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EMS Student- March 2027 Class

Global Medical Response

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Compensation
$16/hr
Location
Belleville, IL
Work Authorization
Not specified

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Requirements

Credentials this posting asks for.

Valid Driver's License

Job overview

The EMT Student participates in an Earn While You Learn program designed to prepare students for work on BLS, ALS, and CCT units. The program develops skills for an accelerated transition into EMS. The successful applicant is described as motivated, compassionate, and focused on patient care and customer service.

Skills & qualifications

RequiredNice to have

Skills

Patient CareCustomer ServiceTeamworkEmpathyCompassionMedical ProtocolsEmergency Vehicle OperationPatient DocumentationMedication Label ReadingCommunicationPatient ObservationRadio Communication

Qualifications

Must Be 18+High School Diploma or GEDValid Driver's LicenseHealth Standards CompliancePre-Employment ScreeningCriminal Background CheckDrug TestingAcademic/Cognitive ScreeningPhysical Ability Test

Full job description

Belleville, IL

EMT STUDENT

"EARN WHILE YOU LEARN PROGRAM"

START YOUR EMS CAREER WITH AMR!

$16.00 per hour

Develop the skills necessary for an accelerated transition into EMS by attending our Earn While You Learn Program which will prepare you to work aboard BLS, ALS, and CCT units!

Application deadline: February 1st, 2027

Orientation: February 22nd, 2027

Class starts: March 1st, 2027

(all above dates are tentative and subject to change in the coming weeks)

WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

The successful applicant is motivated to become part of a team that delivers high-quality patient care and stellar customer service at a moment’s notice. This EMS Student is highly motivated and compassionate, providing the best care possible while ensuring the highest degree of safety for our patients. If this sounds like you, apply now to launch an exciting career with the nation’s leading EMS provider!

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Follows and maintains thorough familiarity with evolving medical treatment protocols, response requirements, quality assurance procedures, local Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), and other Company policies.

  • Operates Company vehicles in accordance with Risk & Safety policies; is familiar with and abides by traffic laws governing the operation of Emergency Response vehicles

  • Maintains complete and accurate documentation of patient assessment and treatment of patient statistical and billing information and services rendered.

  • Reads medication/prescription labels and directions for usage in a quick, accurate and expedient manner.

  • Communicates effectively with empathy and compassion to patients, their family members, bystanders, other service agency members, and facility staff.

  • Discerns deviations/changes in eye/skin coloration due to a patient’s condition and to the treatment given.

  • Converses with Dispatch, facility staff, and other responders via phone or radio as to the status of a patient.

REQUIREMENTS:

  • Must be at least 18 years of age

  • Must have a high school diploma or GED

  • Must have a valid Driver's License, in good standing

  • Have the ability to meet all health standards of the education program enrolled in, including immunization status and health screenings

  • Successfully complete the pre-employment screening which includes Criminal Background checks, drug testing, academic/cognitive screening, and a Physical Ability Test (PAT)

Why Choose GMR? Global Medical Response (https://www.globalmedicalresponse.com/careers) (GMR) and its family of solutions are dedicated to delivering compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services. Here you’ll embark on meaningful work that will make an impact on you and the customers we serve. View the stories on how our employees provide care to the world at www.AtaMomentsNotice.com .

GMR’s Core Behaviors —keep care at the center, raise your hand, seek to understand, find a way together and be accountable—unite our teams and set us apart in emergency medical services.

EEO Statement

Global Medical Response and its family of companies are an Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes supporting veterans and providing reasonable accommodations (https://www.globalmedicalresponse.com/docs/site/non-discrimination) for individuals with a disability.

Fixed Rate Position: $16.00/hr.

Check out our careers site benefits page (https://careers.gmr.net/benefits) to learn more about our benefit options.

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How this job compares

Set against the 832 open Emergency Medical Technician jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.

Pay
  • This posting$16/hr
  • Illinois median$20–26/hr32 hourly ranges
  • US median$21–26/hr356 hourly ranges

This rate, $16/hr, is 29% below the Illinois median midpoint ($23/hr) — in the lowest quarter of Emergency Medical Technician hourly ranges in Illinois.

Openings
Olive Jobs lists 38 open Emergency Medical Technician jobs in Illinois and 832 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
Hiring the most in Illinois
Experience
Emergency Medical Technician postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median (217 postings).
Education
This posting asks for a high school diploma; 467 of the 832 open Emergency Medical Technician jobs (56%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.

Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.

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