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| Aspect | Aviation Paramedic | Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) |
|---|---|---|
| Certifications | Paramedic license, advanced life support (ALS) certification | Basic life support (BLS) certification, EMT license |
| Work Environment | Helicopter or fixed-wing air medical transport, often in emergency scenes | Ground ambulance, emergency scenes, hospitals |
| Employer & Industry | Air medical services, hospitals, emergency response teams | Ambulance services, fire departments, hospitals |
While both Aviation Paramedics and EMTs provide emergency medical care, Aviation Paramedics have advanced training, certifications, and typically work in air medical transport environments. EMTs focus on basic life support and ground emergency response. The roles differ mainly in scope of practice, work setting, and required credentials, with Aviation Paramedics providing more advanced pre-hospital care during air transport.
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Part-time
Posted 7 days ago
Pafford EMS rating
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Based on 35 frontline employees who took The Breakroom Quiz
775th of 889 rated healthcare providers
Job description
Job Title: Flight Paramedic (Part Time)
Work Location: Arkadelphia, AR
Division/Department: Air Med
The Flight Paramedic is a licensed paramedic and critical care transport clinician who provides safe, autonomous, evidence-based care to critically ill or injured patients across the lifespan. As part of an interdisciplinary transport team, the Flight Paramedic assesses, stabilizes, treats, monitors, and transports patients by rotor-wing aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft when assigned, and ground critical care ambulance. Care is provided within applicable law, paramedic licensure, Pafford Medical Services, Inc. policies and clinical guidelines, the program's scope of care, and medical direction.
Essential Functions
Clinical Care
Transport Operations and Safety
Documentation, Quality, and Readiness
Education and Professional Practice
Minimum Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Physical Requirements
NOTE: This description identifies the general nature and essential functions of the position and is not an exhaustive list of every duty. Pafford Medical Services, Inc. may assign other duties consistent with the employee's qualifications and operational needs. Reasonable
Work Location: Arkadelphia, AR
Division/Department: Air Med
The Flight Paramedic is a licensed paramedic and critical care transport clinician who provides safe, autonomous, evidence-based care to critically ill or injured patients across the lifespan. As part of an interdisciplinary transport team, the Flight Paramedic assesses, stabilizes, treats, monitors, and transports patients by rotor-wing aircraft, fixed-wing aircraft when assigned, and ground critical care ambulance. Care is provided within applicable law, paramedic licensure, Pafford Medical Services, Inc. policies and clinical guidelines, the program's scope of care, and medical direction.
Essential Functions
Clinical Care
- Review transport requests and available records; receive a complete handoff; independently assess the patient; identify transport risks; and develop an individualized plan of care.
- Stabilize, prepare, and safely transport adult, pediatric, neonatal, obstetric, medical, and trauma patients consistent with the program's approved scope of care.
- Continuously monitor the patient, recognize deterioration, anticipate complications, and initiate timely interventions or medical control consultation as required.
- Manage advanced airways and mechanical ventilation, hemodynamic monitoring, infusion therapy, vasoactive and sedative medications, blood products, drains, tubes, and other authorized critical care therapies.
- Maintain continuity of care from acceptance through bedside handoff and provide clear, compassionate communication to patients, families, and referring and receiving teams.
Transport Operations and Safety
- Participate in mission briefings, risk assessment, crew resource management, and debriefing; promptly identify and communicate safety concerns.
- Follow aviation and ground safety procedures, instructions of the pilot in command, applicable FAA requirements, and program policies. This clinical role does not exercise aviation operational control.
- Perform equipment, medication, oxygen, battery, and supply checks; secure the patient and equipment; and maintain mission readiness.
- Coordinate effectively with pilots, communications personnel, EMS, fire and law enforcement agencies, referring and receiving facilities, and specialty teams.
- Complete missions initiated during the assigned shift when clinically and operationally appropriate, recognizing that mission completion may extend beyond scheduled hours and remains subject to fatigue-management and safety requirements.
Documentation, Quality, and Readiness
- Complete accurate and timely patient care records, medication and controlled-substance documentation, equipment records, and required operational reports.
- Participate in quality management, case review, peer review, safety reporting, performance improvement, clinical investigation, and research activities as assigned.
- Inspect, clean, restock, and maintain equipment, medications, supplies, and transport work areas; promptly report deficiencies and remove unsafe equipment from service.
- Protect patient privacy and comply with documentation, billing, regulatory, and accreditation requirements.
- Participate in education, simulation, community outreach, committees, and other activities supporting clinical quality, safety, and service readiness.
Education and Professional Practice
- Successfully complete initial orientation, clinical validation, transport safety training, and competency requirements before independent assignment.
- Maintain required licenses, certifications, continuing education, clinical currency, skills validation, and annual competencies for assigned patient populations and interventions.
- Demonstrate sound judgment, professional conduct, teamwork, cultural sensitivity, and respectful communication in routine and high-stress situations.
- Serve as a clinical resource or preceptor when qualified and assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- Current, unrestricted paramedic license or certification in each state required for assignment and patient transport. Additional state licensure/certification must be obtained within the timeframe established by Pafford Medical Services, Inc.
- At least three years and a minimum of 4,000 hours of recent ALS experience with progressively increasing responsibility, including critical care transport, high-acuity EMS, emergency department, intensive care transport, or other experience relevant to the program's scope of care.
- Current American Heart Association BLS and ACLS credentials.
- Current PALS, or PEPP credential appropriate to the program's pediatric scope of care.
- Current NRP credential when assigned to high-risk obstetric or neonatal patients.
- Current trauma education appropriate to the role and program scope, such as ITLS, PHTLS, or an approved equivalent.
- Successful completion of pre-employment screening, clinical knowledge and skills evaluation, orientation, and competency validation.
- FP-C or CCP-C certification must be obtained and maintained within two years of employment in the Flight Paramedic role.
- Valid driver's license and ability to meet company vehicle-operation requirements when driving is assigned.
Preferred Qualifications
- Associate or Bachelor's degree in Paramedicine, EMS, Emergency Management, Healthcare Administration, or related field.
- FP-C, CCP-C, CCP, TPATC, CCEMTP, or EMS Instructor credentials consistent with assigned patient populations.
- Previous critical care transport, flight paramedicine, EMS, or prehospital experience.
- Experience in a Level I or II trauma center, tertiary referral center, or comparable high-acuity setting.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Advanced assessment, critical thinking, prioritization, and independent decision-making in resource-limited and rapidly changing environments.
- Competence in advanced ALS and critical care pharmacology, airway and ventilator management, hemodynamics, shock and resuscitation, trauma, neurologic and obstetric emergencies, and age-specific care within the program's scope.
- Ability to communicate concisely by radio, telephone, electronic systems, and in person; provide structured handoffs; and resolve conflict professionally.
- Ability to organize competing priorities, maintain situational awareness, and work effectively as part of a two-clinician transport team.
- Basic computer proficiency and ability to use electronic patient care, communication, inventory, and learning-management systems.
Physical Requirements
- Safely perform essential functions in confined aircraft and ambulance spaces and in hospital, scene, ramp, and outdoor environments.
- Regularly stand, walk, sit, reach, bend, kneel, stoop, climb aircraft steps, work in awkward positions, and push or pull loaded stretchers and equipment.
- Lift and/or move up to 50 pounds independently and assist with heavier patients and equipment using team-lift techniques and available mechanical aids.
- Possess sufficient vision, hearing, speech, manual dexterity, and depth and color perception to assess patients, operate equipment, communicate in high-noise environments, and complete documentation.
- Tolerate vibration, turbulence, motion, altitude-related pressure changes, temperature extremes, weather exposure, noise, limited lighting, and required protective and aviation safety equipment.
- Work rotating or extended shifts, nights, weekends, holidays, call periods, travel, and mission-related overtime while complying with fatigue and fitness-for-duty requirements.
- Work around blood and body fluids, infectious disease, hazardous materials, medications, and oxygen systems while following required safety controls.
NOTE: This description identifies the general nature and essential functions of the position and is not an exhaustive list of every duty. Pafford Medical Services, Inc. may assign other duties consistent with the employee's qualifications and operational needs. Reasonable
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