Paramedic

Lifepoint Health • Sylva, NC

74d • Onsite

About The Position

Paramedic

Job Type: Full Time

$10,000 Sign-On Bonus with 2-year commitment!

Schedule: Varies (24/72 or 12-hour shifts), Rotating Weekends

Your experience matters
Harris Regional Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. As a Paramedic joining our team, you're embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team
Working as a team, respond, treat, and react quickly and calmly to emergency and non-emergency situations to provide efficient and immediate, advanced and basic life support, care to the ill and injured. Ensure that during a shift that the assigned unit is properly equipped, stocked, and prepared to respond to a single or multiple patient incidents. Ensure that during a shift that the assigned unit is properly equipped, stocked, and prepared to respond to single or multiple patient incidents. Be responsible for schedules and coverage if other personnel are not available to cover a shift. Shift work requires a mixture of days, nights, and twenty-four-hour coverage to ensure adequate coverage for the service. Harris EMS area of operation including patient's houses, infrastructures, hospitals, and long-term care facilities

The duties described herein are minimum standards and may be modified to meet the changing needs of Harris Health System at any time.

Requirements

• High School Diploma required.
• Current North Carolina Paramedic, National Registry Preferred.
• AHA, ARC, ASHI/HSI CPR
• AHA, ARC, ASHI/HSI ACLS/ALS
• AHA, ARC, ASHI/HSI PALS, or PEPP
• BTLS/PHTLS/ITLS/TECC or TCCC , acquire within 6 months, then maintain thereafter

Nice To Haves

• Associate’s degree or higher is preferred.
• Two years’ experience as a full time Paramedic desired

Responsibilities

• Working as a team, respond, treat, and react quickly and calmly to emergency and non-emergency situations to provide efficient and immediate, advanced and basic life support, care to the ill and injured.
• Ensure that during a shift that the assigned unit is properly equipped, stocked, and prepared to respond to a single or multiple patient incidents.
• Be responsible for schedules and coverage if other personnel are not available to cover a shift.
• Performing job functions utilizing the principles of “Standard Work” is an integral part of this position. Standardization of work promotes quality through simplicity and consistency therefore it is Harris’s expectation that employees are committed to learning, and to following, Standard Work.
• Participation in improvement teams and following established channels for process improvement ideas is a requirement in all positions at Harris Health System.

Benefits

• Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage for full-time and part-time employees.
• Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: High school or GED