Montana Staffing
Ground Paramedic
The Ground Paramedic demonstrates advanced critical thinking capabilities in working autonomously and in collaboration with other health care providers in the delivery of care to critically ill patients in diverse and non-traditional settings. Essential functions include providing advanced medical care, safely driving and operating ambulances and other emergency vehicles, transporting patients to appropriate medical facilities while ensuring their safety and stability, maintaining effective communication with dispatch, hospital staff, police, fire personnel, and other necessary parties, accurately completing and maintaining Patient Care Reports, files, and forms, cleaning and maintaining medical equipment, vehicles, and living quarters, participating in ongoing training and continuing education to maintain paramedic certification and stay current with medical protocols, providing supervision and ensuring the quality and accuracy of care provided by EMTs and other emergency personnel, and providing patient education on various health topics, including disease management and prevention. Idaho Base: Community Health Emergency Services (CHEMS): Provides continued or follow-up care that can prevent unnecessary readmissions, or 911 calls from those patients within the community. Skills include patient care, advanced medication knowledge and administration, emergency medical services, safe patient handling, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, documentation, regulatory compliance, and CHEMS, acting as healthcare navigators for patients, transitional care for patients after they are discharged from a hospital stay, vaccinations, medication inventories, resource coordination, and basic medical therapeutics. Minimum qualifications include successful completion of Paramedic course, must obtain Paramedic license in state of operation within 120 days, Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers, and current valid driver license in good standing. Preferred qualifications include Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Transport Professional Advanced Trauma Course (TPATC), or Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Certification, Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification, Paramedic National Registry Certification, Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification, and Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification. Physical requirements include performance of essential job responsibilities in a moving, ground ambulance, hospital as well as the potential to do so in an outdoor environment (inclement weather, extremes of temperature, accident scenes, steep terrain, back country, etc.), exposure to noise, vibration, and dehydrating environment of a ground ambulance, exposure to patients with known or unknown infectious disease in an enclosed space, ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies, frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations, manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy, expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients, need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment, and may be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time. Location: Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital Work City: Billings Work State: Montana Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $24.06 - $37.15 We care about your well-being mind, body, and spirit which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.
The Ground Paramedic demonstrates advanced critical thinking capabilities in working autonomously and in collaboration with other health care providers in the delivery of care to critically ill patients in diverse and non-traditional settings. Essential functions include providing advanced medical care, safely driving and operating ambulances and other emergency vehicles, transporting patients to appropriate medical facilities while ensuring their safety and stability, maintaining effective communication with dispatch, hospital staff, police, fire personnel, and other necessary parties, accurately completing and maintaining Patient Care Reports, files, and forms, cleaning and maintaining medical equipment, vehicles, and living quarters, participating in ongoing training and continuing education to maintain paramedic certification and stay current with medical protocols, providing supervision and ensuring the quality and accuracy of care provided by EMTs and other emergency personnel, and providing patient education on various health topics, including disease management and prevention. Idaho Base: Community Health Emergency Services (CHEMS): Provides continued or follow-up care that can prevent unnecessary readmissions, or 911 calls from those patients within the community. Skills include patient care, advanced medication knowledge and administration, emergency medical services, safe patient handling, communication, problem-solving, teamwork, documentation, regulatory compliance, and CHEMS, acting as healthcare navigators for patients, transitional care for patients after they are discharged from a hospital stay, vaccinations, medication inventories, resource coordination, and basic medical therapeutics. Minimum qualifications include successful completion of Paramedic course, must obtain Paramedic license in state of operation within 120 days, Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers, and current valid driver license in good standing. Preferred qualifications include Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Transport Professional Advanced Trauma Course (TPATC), or Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Certification, Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification, Paramedic National Registry Certification, Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification, and Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification. Physical requirements include performance of essential job responsibilities in a moving, ground ambulance, hospital as well as the potential to do so in an outdoor environment (inclement weather, extremes of temperature, accident scenes, steep terrain, back country, etc.), exposure to noise, vibration, and dehydrating environment of a ground ambulance, exposure to patients with known or unknown infectious disease in an enclosed space, ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies, frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations, manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy, expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients, need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment, and may be expected to stand in a stationary position for an extended period of time. Location: Intermountain Health St Vincent Regional Hospital Work City: Billings Work State: Montana Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40 The hourly range for this position is listed below. Actual hourly rate dependent upon experience. $24.06 - $37.15 We care about your well-being mind, body, and spirit which is why we provide our caregivers a generous benefits package that covers a wide range of programs to foster a sustainable culture of wellness that encompasses living healthy, happy, secure, connected, and engaged. Intermountain Health is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.