Paramedic

Join Decypher and make a direct impact on the health and readiness of Americas service members, veterans, and their families. Since 2008 Decypher has offered healthcare industry professionals careers where their expertise is valued, and their work makes a meaningful impact. Decypher partners with the Defense Health Agency to deliver professional services, technology, and management solutions. Our mission is to provide and support quality care for our veterans, servicemembers and their families, across the United States.

Job Summary: Paramedics will use basic life support skills to identify, care, communicate, and document injuries, method of treatment, rehabilitation, and medical releases. Paramedics will provide patient care and ensure proper coordination of EMS transportation (if required) and function as part of a comprehensive EMS response, under medical oversight.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: High School Diploma or equivalent
• Certifications:
  • Basic Life Support (BLS)
  • Advanced Cardio Life Support (ACLS)
• License:
  • Current National EMT-P Certification (National Registry) or state license at the EMT-Paramedic level, or higher.
• Experience:
  • 3 years of experience within the last 5 years

U.S. Citizenship is required

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess a patients condition and determine a course of treatment per local protocol.
• Provide triage for student(s) incapable to perform in training due to medical and musculoskeletal reasons. Triage will be used to determine:
• If student is stable, refer all medical conditions to the physicians on staff
• If student is stable with an exclusively musculoskeletal condition, refer to athletic trainers and/or sports medicine physicians for assessment and reconditioning.
• If student is unstable will activate Emergency Management System (EMS) and arrange for transport to nearest emergency center.
• Assigned to medical monitoring of training event modules per direction from Government to provide medical coverage, including both aquatic and land-based training.
• Respond, stabilize, and activate EMS in response to physical trauma, heat stroke, near drowning episodes or other emergencies, per local protocol.
• Summarize the nature of injury and emergency care rendered to the receiving EMS responders.
• Inventory, replace, and clean all supplies and equipment after use. Assist with maintenance of supplies, clinical spaces, and medical response vehicles.
• Work with a multidisciplinary human performance team that includes other medical professionals to ensure the proper care and health monitoring of all students (i.e., physicians, sports medicine providers, athletic trainers, physical therapists, operational psychologists, strength coaches, etc.).
• Coordinate with contracted or military medical director, government supervisor, preceptor and/or lead paramedic daily for proper medical oversight and direction in accordance with national and state EMT-P and paramedic guidelines.
• Keep accurate records of all injuries, method of treatment, rehabilitation, and medical releases. During normal operations, provide relevant information to SW medical staff to support the students medical needs.
• The work requires some physical exertion, such as walking over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces as well as time spent outdoors in extreme temperatures and variable weather conditions. Work can require prolonged standing indoors or outdoors, bending, reaching, and lifting up to 50 lbs. HCW is required to maintain strength, coordination, and stamina to manage and operate exercise and medical equipment.
• Visits or extended duties in these locations or sites are necessary to observe performance/events, to survey, to conduct planning, etc. to ensure mission accomplishment. Some agility and strength may be required in executing medical coverage in these operational environments.
• The Contractor will report all activities to appropriate Government oversight, which may be required as inputs into the Human Performance Utilization Tracker (HPUT) or similar database.
• Work may require travel away from the normal duty station in order to support training requirements

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to traverse uneven and/or wooded territory to reach patients in field conditions.
• Must be able to extricate patients from field conditions to an appropriate medical response vehicle.
• Perform various exercise procedures under stress, including lifting heavy weights potentially up to 100 lbs., squatting, sitting, running, jumping, bending, walking, crawling (low/high profile) for up to 25 meters, and prolonged standing.
• Must be able to move over, around, and through obstacles to a height of 10 feet, and travel up to 1.5 miles over rough terrain in extreme temperatures.
• Must be a strong swimmer to enable appropriate response to emergencies in a pool setting

Work Environment & Schedule: Work a non-standard schedule, extended hours, and/or rotating shifts which may include early morning, evenings, nights, weekends.

Decypher is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce (M/F/D/V)