Paramedic

This job was posted by https://www.kansasworks.com : For more information, please see: https://www.kansasworks.com/jobs/13637119 Position Summary: Under the supervision of the Operations Captain, the Paramedic provides advanced life support emergency care to sick and injured patients. The employee in this positionrespondsto911calls,rendersmedicalassistanceandtransportspatientstotheproper medical facility. This position is distinguishable from an EMT in that the position requires further initial education, additional specialized training, greater responsibility for patient care/outcome, and greater amount of annual continuingeducation. # Examples of Work (Essential Functions): - Assists patients, family members, and others confidentially and with concern and empathy; - Delivers advanced life support (ALS) care including medication administration, narcotic administration, ECG application/interpretation, invasive procedures, IV/IO, intubation, advanced airway care, thoracostomy, ventilator management, and various other pre- hospital critical care procedures; - Inspects and documents controlled substances daily or asdirected; - Maintains a thorough knowledge of departmental medical guidelines, operational protocols, as well as city and county geography, mapping androuting; - Operates all two-way radio communication equipment and troubleshootsproblems; - Operates emergency vehicles safely andprofessionally; - Operates, and can troubleshoot, all pre-hospital medical careequipment; - Performs daily vehicle, equipment, and stationinventory/maintenance; - Readies all medical equipment for use each day, and following each response, restocks all equipment and supplies, as well as troubleshoot equipment problems and reports needed maintenance to EMSadministrators; - Acts as a servant to the public, assists citizens in need, and communicates with all citizens, patients, family members, government employees, fellow emergency responders, and health care providers in a calm, courteous and respectfulmanner; - Responds to 911 calls and provides emergency medical treatment andtransport; - Uses department computers and accurately completes all patient care reports, billing reports and incident reports by the end of eachshift; - Maintains professional development and continuing education asrequired; - Performs other duties as deemed necessary or as required. # Abilities, Knowledge, Skills: - Ability to adapt and react to rapidly changing conditions and situations appropriately and able to cope with high stress high impact working conditions; - Ability to apply concepts of basic algebra andgeometry; - Ability to be naturally self-motivated and aself-starter; - Ability to calculate figures and amounts such as discounts, interest, commissions, proportions, percentages, area, circumference, andvolume; - Ability to convey and receive detailed or important verbal instructions to and from other workers and the generalpublic; - Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw validconclusions; - Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the generalpublic; - Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of verbalcommunication; - Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concretevariables; - Ability to read, analyze, and interpret general business periodicals, professionaljournals, technical procedures, or governmentalregulations; - Ability to reliably and predictably carry outduties; - Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and proceduremanuals; - Knowledge inparamedics; - Knowledge of county and city mapping must bemaintained; - Knowledge of emergency medical care and ambulanceprocedures; - Knowledge of emergency vehicle operation and radio operations isrequired; - Knowledge of math, including medical/infusion rate calculations as well as medical documentation; - Skill in math, including medical/medication calculations as well as medical documentation; - Skill in operating a computer; - Skill in oral and written communication.