Paramedic

*Job Summary and Responsibilities* As a Paramedic, you will provide advanced emergency medical care and transport to critically ill or injured patients in pre-hospital and inter-facility settings. Every day you will rapidly assess scenes, evaluate conditions, and administer life-saving interventions, while safely operating emergency vehicles and documenting care. To be successful, you will demonstrate expert clinical skills, exceptional critical thinking under stress, and compassionate communication, ensuring optimal patient outcomes. Maintains established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement program and safety standards. Performs patient systems assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner. Enters patient data into computerized patient care reporting system so that there are no deficiencies. Performs direct patient care and implements patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner while administering medications and performing procedures consistent with EMT certification. Administers medications and performs procedures consistent with Paramedic certification and selected S-SV EMS treatment protocols. Participates in problem identification and patient care planning. Job Requirements*Required Six months experience as a paramedic with an accredited EMS agency or Fire Department. and Hiring manager may consider the applicants field internship as qualifying experience if the preceptorship was completed at a Dignity Health North Service Area facility and successfully completed. Driver's License: CA, upon hire and Certified Ambulance Driver: CA, upon hire and Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association) Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association) Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association) CDMC, upon hire and Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic: CA, upon hire and Local Paramedic Accrediated, upon hire Where You'll Work Founded in 1906, Dignity Health - St. Elizabeth Community Hospital is a 76-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Red Bluff, California. Serving over 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including a Level III Trauma Center, heart care, cancer care, and a family birth center. Additionally, St. Elizabeth Community Hospital, has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation and is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center. It has been named a Top Rural Hospital by The Leapfrog Group for two consecutive years, one of only 16 rural hospitals in the US to achieve this award. [One Community. One Mission. One California ]( *Pay Range* $45.28 - $51.07 /hour #J-18808-Ljbffr CommonSpirit Health