Critical Care Paramedic - Ground Transport Team

Orlando Health; Orlando (FL); On-site; USD 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Orlando Health seeks a Critical Care Paramedic for their Ground Transport Team. In this role, you will provide critical care during patient transport between facilities, ensuring the highest care standards. This position offers full-time employment with comprehensive benefits including professional development programs, starting on day one.

Benefits

Career-growing education programs

Well-being services for you and your family

Flexible scheduling options

Qualifications

• Three years of experience in a prehospital or critical care transport setting preferred.
• Maintains certification as a Paramedic in Florida.
• AHA certifications in BLS, ACLS, PALS are required.

Responsibilities

• Provide individualized patient care and ensure documentation is accurate.
• Demonstrate critical care skills, including airway management and IV access.
• Collaborate with healthcare team members and prioritize patient safety.

Skills

Patient assessment

Drug administration

Critical care skills

Leadership

Education

Graduate of an approved paramedic program

Formal Critical Care Paramedic training program

Job description

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Position Summary

The Critical Care Ground Transport Team provides swift and seamless transportation of transfers for our patients between Orlando Health facilities. Umbrellaed under the Orlando Health Air Care Team, Orlando Health partnered with Air Methods to bring this team together. With 40 years of service on the flight side, the Critical Care Ground Transport team aims to bring the same quality of care to Orlando Health patients and the community. In this role you will be working 12 hour shifts.

As hospitals have expanded, along with more freestanding emergency departments and as the city of Orlando and its surrounding areas grow, there is an increased need to transfer patients who are sick or critically ill, efficiently, safely and urgently. The Critical Care Ground Transport team allows us to take the sickest of patients, no matter where they are and get them exactly where they need to be, when they need to be there while providing seamless care in between. Our clinical providers riding alongside patients in the ambulances are going to provide the same level of care that our flight medic nurses provide, which is essentially in delivering the highest levels of critical care for transport available in the state of Florida. This is just another way that Orlando Health is committed to providing the best patient care possible.

Our Critical Care Ground Transport Team is the ultimate training ground if you are aspiring to join our elite Air Care Team.

Orlando Health is committed to providing you with benefits that go beyond the expected, with career-growing FREE education programs and well-being services to support you and your family through every stage of life. We begin your benefits on day one and offer flexibility wherever possible so that you can be present for your passions. “Orlando Health Is Your Best Place to Work” is not just something we say, it’s our promise to you.

Responsibilities

Essential Functions

• Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patient being treated/transported.
• Demonstrates knowledge of principles of growth and development over the lifespan, assesses data reflective of the patient’s status,
  
  

and interprets necessary information to identify patient requirements relative to age-specific needs.

• Prescribes, delegates, coordinates, and documents patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner, including but
  
  

not limited to patient assessment, education, medication administration, treatments, and patient safety.

• Provides and documents individualized patient care, including patient and personal safety, patient assessments in collaboration with
  
  

all other healthcare providers, patient reassessments, maintenance of airway patency, airway intervention, IV access, ECG

interpretations, dysrhythmia recognition, drug administration, and all other invasive or non-invasive treatments/therapies.

• Obtains and maintains proficiency with electronic charting and documentation systems.
• Demonstrates competency in paramedic and critical care skills. Uses patient care/unit equipment as defined by manufacturer and
  
  

unit-specific competencies. Adheresto protocols and standards of care as defined and/or assigned by the program Medical Director.

• Prioritizes patient care in an ongoing manner in accordance with Standards of Care and Practice.
• Effectively multitasks, demonstrates effective problem-solving techniques, and conflict resolution strategies.
• Exhibits effective leadership qualities and delegates tasks and duties to other healthcare team members according to patient needs.
• Maintains situational awareness of the environment, including scene safety, patient condition, operational needs. Considers the
  
  

Capabilities, Qualifications, And Limitations Of Collaborating Team Members

• Safely operates in and around emergency vehicles and assists with vehicle operations, when applicable.
• Communicates appropriate information regarding patient condition or concerns to other healthcare team members.
  
  

Qualifications

Education/Training

• Graduate of an approved paramedic program.
• Formal Critical Care Paramedic training program (UMBC CCEMT-P; UF-CCP, similar) preferred.
  
  

Licensure/Certification

• Maintains certification as a Paramedic (PMD) in the State of Florida.
• Maintains current American Heart Association (AHA) certifications in BLS/Healthcare, ACLS, and PALS.
• Maintains current certification in Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) or International Trauma Life Support (ITLS).
• Obtains and maintains International Board of Specialty Certifications Critical Care Paramedic (CCP-C) or Flight Paramedic (FP-C)
  
  

certification within six (6) months of hire.

Experience

• Three (3) years minimum of experience working in a prehospital, hospital, or non-transport paramedic position. (911 or prior interfacility transport experience; critical care transport experience preferred)
• Experience with an emergency EMS transport agency is preferred.
• Experience in a Critical Care ground or air transport system is preferred

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Health Care Provider

• Industries

  Hospitals and Health Care

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