QI Education Specialist- EMS

Required Knowledge Skills Abilities and Minimum Qualifications:

The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge skills abilities and minimum qualifications necessary to perform the essential functions of the position. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the job.

Requirements include the following:

• Associate degree in emergency medical services business administration or a related field and three years of progressively more responsible experience in an emergency medical operation including prior experience providing medical care.
• The County at its discretion may consider an alternative combination of formal education and work experience.
• State of Michigan Paramedic license State of Michigan licensed Paramedic Instructor Coordinator American Heart Association Instructor Trainer American Heart Association Community Training Center Manager Hazardous Materials Operations certifications and meet or exceed the Washtenaw/Livingston Medical Control Authority requirements.
• Certified Medical Transport Executive ITLS Instructor certified Ambulance Coder and completion of NIMSand 800 courses. Community Paramedic Certification. International Trauma Life Support Instructor certification.
• Michigan Vehicle Operators License.
• Thorough knowledge of the professional public management techniques involved in personnel administration and resource management.
• Thorough knowledge of the principles and practices of training EMS personnel trends in emergency medical services and business administration.
• Considerable knowledge of trends in paramedic equipment providing paramedic services handling and resolving EMS personnel issues and applying local state and federal law rules and regulations.
• Skill in assembling and analyzing data and preparing comprehensive and accurate reports.
• Skill in effectively communicating ideas and concepts orally and in writing.
• Ability to establish effective working relationships and use good judgment initiative and resourcefulness when dealing with County employees contractors to the County representatives of other governmental units professional contacts elected officials and the public.
• Ability to assess situations solve problems work effectively under stress within deadlines and in emergency situations.
• Skill in the use of office equipment and EMS technologies Microsoft Suite applications and specialized EMS software databases and equipment.
• Knowledge of data and statistics internal policies research principles continuous quality improvement principles and regional and state protocols.
• Knowledge and experience working with medical control systems. Knowledgeable about blood-borne pathogen procedure.
• Skill in developing and implementing policies and procedures prioritizing work supervising and evaluating employees handling and resolving personnel issues.
• Skill in advanced paramedic principles and practices and the ability to assist in the direction and management of EMS operations.

Physical Demands and Work Environment:

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The physical demands and work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. These include but are not limited to the following requirements:

• Ability to pass physical agility and strength test administered by the department.
• Ability to carry injured person on cot backboard and stretcher as part of a two-person team.
• Ability to carry persons on cot stretcher backboard or stair chairs up and down stairs over rough terrain as part of a two-person team.
• Ability to lift injured person from floor from cot to ambulance from cot to bed and in other lifting situations.
• Ability to lift and carry various emergency medical equipment weighing up to 100 lbs.
• Ability to perform rescue operations in rough terrain and in hard-to-reach locations.
• Ability to safely drive rescue vehicle in all types of weather conditions and at all times of the day or night.
• Ability to work in cramped body positions.
• May work in the same position for extended periods of time during extrications.
• Squatting stooping kneeling and reaching to perform rescue operations.
• Must be able to perform strenuous physical requirements such as CPR lifting and moving of equipment and patients in a variety of environmental conditions.
• Must be able to swim at the basic survival level.
• Must be able to perform required medical skills and techniques such as bandaging splinting establishing an IV performing endotracheal intubation and other advanced airway techniques manual defibrillation pleural decompression.
• Must have correctable vision acceptable for day and night operation of emergency vehicles must have color acuity adequate for determination of skin and blood color and must be able to read medication dosages on drug labels and syringes.
• Must be able to hear and understand information provided by patients family or bystanders; must be able to hear breath sounds and accurately determine auscultated blood pressures; must be able to differentiate separate conversations in active distracting environments; must be able to hear and understand radio traffic when responding with lights and sirens.
• Must be able to speak and enunciate clearly and at a level audible to others in loud conditions must be able to speak clearly in stressful situations must be able to verbally communicate with patients families and other emergency personnel.

Working Conditions:

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to communicate in person and by telephone read regular and small print view and produce written and electronic documents and enter data on a computer keyboard with repetitive keystrokes. The employee must be mobile in an office setting stand sit stoop and kneel use hands to finger handle or feel and reach with hands and arms. The employee must lift or push/pull objects of up to 15 lbs. without assistance. Accommodation will be made as needed for employees required to lift or move objects that exceed this weight.

The typical work environment of this job is a business office setting where the noise level is quiet and sometimes moderate. However the incumbent could also be assigned to duties as a field supervisor/Paramedic if conditions warrant. In this situation the incumbent could be exposed to unsanitary or unhygienic materials individuals and situations in the course of performing required duties.

• Exposure to contagious diseases.
• Exposure to extreme changes in temperature.
• Required to work in all types of weather conditions.
• Exposure to persons in various emotional states as well as under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs.

Required Experience:

Unclear Seniority