Pay Range

AirCare Paramedic - Ground Transport

This position is Sign-on Bonus eligible and qualifies for a$7500 signon bonus provided the candidate meets eligibility requirements!

What youll do:

The ALS Paramedic provides professional care through high-quality assessment triage / treatment to assess the nature and extent of a patients illness / injury and prioritize the needed care. Provides comprehensive care through skillful assessment diagnosis outcomes identification planning implementation and evaluation. The Paramedic must have strong clinical knowledge and skills necessary to care for patients of all ages with a diverse range of medical needs (infants geriatric) operating specialized medical equipment and utilizing advanced skills. The Paramedic functions autonomously outside of the hospital environment under standards and protocols approved by the Medical Director as established by the NC Office of Emergency Medical Services (NCOEMS). The Paramedic must be proficient in advanced practice procedures to provide improved patient outcomes.

Were Looking For:

• High school graduate or GED required
• Successful completion of an accredited EMT-Paramedic training program required
• North Carolina Paramedic certification required
• BLS required
• ACLS and PALS required to completing orientation
• Two (2) years of clinical paramedic experience required - to include one (1) year of active field pre-hospital experience required
• Advocate Health approved driving course to be completed within 90 days of hire
• Must have a valid drivers license and qualify as insurable by Advocate Health insurance carrier requirements for driving AirCare vehicles

Knowledge / Skills / Abilities

• Collects data pertinent to the healthcare consumers health or the situation.
• Analyzes the assessment data to determine the diagnosis or issues.
• Identifies expected outcomes for a plan individualized to the healthcare consumer or the situation.
• Develops a plan that prescribes strategies and alternatives to attain expected outcomes.
• Implements the identified plan coordinates care delivery and employs strategies to promote health and a safe environment.
• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Practices ethically
• Delegates elements of care to appropriate healthcare workers
• Promotes shared governance or facility decision making activities developing and nurturing research to positively affect clinical outcomes and promotion.
• Attains knowledge and competence that reflects the current Paramedic practice.
• Integrate evidence and research findings into practice.
• Contributes to quality Paramedic practice.
• Communicate effectively in a variety of formats in all areas of practice.
• Evaluates own Paramedic practice in relation to professional practice standards and guidelines relevant statutes rules and regulations.
• Utilizes appropriate resources to plan and provide Paramedic services that are safe effective and financially responsible.
• Participates in committees shared governance or other facility decision making activities.
• Practice in an environmentally safe and healthy manner
• Models the mission vision values standards of excellence and goals of the atrium health system.
• Supports and contributes to the patient centered care philosophy by understanding that every teammate is a caregiver whose role is to meet the needs of the patient.
• Independently initiates advanced practice procedures to provide improved patient outcomes depending on job and scope of practice such as video laryngoscopy (BAID) Blind airway insertion device needle chest decompression central line placement (EJ) intraosseous placement and initiation/titration of pharmacological agents.
• Initiates and sets up ventilation equipment. Operates assesses and manages patient airway support ventilator settings and equipment.
  • Ensures patient care equipment is in proper working order and all supplies are present by utilizing daily check-off sheets and reporting any known issues.
  • Ensures that the ambulance patient care area is clean restocked and kept in a neat and orderly condition at the beginning of each shift and when necessary to maintain a mission ready status.
• Must be capable of handling equipment challenges and failures without support of internal hospital resources.
  • Obtains necessary signatures and paperwork for each transport
  • Thoroughly documents medical care and treatments of patients in the EHR.
• Must maintain annual compliance in education related to specialty area and/or primary base location outside of typical Paramedic practice.
  • Simulation lab
  • Mechanical Ventilator Management/Lab
  • Certified Emergency Vehicle Operations
  • Sleep Deprivation/Just Culture/Stress Management

Our CommitmenttoYou:

Advocate Health offers a comprehensive suite of Total Rewards: benefits and well-being programs competitive compensation generous retirement offerings programs that invest in your career development and so much more so you can live fully at and away from work including:

Compensation

• Base compensation listed within the listed pay range based on factors such as qualifications skills relevant experience and/or training
• Premium pay such as shift on call and more based on a teammates job
• Incentive pay for select positions
• Opportunity for annual increases based on performance

Benefits and more

• Paid Time Off programs
• Health and welfare benefits such as medical dental vision life andShort- and Long-Term Disability
• Flexible Spending Accounts for eligible health care and dependent care expenses
• Family benefits such as adoption assistance and paid parental leave
• Defined contribution retirement plans with employer match and other financial wellness programs
• Educational Assistance Program