Flight Paramedic

Job Description

Job Description

HealthNet Aeromedical Services, Inc. is a not-for-profit shared service of Cabell Huntington Hospital/Marshall Health Network, Charleston Area Medical Center/Vandalia Health, and WVU Medicine.

In 1986, a group of West Virginia healthcare leaders met and created a vision for a safe, high-quality, technologically advanced not-for-profit critical care transport system. From that vision, HealthNet Aeromedical Services was born.

From humble beginnings with two medical helicopters, HealthNet Aeromedical Services has grown into a nationally recognized industry leader. With ten aircraft flying from eight strategically located flight bases and 42 ambulances serving seven HealthTeam Critical Care Transport base locations across the state, the program is well-positioned to serve the entirety of Central Appalachia and beyond.

HealthNet Aeromedical Services can look back with pride on nearly 40 years of service and over 120,000 patients safely cared for. 

Why HealthNet Aeromedical Services?

• Full Time Chief Medical Officer

• Full academy training program 

• AAMS Program of the Year 2019

• Top of the line equipment- Zoll X Series, Hamilton T1 ventilators, Sapphire IV infusion pumps, Video Laryngoscopy, Butterfly Ultrasound devices

• CAMTS accredited since 1995

• Only service in WV completing ECMO transports, isolette transports, finger thoracostomies, and having the ability to accept family members alongside our patients

• Nationally recognized Safety Department

• In-house Education Department providing clinicians who serve our patients with extensive and continuous training

• In-house Human Resources team providing support with an award-winning Employee Wellness Program and full complement of benefits for full time employees including premium-free options for Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance & Accidental Death and Dismemberment coverage

Flight Paramedic 

Position Reports To:  

Flight Team Leader at Assigned Helicopter Base(s)

 

Position Interfaces To:  

Chief Operating Officer, Chief Medical Officer

 

Position Overview:  

The Flight Paramedic provides intensive care level life support services to critically-ill and/or injured patients as part of an integrated air transport team.

 

Environmental and Mechanical  Considerations:  

Flight Paramedics deliver critical care services under the stresses of flight, with frequent exposure to blood/body fluids, in sometimes hazardous conditions, near moving mechanical parts and within high noise environments. Training and resources are available to mitigate risk as appropriate, but the responsibility to utilize those devices falls to the individual.