EMT-Intermediate (Ambulance)

San Juan Regional Medical Center; Farmington (NM); On-site; USD 38,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

San Juan Regional Medical Center is seeking a dedicated EMT to join our EMS team in Farmington, NM. You will provide pre-hospital emergency care, respond to calls, and transport patients to appropriate facilities in accordance with NM Scope of Practice.

You will maintain ambulances and equipment and complete electronic patient care reports promptly. Required qualifications include NM EMT licensure, BLS/ACLS/PALS within specified timelines, EVOC and NIMSICS training.

Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent required.
• NM Licensure as an EMT required.
• ACLS and PALS within 90 days of employment.
• BLS certification required by license.
• CEVO obtained during orientation if not available at hire.
• EVOC within 6 months of employment.
• NIMSICS 100/200/700/800 within 90 days of employment.

Responsibilities

• Provide EMT-Intermediate pre-hospital care as delineated in NM Scope of Practice.
• Respond to emergency calls, operate ambulance safely, and transport patients.
• Maintain ambulance and equipment in ready condition and stocked.
• Document electronic patient care reports (ePCR) promptly after incidents.
• Adhere to SJRMC Service Standards: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, Stewardship.
• Perform precepting in new employee orientation when assigned.
• May participate in public relations and community tours.

Skills

BLS certification

ACLS

PALS

Valid Driver's License

Driving Record clean

Ability to lift 50 kgs

Education

High School diploma or equivalent

NM Licensure as an EMT

CEVO (orientation if needed)

EVOC (within 6 months)

NIMSICS 100,200,700,800 (within 90 days)

Tools

None

Job description

Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community. The EMT continuously improves pre-hospital emergency skills, knowledge database and patient empathy; the AEMT functions to decrease suffering, improve the health of the community and save lives.

Required Behaviors

As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications

• High School diploma or equivalent
• NM Licensure as an EMT
• Meet NM (PRC) DOT physical requirements
• BLS certification as required by license
• ACLS (within 90 days of employment)
• PALS (within 90 days of employment)
• Valid Driver's License
• Driving Record free of uninsurable violations
• NIMSICS 100,200,700,800 (within 90 days of employment)
• CEVO (Obtained during orientation if not available upon hire)
• EVOC (within 6months)
• Ability to safely lift fifty (50) kgs.

Preferred Qualifications

• Within four (4) years of initial employment, will either be licensed as a paramedic or currently enrolled in an accredited paramedic program.
• Failure to achieve this standard will result in assignment to the BLS unit in place of other, less senior medics actively working toward licensure at the paramedic level.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Working knowledge of emergency medical procedures and techniques.
• Working knowledge of equipment and supplies employed in the emergency care of patients and victims of accidents.
• Working knowledge of city and county geography and location of roads and streets, hospitals and nursing homes.
• Working knowledge of radio communications equipment and procedures.
• Skill in assessing a victim's condition and applying emergency medical care appropriately.
• Ability to operate an ambulance safely under various weather conditions.
• Ability to deal with patients, their families, co-workers, other agencies and hospital staff courteously and professionally at all times.
• Responds to emergency calls as an ambulance driver or attendant, performs necessary rescue work, administers necessary emergency medical care, and transports persons to appropriate medical facilities.
• Provides EMT-Intermediate pre-hospital care as delineated in the NM Scope of Practice.
• Maintains ambulance, equipment and supplies in proper working order.
• Assure ambulance quarters are clean, and ambulance fully stocked and equipped and ready for immediate response.
• This includes controlled substances are accounted for on assigned shift and submits report daily in IOPS.
• Acts as preceptor in new employee orientation if assigned.
• Completes and submits electronic patient care report (ePCR) as soon as the incident is done, or by the end of the shift or within twenty-four (24) hours after transport and completion of call.
• May participate in public relations as assigned.
• Conducts tours of station as requested.
• Assures all assigned communication devices, including assigned phones are accounted for and readily available for use.
• May be required to pick up additional shifts outside of normal shift rotation to assure adequate staffing is achieved for 911 coverage.
• Cleans ambulances and stations daily on assigned shifts.
• Keeps current street and road patterns of the cities and county of assigned areas.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship.
• Other duties as assigned.

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions

• Ability to lift fifty (50) Kg.
• May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases.
• Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases.
• Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Exposure to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries and illness).
• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations.
• Handles emergency or crisis situations.
• Occasionally subjected to irregular hours.

As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization. Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

To learn more, visit us at http://www.sanjuanregional.com.