Paramedic - Full-time, 36 hours (3 days) per Week, Nights

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; New Albany (IN); On-site; USD 52,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health Floyd in New Albany, IN is seeking a full-time Paramedic for night shifts (36 hours/week) to join our EMS transport team. You will provide advanced life support and direct patient care across all ages under medical direction.

The role requires Indiana IDHS Paramedic license, BLS, PALS and ACLS, and a valid driver's license. You will ensure documentation, vehicle readiness, and coordination of transport priorities while maintaining high standards of care.

Qualifications

• High school diploma or equivalent.
• Active Paramedic license through the Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS).
• BLS certification.
• PALS & ACLS certifications issued by AHA or ARC.
• Other certifications and specialty training as required by IDHS.
• Valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

• Provides patient care within the medical director approved department protocols and state scope of practice.
• Initiate’s action to alleviate patient’s stress and discomfort.
• Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately.
• Thoroughly and accurately completes all required documentation and patient care reports within required timeframe for each patient encounter.
• Provides care appropriate to the emergency population and maintains the environment of care.
• Performs ambulance transportation services within the scope of practice of a Paramedic.
• Sets priorities for the transport of multiple patients.
• Assures resources and coordinates plan of delivery.
• Organizes workload so there is effective utilization of time and resources.
• Accurately completes required documentation and patient care reports within required timeframe.
• Maintains knowledge and familiarity with each vehicle in fleet in order to operate smooth and safely.
• Assures ambulance is clean, stocked and response ready at the beginning and end of every shift as well as prior to each and every request for service.
• Ensures proper vehicle maintenance and equipment readiness as well as proper ALS gear readiness and utilization.

Education

Paramedic license (IDHS)

BLS certification

PALS & ACLS (AHA/ARC)

Valid driver's license

Job description

Summary

Provides advanced life support care to patients who are ill and/or injured. Administers direct care to the patient of all age groups under the direction of an emergency medical physician, emergency physician’s assistant, and emergency advanced registered nurse practitioner or utilizes approved EMS protocols if transporting a patient. Ensures adherence to hospital and department policies as well as paramedic scope of practice.

Job Description

Baptist Health is looking for Paramedic, full-time, 36 hours (3 days) per week, night shift to join our EMS transport team at Baptist Health Floyd, 1850 State St, New Albany, IN!

Duties and Responsibilities

• Provides patient care within the medical director approved department protocols and state scope of practice.
• Initiate’s action to alleviate patient’s stress and discomfort.
• Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately.
• Thoroughly and accurately completes all required documentation and patient care reports within required timeframe for each patient encounter.
• Provides care appropriate to the emergency population and maintains the environment of care.
• Performs ambulance transportation services within the scope of practice of a Paramedic.
• Sets priorities for the transport of multiple patients.
• Assures resources and coordinates plan of delivery.
• Organizes workload so there is effective utilization of time and resources.
• Accurately completes required documentation and patient care reports within required timeframe.
• Maintains knowledge and familiarity with each vehicle in fleet in order to operate smooth and safely.
• Assures ambulance is clean, stocked and response ready at the beginning and end of every shift as well as prior to each and every request for service.
• Ensures proper vehicle maintenance and equipment readiness as well as proper ALS gear readiness and utilization.

Minimum Requirements

• High school diploma or equivalency required.
• Active Paramedic license through the Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS).
• BLS certification.
• PALS & ACLS certifications issued by AHA or ARC.
• Other certifications and specialty training as required by the Indiana Department of Homeland Security (IDHS).
• Valid driver's license.

EEO Statement

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law.

Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug-free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post offer, pre-employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMATION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES

Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll-free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

About Baptist Health

Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics. Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40-bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama. Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states. Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence. Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.