Paramedic - Full-time, Days

BHS•Corbin, KY

About The Position

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. Baptist Health is looking for a full-time (36 hours/week), day shift Paramedic to join our EMS team at Baptist Health Corbin! 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.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalency required.
Active Paramedic license through the Kentucky Board of EMS at time of consideration.
BLS for Healthcare Provider issued by AHA or ARC.
PALS & ACLS certifications.
Other certifications and specialty training as required by the Kentucky Board of EMS.
Valid driver's license.

Responsibilities

Provides patient care within the medical director approved department protocols and state scope of practice.
Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately.
Thoroughly and accurately completes all required documentation and patient care reports within required timeframe.
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.
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.