Paramedic

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 Paramedic continuously improves pre-hospital emergency skills, knowledge database and patient empathy; 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:

• New Mexico EMT-Paramedic Licensure
• Valid Drivers License
• Driving Record free of uninsurable violations
• Must meet the requirements for obtaining and maintaining life support certifications as outlined in the Life Support Certification policy. AHA ACLS, PALS, (NRP within one (1) year of hire)
• Meet NM DOT physical requirements
• Must obtain ICS 100,200,700,800

Preferred Qualifications:

• Four (4) years of EMT experience
• Completion of college level A&P
• NM State Special Skills Endorsement for Rapid Sequence Induction
• National Registry Certification

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Working knowledge of emergency medical procedures and techniques at their respective certification level
• Knowledge and utilization of NIMS guidelines
• 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
• 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
• Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees
• Responds to emergency calls as an ambulance crew member, performs necessary rescue work, administers necessary emergency medical care, and transports persons to appropriate medical facilities
• Provides paramedic level pre-hospital care as delineated in the NM Scope of Practice
• Maintains ambulance, equipment, and supplies in proper working order
• Assures ambulance quarters are clean, and ambulances are fully stocked and equipped and ready for immediate response. This includes substances that are accounted for on assigned shift and submits report daily in iOPS
• Participates in a continuous training program in technical medical work and in ambulance service and operation
• Acts as preceptor in new employee orientation
• May participate in public relation events as assigned
• Conducts tours of station as requested
• Assures all assigned communication devices (including assigned phones) are accounted for and readily available for use
• Cleans ambulances and stations 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 bloodborne diseases
• Contact with patients under 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
• Occasional pressure due to multiple calls and injuries
• Requires judgment/action which could result in death of a patient