

Examples of Work (Essential Functions):
- Assists patients, family members, and others confidentially and with concern and empathy
- Delivers advanced life support (ALS) care including medication administration, narcotic administration, ECG application/interpretation, invasive procedures, IV/IO, intubation, advanced airway care, thoracostomy, ventilator management, and various other pre-hospital critical care procedures
- Inspects and documents controlled substances daily or as directed
- Maintains a thorough knowledge of departmental medical guidelines, operational protocols, as well as city and county geography, mapping and routing
- Operates all two-way radio communication equipment and troubleshoots problems
- Operates emergency vehicles safely and professionally
- Operates, and can troubleshoot, all pre-hospital medical care equipment
- Performs daily vehicle, equipment, and station inventory/maintenance
- Readies all medical equipment for use each day, and following each response, restocks all equipment and supplies, as well as troubleshoot equipment problems and reports needed maintenance to EMS administrators
- Acts as a servant to the public, assists citizens in need, and communicates with all citizens, patients, family members, government employees, fellow emergency responders, and health care providers in a calm, courteous and respectful manner
- Responds to 911 calls and provides emergency medical treatment and transport
- Uses department computers and accurately completes all patient care reports, billing reports and incident reports by the end of each shift
- Maintains professional development and continuing education as required
- Performs other duties as deemed necessary or as required

Working Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is exposed less than one third of the time to conditions such moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud. This position is exposed to very stressful situations where things may seem chaotic. This position may be exposed to blood borne pathogens or bodily fluids. Attending to critically ill patients and exposure to graphic injuries, death and dying are a frequent aspect of this position. This position may be called out 24 hours a day to include evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. This position may have very long hours.

Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk; use hands to finger, grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, squat, bend, twist, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Lifting, moving, pushing or pulling up to 10 pounds does generally occur, in emergencies may be necessary to lift, move, push, or pull up to 100 pounds. Physical requirements such as moving patients weighing 200 plus pounds from the floor to a cot and then loading the patient into ambulance occurs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.

Requirements: Valid driver's license, Certified Paramedic Kansas, Hazardous Material Awareness Certificate, Bloodborne pathogens Certificate, Emergency Vehicle Operations Certificate, HIPAA Certificate, Two years related experience or High School Diploma/G.E.D. or Associate's degree or equivalent, EMS and emergency care experience, 30 hours of annual training

Salary: $59,952.38 To $77,938.09 Annually