EMT

EMT/AEMT Opportunity At San Juan Regional Medical Center

Creating life better here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.

The EMT continuously improves pre-hospital emergency skills, knowledge database and patient empathy; the AEMT functions to decrease suffering, improve the health of the community and save lives.

Required Behaviors:

• As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.

Required Qualifications :

• High School diploma or equivalent
• NM Licensure as an EMT
• Meet NM (PRC) DOT physical requirements
• BLS certification as required by license
• ACLS (within 90 days of employment)
• PALS (within 90 days of employment)
• ITLS or PHTLS within 1 year of employment
• Valid NM Drivers License
• Driving Record free of un-insurable violations
• NIMS ICS 100, 200, 700, 800 (within 90 days of employment)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Within four (4) years of initial employment, will either be licensed as a paramedic or currently enrolled in an accredited paramedic program. Failure to achieve this standard will result in assignment to the BLS unit in place of other, less senior medics actively working toward licensure at the paramedic level.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working knowledge of emergency medical procedures and techniques.
• Working knowledge of equipment and supplies employed in the emergency care of patients and victims of accidents.
• Working knowledge of city and county geography and location of roads and streets, hospitals and nursing homes.
• Working knowledge of radio communications equipment and procedures.
• Skill in assessing a victim's condition and applying emergency medical care appropriately.
• Ability to operate an ambulance safely under various weather conditions.
• Ability to deal with patients, their families, co-workers, other agencies and hospital staff courteously and professionally at all times.
• Responds to emergency calls as an ambulance driver or attendant, performs necessary rescue work, administers necessary emergency medical care, and transports persons to appropriate medical facilities.
• Provides EMT-Intermediate pre-hospital care as delineated in the NM Scope of Practice.
• Maintains ambulance, equipment, and supplies in proper working order.
• Assure ambulance quarters are clean, and ambulance fully stocked and equipped and ready for immediate response. This includes controlled substances are accounted for on assigned shift and submits report daily in IOPS.
• Acts as preceptor in new employee orientation if assigned.
• Completes and submits electronic patient care report (ePCR) as soon as the incident is done, or by the end of the shift or within twenty-four (24) hours after transport and completion of call.
• May participate in public relations as assigned.
• Conducts tours of station as requested.
• Assures all assigned communication devices, including assigned phones, are accounted for and readily available for use.
• May be required to pick up additional shifts outside of normal shift rotation to assure adequate staffing is achieved for 911 coverage.
• Cleans ambulances and stations daily on assigned shifts.
• Keeps current street and road patterns of the cities and county of assigned areas.
• Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work: Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship.
• Other duties as assigned

Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:

• Ability to lift fifty (50) Kg.
• May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases.
• Regularly exposed to the risk of blood borne diseases.
• Contact with patients under a wide variety of circumstances.
• Exposure to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries and illness).
• Subject to varying and unpredictable situations.
• Handles emergency or crisis situations.
• Occasionally subjected to irregular hours.