AirCare - EMT BLS - Ground Transport

Pay Range:

What you'll do:

Functions as a member of the transport team and is responsible for the care of ill and injured patients, safe and efficient operation of the vehicle including maintaining the vehicles in mission ready status. Provides patient care while promoting safety and efficiency. Performs under the direct supervision of the Medical Control Physician, either by continuous radio contact or direct consultation. Maintains necessary certifications/licensures, skills, continuing education and complete competency checks as required.

 We’re Looking For:

• High school diploma or equivalency
• North Carolina EMT certification required
• 1 year experience driving emergency vehicles preferred
• BLS required
• Advocate Health approved driving course to be completed within 90 days of hire
• Must have valid driver's license and qualify as insurable by Advocate Health insurance carrier requirements for driving AirCare vehicles
• Previous transport or pre-hospital experience preferred

Certification / License

• National Registry EMT preferred

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumer’s health or the situation.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan, coordinates care delivery, and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Practices ethically
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers
• Promotes shared governance, or facility decision making activities, developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
• Attains knowledge and competence that reflects the current EMT practice.
• Integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality EMT practice.
• Communicate effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
• Evaluates own EMT practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines, relevant statutes, rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan and provide EMT services that are safe, effective, and financially responsible.
• Participates in committees, shared governance, or other facility decision making activities.
• Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner
• Models the mission, vision, values, standards of excellence and goals of the Atrium health system.
• Supports and contributes to the patient centered care philosophy by understanding that every teammate is a caregiver whose role is to meet the needs of the patient.
• Recognize and treat any medical condition with appropriate techniques, equipment, and knowledge of all State and Department Polices and Protocols including (BIAD) Blind Insertion Airway Device and medications approved by NCOEMS and the Medical Director.
• Ensures that the ambulance is clean, washed, and kept in a neat and orderly condition each shift.
• Determines that the vehicle is in proper mechanical condition by utilizing daily check-off sheets and reporting any known issues.
• Ensures that the ambulance patient care area is clean, restocked, equipment in working order, and kept in a neat and orderly condition at the beginning of each shift and when necessary to maintain a mission ready status when serving in a patient care role.
• Must be capable of handling equipment challenges and failures without support of internal hospital resources.
• Obtains necessary signatures and paperwork for each transport
• Thoroughly documents medical care and treatments of patients in the EHR.
• Must maintain annual compliance in education related to specialty area and/or primary base location outside of typical EMT practice.
  • Simulation lab
  • Advanced Skills Practice
  • Certified Emergency Vehicle Operations
  • Sleep Deprivation/Just Culture/Stress Management
  • Transport Vehicle Safety Training – Ambulance.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Duties require working and transporting patients in ambulances. Driving vehicles, including ambulances in all weather conditions. Required to drive to and work at multiple locations across NC based on staffing needs.
• Must not have any physical, emotional, or mental impairment to prevent them from riding, driving, or administering patient care in transport vehicles. This work area has cramped space and can be poorly lit. Noise levels are moderate as associated with working in and around emergency vehicles. Requires handling of patients that may have infectious disease, possible exposure to unpleasant conditions and / or handling of contaminated materials or patients.
• Heavy lifting required, with the assistance of a partner, to load patients, unload patients, and carry equipment. Good physical stamina and endurance are necessary to perform duties. Teammates must maintain fitness standards in accordance with the fitness of duty policy.
• Must have an intact sense of sight, hearing, smell, and touch. Finger dexterity, good motor, and eye-hand coordination required. Requires good personal hygiene and appropriate conduct. Must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills to include, but not limited to speaking English in good, understandable terms.
• Additional department specific physical requirements may be identified for unique responsibilities within the department by the Director or Manager.
• Works in an autonomous environment that requires patient management and critical decision-making based upon dynamic patient status with limited resources and support.

Our Commitment to You:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs, competitive compensation, generous retirement offerings, programs that invest in your career development and so much more – so you can live fully at and away from work, including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications, skills, relevant experience, and/or training

• Premium pay such as shift, on call, and more based on a teammate's job

• Incentive pay for select positions

• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs

• Health and welfare benefits such as medical, dental, vision, life, and Short- and Long-Term Disability

• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses

• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave

• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs

• Educational Assistance Program

Note: Eligibility for programs listed above may depend on your FTE or status (e.g., full-time, part-time, per diem, temporary, etc.); please ask a Recruiter for more information during an interview.