Paramedic - Finney County

Summary
This is an emergency response position with the general responsibility to provide emergency care in pre-hospital settings, provide care and transport for sick and injured patients, and promote education and awareness of emergency care procedures. The Paramedic is under the supervision of the shift supervisor and the EMS Director.

Definition and Examples of Work
80%

• Provide emergency medical care and transport patients to nearest appropriate facility
• Respond professionally to emergency calls for ambulance service to provide basic and advanced life support care to injured or sick patients.
• As authorized by current Finney County EMS medical protocols, utilize all basic and advanced abilities and techniques, including but not limited to the placement of peripheral, and intra-osseous lines, supraglottic airways, endotracheal intubations, cricothyrotomy, chest decompression, needle cricothyrotomy, fluid and drug therapy, cardiac monitoring and EKG interpretations, defibrillation, and cardioversion.
• Manage and direct all first responders at the scene of a medical emergency,
• Communicate with medical personnel regarding patient care.
• Maintain awareness for personal and patient safety including scene safety, road and work hazards, and biohazards.
• Provide medical care for in- or out- of town transfers as required.
• Complete accurate reports and forms as required; maintain proper documentation for all calls and care provided in computer.

10% 

• Train and assign work to new unit employees
• Provide training and coaching for new employees in the unit; this position is subject to on-duty training.
• Provide input on performance evaluations for EMT’s and AEMT’s as applicable.

5%

• Operate and Maintain equipment and maintain facility
• Oversee emergency vehicle operation.
• Clean and maintain assigned vehicles, equipment, and building facilities per protocol.
• Maintain inventory of supplies including medical supplies and restock as necessary.

5%

• Complete additional support duties
• Provide stand-by assistance for other agencies and departments as requested and medical assistance associated with law enforcement investigations.
• Present public education and EMS training programs, to include public relations presentations and classroom teaching responsibilities.
• Assist with class instruction.

Additional duties may be assigned as business needs require.

Latitude and Impact of Position

• This position works independently and as part of a team respond to emergency calls and provide emergency care in pre-hospital settings while transporting patients.
• This position is responsible for various work tasks that the supervisor will assign to the position with clear details and specific direction, requirements, limitations, priority levels, deadlines, overall objectives, and resources, and expected quantity/quality; amount of direction increases based on the difficulty, unusualness of assignment, or lack of clear precedents.
• This position will determine methodology, coordination with others, interpret policy, and will carry out reoccurring assignments and successive steps independently.
• The employee is expected to seek input from their immediate supervisor to develop deadlines, keep them informed of progress, and to check-in as needed to receive additional instruction for unfamiliar tasks or refer unfamiliar situations.
• If resulting work is reviewed, it is reviewed for technical accuracy and compliancy, overall feasibility, fulfillment of objectives, effect of advice and influence, and effectiveness in meeting requirement or expectations.
• Methods used in arriving at end results are not typically reviewed although review of work increases with difficulty of assignments.
• Employees often follow simple rules, detailed instructions, and established guidelines, but may also need to analyze and interpret the intent of policy and use judgement to select from different procedures.
• Guidelines may also be limited, broadly stated, or nonspecific.
• Decision making often requires discriminating between choices of learned things but may also require the interpretation of data, planning of work, and may involve largely undefined issues and elements requiring analysis of the phase or issue of each assignment.
• Situations may require analytical, interpretive, evaluative, and/or constructive thinking and for the employee to determine appropriate methodology.
• This position is responsible for supervising other employees within the department.
• Supervisory duties include the assigning or work and deletion of duties, training, and coaching, and providing input into or preparing performance evaluations.
• Successful completion of job tasks impacts the output and results of the work unit; operational and program design; internal and external organizational activities; leadership in key services; the accuracy, reliability, and acceptability of processes or services; projects of a larger scope; and the social, physical, and economic well-being of persons.
• This position does not review work.
• This position may assign work using clear and detailed instructions, or may outline the requirements, limits, objectives, resources available, quantity/quality expected, deadlines, and priority levels.

Nature of Work

• Performs a variety of simple, routine, interrelated and nonstandard tasks that may have well-defined procedures as guidelines.
• This position will select from established guidelines, may modify established guidelines within program and legislative bounds, and may develop new guidelines to achieve desired results.
• This position may make decisions or recommendations that may significantly change, interpret, or develop important policies or programs.
• Work duties may have related steps, and many involve different and unrelated processes and methods.
• Work duties may also involve conditions that require substantial analysis and situations that require the development of imaginative approaches and the origination of new techniques.
• This position works with their immediate supervisor, and other employees inside and outside their unit to obtain or clarify information and to plan and coordinate work.
• This position may also work with others outside of the organization, including the general public.
• This position may be involved in communications where the purpose is to influence, motivate, interrogate, justify, defend, negotiate with, or control persons/groups who may be fearful, skeptical, uncooperative, or dangerous and issues of considerable consequence.
• This position may sign for receipt of deliverables but has little to no additional financial responsibility.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Excellent verbal and written English language skills.
• Excellent interpersonal skills,
• Proficient in the use of computers, Microsoft Office Suite, and/or related software.
• Advanced mathematical skills: ability to calculate figures and amounts such as proportions, percentages, area, circumference, and volume.
• Ability to complete medical treatment procedures according to standards of care.
• Ability to keep information confidential.
• Ability to maintain continuing education courses.
• Ability to safely operate emergency equipment, vehicles and moving patients.
• Ability to write reports efficiently using appropriate codes.
• Ability to remain calm in stressful situations.
• Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general reference documents, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations.
• Ability to work independently without supervision and uses own judgment in determining priorities and procedures used, obtaining assistance in new or unusual situations.
• Knowledge of emergency care procedures for sick or injured patients.
• Knowledge of general maintenance procedures for vehicles and equipment.

Required Education and Experience

• High school education or G.E.D
• Successful completion of an accredited Paramedic class through an accredited two-year college or technical school
• One year related experience and/or training
• Prior field experience in emergency response procedures

Preferred Education and Experience

• Associate's degree or equivalent from an accredited two year-college or technical school in Nursing or as a Paramedic
• Two years of experience and/or training
• Prior field experience in emergency response procedures

Certification, License, Registration

• Valid driver’s license
• Kansas Paramedic certification
• Certification from Kansas Board of EMS & recertification every two years.
• Ability to obtain CEVO driving certification

Other Requirements

• Weekends and holiday shifts
• Subject to rotating shifts
• Subject to call-out shifts
• Occasional travel
• Frequent overtime
• Regular and reliable attendance onsite at work location

Access To Protected Health Information
This position shall have access to electronic and paper files containing protected health information of patients that are assessed, evaluated, or cared for by Finney County Health Department. A confidentiality agreement shall be signed by the employee as it relates to any information, regardless of the manner in which is communicated or maintained.