AEMT (Elizabethville/Lykens)

UPMC; Pennsylvania; Ibrido; USD 42.000 - 62.000; Tempo pieno

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UPMC is hiring a Full-Time AEMT to support Elizabethville/Lykens. Schedule: Dayshift, 7am-7pm. Requires weekend and holiday rotation. Responsibilities include safe patient transport, equipment checks, and documentation, with a focus on patient care and safety in high-stress settings.

This role collaborates with PHRN and Paramedic teams, participates in quality improvement, and upholds safety policies across transport operations within the STAT MedEvac system.

Competenze

• EMT level responsibilities include patient handling and safe transport operations.
• Ability to work in high-stress environments and maintain patient confidentiality.
• Adhere to safety, health, and drug/alcohol policies at all times.

Mansioni

• Maintains clean patient environment and crew quarters.
• Operates patient-laden stretcher with proper discipline.
• Ensures safe loading/unloading and stretcher adjustments.
• Demonstrates rapport with customers and maintains professional demeanor.
• Reports injuries and documents appropriately to a supervisor.
• Maintains fitness for duty and completes required screenings.
• Participates in a quality improvement program.
• Ensures safe operation of transport vehicle and patient safety around CEM vehicles.
• Uses safety channels to report concerns and uses PPE as needed.
• Maintains vehicle operation including fuel, fluids, lights, sirens, radio, and phone.
• Represents UPMC and STAT MedEvac with outreach activities.
• Collaborates with PHRN and Paramedic per protocols and resources.
• Adheres to the drug and alcohol policy and scheduling rules.
• Provides patient care in various environments using available resources.

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Overview

UPMC is hiring a Full-Time AEMT to support Elizabethville/Lykens.

Schedule: Dayshift, 7am-7pm

Requires weekend and holiday rotation

Responsibilities

• Maintains clean patient environment as well as crew quarters
• Ensures safe operation of patient-laden stretcher employing appropriate stretcher discipline at all times.
• Maintains safe loading, unloading, adjustment of head of stretcher, and stretcher movement.
• Reflects a positive attitude to the customer in a high-stress environment at all times, with a clear understanding of who the customer is.
• Reports injuries and completes the appropriate documentation, no matter how minor, to a supervisor in a timely manner.
• Maintains fitness for duty by adhering to all employee health requirements, including maximum weight, hearing conservation program, and required medical screenings.

• Participates constructively in the peer-review driven quality improvement program.

• Responsible for the safe operation of the transport vehicle and ensures a safe environment for patient and other healthcare workers in and around CEM vehicles.

• Utilizes appropriate safety channels to report safety concerns and uses tools available to enhance a safe work environment.

• Selects and uses personal protective equipment appropriate to the level of the anticipated hazard.

• Maintains and ensures adequate vehicle operation including proper fuel, fluid levels, lights, sirens, radio, cellular phone functioning.

• 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.

• Ensures patient and family confidentiality and dignity at all times.

• Collects and promptly processes demographic, medical necessity, and other necessary billing information.
• Participates in scheduled and unscheduled outreach activities, representing the UPMC and STAT MedEvac system.
• Collaborates with PHRN and Paramedic to care for critically ill or injured patients in adherence with established protocols and standards of care; assessing online medical command or other resources when appropriate.
• 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.

• Demonstrates skills, competencies, and judgment necessary to provide patient care in any environment; using educational resources that are required or made available.

• Adheres to rules for scheduling, including schedule requests, minimum time, and availability.