EMT Basic - Full Time

Pafford•Winnfield, LA

About The Position

The EMT Basic provides emergency medical care to people experiencing acute illness or injury, with the goal of reducing morbidity and mortality. The role includes recognizing medical emergencies, performing physical examinations, identifying potentially life-threatening non-cardiac emergencies, and providing appropriate emergency therapy. The EMT Basic follows company policies, written protocols, and medical orders, using judgment to apply guidance to each situation. The position involves transporting ill and injured people to medical institutions, communicating with the hospital physician on duty, and completing standardized patient-care, medical, statistical, and billing-related records. The EMT Basic operates emergency vehicles safely, maintains vehicles and equipment, assists with technical rescues, and may help extract and carry injured people across varied terrain. The role also includes maintaining records of vehicles, supplies, training, and daily work, as well as cleaning living quarters, uniforms, and issued equipment. Assignments are made in terms of shifts and general work scope. Work is performed according to provided procedures, policies, and medical orders, and is evaluated through feedback from patients, medical staff, and others. Incumbents must maintain annual state-required certification through continuing education and carry a company-issued pager or radio while on duty.

Requirements

Must possess and maintain EMT or EMT-B credentials.
Must possess and maintain CPR for the Health Care Provider certification.
Good knowledge of local street systems, addresses, and physical layout, as well as rescue equipment and emergency medical equipment used in Advanced Life Support.
Ability to perform technical medical skills accurately.
Ability to understand and effectively address the emotional and medical needs of people with injuries, acute illnesses, or psychological emergencies.
Ability to maintain a professional and objective approach to patient care and a professional attitude when representing the company.
Ability to learn new rescue and medical skills, techniques, and pre-hospital care concepts.
Ability to perform limited mechanical work involved in using, testing, and maintaining rescue and medical equipment.
Ability to direct and teach other personnel.
Ability to understand and follow oral and written instructions and orders.
Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with employees, assisting agencies, hospital personnel, and the public.
Ability to drive and operate emergency ambulance units.
Ability to write reports containing narrative and numeric information.
Must maintain a high level of academic and practical knowledge in emergency medicine and attend sufficient continuing education to maintain annual certification as required by the state of employment.
Must be able to operate emergency medical vehicles, move medical equipment, and extract injured people from varied situations.
Must be able to move across hilly, steep, rocky, rough, wet, or slippery terrain and carry or help carry a person from an injury site to a vehicle or helicopter.
Must be able to see, hear, and communicate with an injured person to perform a physical assessment.
Must wear company-issued uniforms while on duty and maintain and clean uniforms and issued equipment.
Must carry a company-issued pager or radio while on duty to receive assignment notifications.

Responsibilities

Recognize medical emergencies and make reasonable, acceptable differential diagnoses.
Perform physical examinations and identify potentially life-threatening presentations of non-cardiac emergencies.
Provide appropriate emergency therapy and address the medical and emotional needs of people with acute illness or injury.
Provide patient care in accordance with company quality standards, policies, procedures, protocols, and medical orders.
Complete standardized reports documenting the request for aid, relevant history, treatment, diagnosis, disposition, and information needed for billing.
Communicate with the hospital physician on duty about patient condition and obtain treatment orders; follow written protocols when a physician cannot be contacted.
Transport ill and injured people to medical-care institutions.
Operate emergency vehicles safely under all conditions.
Clean and maintain medical and rescue equipment, vehicles, and living quarters; perform minor vehicle maintenance.
Complete patient statistics and medical information forms and maintain records of vehicles, supplies, training, and daily work.
Assist with technical rescues and remove or carry victims from varied terrain and circumstances to transportation, then attend to them during transport to the hospital.
Maintain issued uniforms and equipment, and carry a company-issued pager or radio while on duty.
Attend continuing education classes, courses, and seminars as needed to maintain annual state certification.
Perform other related duties as assigned.