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The EMT will be responsible for providing Basic Life Support (BLS) patient care and ambulance transportation.

Education:

High School Diploma or GED

Licenses and Certifications

Driver's License

EMT - B

Healthcare Provider (CPR)

Qualifications

Knowledge: -Emergency clinical practices, procedures, and protocol

Technical Skills: -Diagnosing and treating patients -Exercising judgment, dexterity, and physical coordination -Preparing clear and concise reports -Driving emergency vehicles

Behavioral and Physical Skills: -Act calmly and quickly in emergencies -Work independently as part of a team, sometimes alongside emergency fire and police units -Create and maintain a positive and cooperative working environment in stressful situations -Work during odd hours and for extended periods, sometimes outdoors and in adverse weather conditions -Work with much standing, bending, and kneeling -Work with a partner in lifting patients whose weight occasionally exceeds 200 pounds -Avoid or minimize health risks from exposure to ill patients.

Must possess a valid driver's license and maintain an acceptable motor vehicle record. Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a motor vehicle record (MVR) check and meeting insurability requirements. A minimum of two (2) years of driving experience is required.

Current Georgia EMT-B license required.

Statement Of Employment Philosophy

Being a part of Tanner Health System is more than a job, it is a promise we make to treat every patient with exceptional service every time they walk through our doors. Service excellence is the foundation of our organizational culture and the expectations we all set for each other, our patients, physicians and our community. All employees agree to abide by a set of service standards. These standards are the promise we make to provide the best care possible, and represent our beliefs, values and who we strive to become. We each commit to making Tanner Health System a great place for our employees to work, for patients to receive care and for physicians to practice medicine.

Functions

Area of Responsibilities

Provides emergency and non-emergency ambulance operation in conjunction with a partner, demonstrating excellent driving judgement and due to regard for public safety during operation and positioning of unit.

Responds to all assigned calls in the most appropriate, safe, and efficient manner to quickly assess the scene and request other help if needed.

Provides BLS patient care in accordance with established procedures and prescribe local protocols and clinical guidelines. Diagnoses and treats patients with appropriate techniques, resources, and equipment.

May work with a Paramedic in an ALS operation, providing overall care in the areas of patient assessment, packaging and transport.

Completes appropriate medical records and transportation reports.

Maintains a thorough working knowledge of current EMT standards to care, including equipment and use.

Maintains a thorough working knowledge of local geography, including mapping, street, and grid book systems.

Maintains units and equipment in a clean, organized and ready condition after each response.

Ensures proper fuel, fluid, and tire pressure levels at all times. Reports equipment damage or malfunction as prescribed.

Completes all station duties and maintains crew quarters in neat and serviceable conditions.

Compliance Statement

Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.

Required Knowledge & Skills

Education: High School Diploma or GED

Experience: No prior work experience required.

Licenses and Certifications

DRIVER'S LICENSE

EMT - B

HEALTHCARE PROVIDER (CPR)

Qualifications

Knowledge: -Emergency clinical practices, procedures, and protocol

Technical Skills: -Diagnosing and treating patients -Exercising judgement, dexterity, and physical coordination -Preparing clear and concise reports -Driving emergency vehicles

Behavioral and Physical Skills: -Act calmly and quickly in emergency situations -Work independently as part of a team, sometimes alongside emergency fire and police units -Create and maintain a positive and cooperative working environment in stressful situations -Work during odd hours and for extended periods of time, sometimes outdoors and in adverse weather conditions -Work with much standing, bending, and kneeling -Work with a partner in lifting patients whose weight occasionally exceeds 200 pounds -Avoid or minimize health risks from exposure to ill patients.

Current Georgia EMT-B license required.

Definitions

The EMT will be responsible for providing Basic Life Support (BLS) patient care and ambulance transportation.

Position Responsibilities

Contact with Others: Requires frequent contact with many persons at different levels inside and outside of the organization to carry out organization policies and programs and obtain willing acceptance, consent, or action.

Effect of Error: Probable errors may be serious and involve losses such as improper costs, overpayment, waste of material, damage to equipment, and delay in processing work. Effect usually confined within the organization. Most of work not subject to direct verification or check. Regularly works with some confidential data such as account, salaries, patient medical records, which if disclosed might have adverse internal or external effects.

People Management Responsibilities

Supervisory Responsibility: Exercises no supervision, work direction, or instruction of other employees or students

Work Environment/Physical Effort

Mental Demands: Work involves a variety of problems in a general field, some of which are complex. Involves some independent judgment to decide what to do to assemble facts, determine variations from standard procedures, or plan other action to be taken to meet general objectives.

Working Conditions: Extreme - Constantly involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.

Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations

Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): Yes

Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: Yes

Physical Effort: Considerable physical effort - Lifts, carries, or handles medium weight equipment, materials, or supplies most of day. Occasional physical effort with heavy objects (over 60 lbs.). Works in reaching or strained positions frequently.

Physical Aspects

Bending: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Typing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Manual Dexterity -- picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Feeling (Touch) -- determining temperature, texture, by touching: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Hearing: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Reaching -- above shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Reaching -- below shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Visual: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Color Vision: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Speaking: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.

Standing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Balancing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Walking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Crawling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Running - in response to an emergency: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Lifting over 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Handling -- seizing, holding, grasping: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Carrying: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Climbing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Kneeling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Squatting: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Tasting: Not required

Smelling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Driving -- Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Driving -- Class C vehicles: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Driving -- CDL class vehicles: Not required

N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time

Pushing/Pulling -- over 60 lbs. : Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time