Paramedic-Full Time

Effingham County, GA Board of Commissioners; Springfield (GA); On-site; USD 42,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Effingham County, GA Board of Commissioners seeks a Paramedic for full-time prehospital emergency services in Georgia. The role provides advanced assessment, treatment, and transportation under medical direction and guidelines, with clinical direction to staff and emphasis on patient care and documentation.

Required: Georgia Paramedic license, BLS/CPR, ACLS, and a valid driver’s license; HS diploma or GED and Paramedic training completion. No EMS experience required by the posting.

Qualifications

• Education: High school diploma or GED and completion of a Paramedic program.
• Licenses: Georgia Paramedic license; BLS/CPR; ACLS; valid driver’s license.
• Experience: No EMS experience required by the source.

Responsibilities

• Responds to emergency and non-emergency medical requests.
• Performs advanced life-support within scope and guidelines.
• Establishes treatment priorities and coordinates care with medical direction.
• Determines patient destination and resources per procedures.
• Directs patient-care activities as the clinician of record.
• Transports patients using appropriate equipment and personnel.
• Completes ePCR and transfer documentation accurately.
• Maintains medication security, counts, and storage.
• Inspects and restocks vehicles and equipment.

Skills

Advanced prehospital assessment

Clinical direction

Patient transport & handling

Medical direction coordination

Education

High school diploma or GED

Georgia Paramedic license

BLS/CPR certification

ACLS certification

Tools

ePCR

Job description

Position Summary
Provides advanced prehospital emergency assessment, treatment, and transportation within the employee’s current Georgia Paramedic license, authorized scope of practice, medical direction, approved clinical guidelines,

Paramedic - Full time
Position Summary
Provides advanced prehospital emergency assessment, treatment, and transportation within the employee’s current Georgia Paramedic license, authorized scope of practice, medical direction, approved clinical guidelines, and departmental procedures. The Paramedic may serve as the clinician responsible for patient care and provide clinical direction to participating personnel without acquiring personnel‑management authority.

Essential Functions

• Responds to emergency and non-emergency requests for medical assistance and other assigned incidents.
• Performs comprehensive assessment and monitoring and provides basic and advanced life-support care within the Paramedic scope of practice, medical direction, and approved clinical guidelines.
• Establishes clinical priorities, selects authorized treatment strategies, evaluates response, and obtains medical-control consultation or additional resources when required.
• Determines or coordinates patient destination and specialty-resource needs under approved destination procedures, regional requirements, and medical direction.
• Directs patient‑care activity when serving as the responsible clinician, consistent with each participant’s role, license, scope, and training.
• Moves and transports patients using trained techniques, available personnel, and approved patient‑handling equipment.
• Operates ambulances and assigned vehicles under applicable law, County driver requirements, training, and departmental procedure.
• Completes accurate, timely, authenticated ePCR and transfer-of-care documentation.
• Maintains assigned medication security, counts, storage, use, waste, replacement, expiration, discrepancy, and documentation controls; promptly reports discrepancies through approved channels.
• Inspects, restocks, cleans, disinfects, and decontaminates vehicles, medical equipment, safety equipment, supplies, and work areas under approved procedures.

Additional Responsibilities

• Participates in continuing education, competency activities, meetings, community education, training, and departmental events.
• Maintains assigned stations, vehicles, equipment, medication records, and operational documentation.
• Performs other related duties consistent with the position’s purpose, classification, licensure, delegated authority, and applicable wage-and-hour rules.

Supervisory Responsibilities
This position has no formal administrative or personnel-management responsibilities solely by virtue of the Paramedic classification. Clinical direction during patient care does not include independent authority to hire, discipline, evaluate, approve leave or payroll, or make final employment decisions.

Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Knowledge of advanced prehospital assessment and treatment, medication administration and accountability, medical direction, clinical guidelines, destination procedures, patient movement, documentation, infection control, scene safety, and ambulance operations.
• Ability to integrate assessment and diagnostic information, establish treatment priorities, reassess patients, and recognize when consultation or additional resources are required.
• Ability to direct patient‑care activity while respecting each participant’s authorized role and scope.
• Ability to secure medications and document counts, administration, waste, replacement, expiration, and discrepancies accurately.
• Ability to operate ePCR, communications, monitoring, medication‑delivery, patient‑moving, navigation, and other assigned systems.
• Ability to protect patient information and communicate professionally during stressful or hazardous conditions.

Minimum Qualifications
Education
High school diploma or recognized equivalent and successful completion of an approved Paramedic education program.

Experience
No prior EMS experience is required by the submitted source.

Equivalent Combination
An equivalent combination of education, training, and experience that provides the required knowledge and abilities may be considered, subject to Human Resource Services review; required professional licenses and certifications may not be substituted.

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous EMS experience.

Required Licenses And Certifications
Credential
Required By
Maintenance Requirement
Georgia Paramedic license
At appointment
Maintain current, unrestricted status and comply with applicable Georgia EMS requirements.
BLS/CPR certification recognized by the Department
At appointment
Maintain current status.
Advanced Cardiac Life Support certification recognized by the Department
At appointment
Maintain current status.
Valid driver's license
Before operating a County vehicle
Maintain a valid license and satisfy County driver requirements.

Work Schedule and Availability
Assigned EMS shift schedule, including nights, weekends, holidays, extended incidents, training, and approved overtime or call-back. FLSA status is pending HR review; unless and until a lawful exemption is established, all working time must be recorded and compensated.

Physical And Environmental Requirements
The following demands relate to the essential functions and may be performed with or without reasonable accommodation.

Requirement
Frequency
Job-Related Context
Stand and walk, including on uneven terrain
Frequently
Reach patients, vehicles, equipment, and incident locations.
Bend, stoop, kneel, crouch, reach, climb, and balance
Frequently
Assess, treat, access, and move patients in vehicles, structures, and difficult locations.
Push, pull, lift, carry, and move patients and equipment
Frequently; substantial exertion may be required
Use available personnel, stretchers, lifting devices, and approved patient‑handling equipment. The Department must validate any numerical lifting standard.
Sit and operate an ambulance or assigned vehicle
Frequently
Respond to and transport from incidents after required driver authorization and training.
Read monitors, medication labels, records, maps, warning indicators, and electronic systems; hear and exchange communications
Frequently
Assess patients, provide authorized care, navigate, recognize hazards, and communicate during routine and emergency operations, with or without reasonable accommodation.

Work Environment
Work occurs in ambulances, stations, healthcare facilities, roadways, residences, public places, and incident scenes. It may involve weather extremes, traffic, noise, poor lighting, unstable terrain, confined areas, violence, bodily fluids, infectious disease, smoke, chemicals, moving equipment, and other emergency hazards. Employees must use assigned protective equipment and follow exposure‑control, scene‑safety, and decontamination procedures.

Disclaimer
Effingham County will provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable performance of the essential functions of the position, consistent with applicable law. This job description summarizes the position's primary duties and requirements. It is not an exhaustive list of every task, responsibility, or qualification. Duties may be modified or assigned based on operational needs, subject to applicable law and County policy.

Employment Relationship
This job description is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by the employee assigned to this position. It is not an employment contract and does not create a guarantee of employment for any specific duration. Employment with Effingham County is at will and may be terminated by either the employee or the County at any time, with or without cause or notice, subject to applicable federal or state law, County ordinances, personnel policies, and any other legally binding employment protections.