Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) - Finney County

ummary
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. This technician is under the supervision of the Paramedic Shift Supervisor and/or Assistant EMS Director and 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 life support care to injured or sick patients.
•  Administers prescribed first-aid treatment at site of emergency, or in specially equipped vehicle, performing such activities as authorized in Finney County EMS medical protocols.
• 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.

15%

• 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.
• Mentor students at current level or below.
• 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 compliance, 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.
• This position may also analyze results and recommend change.
• 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.
• Successful completion of job tasks impacts the output and results of the work unit; operational and program design; internal and external organizational activities; the accuracy, reliability, and acceptability of processes or services; projects of a larger scope; and the social, physical, and economic well-being of persons.

Nature of Work

• Performs a variety of interrelated and nonstandard tasks that 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• Kansas EMT certification

Preferred Education and Experience

• One to three years related experience and/or training
• Prior field experience in emergency response procedures

Certification, License, Registration

• Valid driver’s license
• Kansas EMT certification – current & valid
• Certification from Kansas Board of EMS & recertification every 2 years.
• Kansas Paramedic certification: must be acquired within 4 years of employment – Not applicable for EMS Reserve members or AEMT if AEMT position is open and available.
• 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.