EMS Specialist - Prehospital Services
About The Position
The UPMC Prehospital Services team is hiring an EMS Specialist to support newly acquired Trinity Hospital service areas. The Prehospital Care EMS Specialist serves as a liaison between the health system and the EMS community, supporting agency relationships, provider engagement, education, credentialing, clinical follow-up, and quality improvement. The Specialist conducts in-reach and outreach activities; supports EMS agencies and clinicians; coordinates continuing education and professional development; assists with provider credentialing, competency, and medical command requirements; facilitates clinical case follow-up and quality assurance; and connects EMS partners with hospital and health-system resources. In collaboration with EMS leadership, medical directors, clinicians, and hospital departments, the Specialist promotes high-quality prehospital care, strengthens continuity between prehospital and hospital settings, and identifies opportunities to improve EMS clinical, operational, and educational outcomes. The role coordinates UPMC Prehospital Care educational programs. Its schedule is primarily during daylight hours, with some evening and weekend hours required as needed.
Requirements
- Three years of experience in EMS or a BA degree in Emergency Medicine.
- Experience supervising medical coverage for mass-gathering events.
- Experience with EMS quality-improvement programs.
- Previous public-speaking experience.
- Driver's license.
- Paramedic or Prehospital Registered Nurse (PHRN).
- Act 34 clearance.
Nice To Haves
- Master's degree in Emergency Medical Services or a related field.
- Experience developing clinical EMS protocols, policies, and procedures.
- Experience coordinating and implementing research programs pertaining to EMS.
- Familiarity with EMS billing.
- Experience developing and coordinating community health events.
- Instructor certification in trauma life support, ACLS, BCLS, and PALS.
- Certification as a CCEMT-P.
Responsibilities
- Establish and maintain professional relationships with local government officials, EMS agencies, civil emergency services, county, regional, and state agencies, and other health care facilities.
- Develop response plans for assigned special-event coverage.
- Develop and execute action plans for providers and systems identified through the quality-improvement process.
- Organize, plan, and implement EMS recognition events.
- Implement the medical-command authorization process and standardized treatment guidelines for prehospital providers.
- Manage development of the continuous quality-improvement program for medical-command services.
- Coordinate Pennsylvania Department of Health accreditation of the assigned UPMC hospital as a Medical Command Facility.
- Develop, coordinate, and instruct continuing medical education programs for EMS providers.
- Organize, plan, perform, and manage community health events in designated areas.
- Recruit, coordinate, and manage assigned special-event medical coverage.
- Formalize agreements or contracts with EMS agencies and the transportation system in the assigned region.
- Provide expertise to the hospital disaster committee and other committees as required.
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Job Type
Full-time
