Paramedic

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 Paramedic continuously improves pre-hospital emergency skills, knowledge database and patient empathy; 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:
• New Mexico EMT-Paramedic Licensure
• Valid NM Drivers License
• Driving Record free of un-insurable violations
• Must meet the requirements for obtaining and maintaining life support certifications as outlined in the Life Support Certification policy
• Meet NM DOT physical requirements
• Must obtain ICS 100,200,700,800 within the first sixty (60) days of employment

Preferred Qualifications:
• Four (4) years of EMT experience
• Completion of college level A&P
• NM State Special Skills Endorsement for Rapid Sequence Induction
• AHA ACLS, PALS, NRP
• National Registry Certification
• ICS 100,200,700,800

Duties and Responsibilities:
• Working knowledge of emergency medical procedures and techniques at their respective certification level
• Knowledge and utilization of NIMS guidelines
• 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
• 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
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees
• Responds to emergency calls as an ambulance crew member, performs necessary rescue work, administers necessary emergency medical care, and transports persons to appropriate medical facilities
• Provides paramedic level pre-hospital care as delineated in the NM Scope of Practice
• Maintains ambulance, equipment, and supplies in proper working order
• Participates in a continuous training program in technical medical work and in ambulance service and operation
• Acts as preceptor in new employee orientation
• Gives talks on emergency medical services at schools
• Conducts tours of station as requested
• Cleans ambulances and stations
• Studies street and road patterns of the cities and county
• 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 bloodborne diseases
• Contact with patients under 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
• Occasional pressure due to multiple calls and injuries
• Requires judgment/action which could result in death of a patient