Emergency Medical Technician - HART Program

Position Overview

If you're looking to be a part of a collaborative environment where your skills can make an impact, explore our current opportunities in creating a better future for public health.

About Harris County Public Health: Harris County Public Health (HCPH) includes a network of more than 1,100 public health professionals working together to improve health outcomes for the third most populous county in the United States. HCPH provides a multitude of services such as medical and dental services, community programming, and health education for the approximately 2.3 million people in unincorporated Harris County. Through its core values of innovation, engagement, and health equity, HCPH strives to bring meaningful solutions to public health issues while keeping Harris County healthy and vibrant.

Our Values:

• Transparency - We share information openly and honestly so that staff, partners, and the community understand our actions and the reasons behind them.
• Integrity - Our actions reflect strong ethical principles, ensuring we remain trustworthy, accountable, and consistent with our mission.
• Respect - We foster a supportive environment by valuing diverse perspectives, listening intentionally, and treating people with dignity in every interaction.
• Impact - We focus our efforts on activities that improve health, reduce disparities, and create meaningful, measurable outcomes for the communities we serve.
• Collaboration - We actively partner across teams, disciplines, organizations, and communities to align our efforts toward common goals.

Position Overview: Under the direction of the HART Medical Director and supervision of Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) Field Supervisor, the HART EMT works in partnership with the HART Crisis Intervention Specialist (CIS) to form the Response Team. The HART EMT responds to non-emergent social welfare, physical, mental, and/or behavioral health calls by ensuring community member (patient) stabilization, assess injuries and illnesses, provide basic life support. The HART EMT provides support to and may assist the CIS to safely and actively engaging community members in non-enforcement strategies and tactics such as de-escalation, harm reduction, and trauma informed care. The HART EMT will make informed decisions related to best practices in a medical situation, crisis, referrals, crisis counseling, and determine the need for immediate transportation to needed services.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Respond to calls for non-emergency community care services via Mobile Computer Terminal (MCT) or radio.
• Assess a patient's condition and determine if the patient is stable or requires EMS assistance and report assessment findings to the on scene behavioral health specialist.
• Provide first-aid treatment and/or basic life support to patients
• Clearly explain procedures to patients and relay information to other responders.
• Transfer patients to designated community care facilities or EMS.
• Work with a behavioral health specialist/social worker to refer patients to community based resources in an effort to keep them out of the hospitals and criminal justice system.
• Document medical care given to patients in a prompt and effective manner.
• Inventory, replace, and sterilize supplies and equipment after use.
• Maintain and clean service vehicle and station locations daily.

Harris County is an Equal Opportunity Employer