AirLife Flight Paramedic

Hourly Wage Estimate: $24.24 - $36.36 / hour
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Experience the HCA Healthcare difference where colleagues are trusted, valued members of our healthcare team. Grow your career with an organization committed to delivering respectful, compassionate care, and where the unique and intrinsic worth of each individual is recognized. Submit your application for the opportunity below: AirLife Flight Paramedic 

Job Summary and Qualifications

 The AirLife Adult/Pediatric Transport Team Paramedic utilizes their experience, education, and training to both autonomously and collaboratively deliver critical care to critically ill and/or injured patients aboard fixed-wing aircraft, rotor wing aircraft, and ground ambulance between medical facilities or directly from the scene of an accident or illness. The Adult/Pediatric Transport Paramedic provides care to a broad age range of patients from infants (weighing> 5 kg) to geriatric patients.

What you will do in this role:

• Coordinates, delivers, and documents all aspects of patient care in collaboration with referral teams, physicians, AirLife team members, patients, and families while adhering to established standards of care and scope of practice. 
• Works autonomously and collaboratively, adhering to AirLife clinical guidelines, policies, and procedures with minimal support. 
• Maintains confidentiality of PHI in accordance with AirLife, HCA, and HIPAA standards.
• Demonstrates awareness of and routinely practices safe work habits and adheres to the AirLife Commitment to Safety. 
• Maintains proficiency in flight physiology, general aircraft, and ambulance safety operations, and emergency procedures. 
• Participates in quality improvement initiatives including chart reviews, data collection, and process improvement.
• Supports the mission of AirLife and HCA including the pillars of Safety, Service, Quality, People, and Growth and adheres to the AirLife Rules of the Game 
• Participates in outreach activities including transport safety and clinical education. 
• Completes orientation requirements within an appropriate timeframe as determined by AirLife Leadership. 
• Performs other duties as assigned. • Practices and adheres to the HCA Code of Conduct and AirLife Mission and Vision

What qualifications you will need:

• Completion of a Paramedic Training Program with Colorado Paramedic Certification with Critical Care endorsement required at time of hire
• Nationally Registered Paramedic (NREMT-P) required at time of hire
• BLS, ACLS, PALS, and NRP required at time of hire
• Certified Flight Paramedic (FP-C) required at time of hire
• 5 years or more caring for diverse patient populations as a flight, surface transport, or in-hospital Paramedic
• Critical care transport experience preferred, but not required
• Bachelor's Degree preferred, but not required

HCA HealthONE AirLife Critical Care Denver, offers a total rewards package that supports the health, life, career and retirement of our colleagues. The available plans and programs include:

• Comprehensive benefits  for medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, behavioral health and telemedicine services
• Wellbeing support,  including free counseling and referral services
• Time away from work  programs for paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short-term disability coverage and leaves of absence
• Savings and retirement resources , including a 401(k) Plan with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay (based on years of service), Employee Stock Purchase Plan, flexible spending accounts, preferred banking partnerships, retirement readiness tools, rollover support and financial wellbeing counseling
• Education support  through tuition assistance, student loan assistance, certification support, dependent scholarships and a partnership with Galen College of Nursing
• Additional benefits  for fertility and family building, adoption assistance, life insurance, supplemental health protection plans, auto and home insurance, legal counseling, identity theft protection and consumer discounts

Note: Eligibility for benefits may vary by location.

HCA HealthONE , one of the largest and most comprehensive healthcare systems in the Rocky Mountain region, offers more than 170 care sites in the Denver-metro area. Offering services across the continuum of care to meet patients’ total healthcare needs, HCA HealthONE includes seven acute care hospitals, a dedicated flagship pediatric hospital, a rehabilitation hospital, CareNow® urgent care clinics, mental health campuses, imaging and surgery centers, physician practices, home and hospice care, and AirLife Denver, which provides regional critical care air and ground transportation. 

HCA HealthONE employs more than 12,000 colleagues and has been named one of the top five large health systems in the country multiple years. HCA HealthONE and its parent company, HCA Healthcare, have been named 14 consecutive times by Ethisphere as a World’s Most Ethical Company and two consecutive years as a LinkedIn Top Company. HCA HealthONE hospitals includes: Centennial, Aurora, Mountain Ridge, Presbyterian/St. Luke’s, Rocky Mountain Children’s, Rose, Sky Ridge, Swedish, and Spalding working together to provide a higher level of care. 

Consistently among the Denver Business Journals’ list of top corporate philanthropists in the Denver-metro area, HCA HealthONE was named as one of the most community-minded organizations by The Civic 50 and contributed more than $1 million through cash and in-kind donations last year alone, along with more than $400M in federal, state and local taxes. 

If you find this opportunity compelling, we encourage you to apply for our AirLife Flight Paramedic opening. We promptly review all applications. Highly qualified candidates will be directly contacted by a member of our team. We are interviewing - apply today!

We are an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.