Job description
Job Description:
Base Clinical Lead - Paramedic
Summary : The Paramedic Lead is responsible for ensuring smooth day-to-day operations by facilitating communication between field staff and leadership, monitoring system status and making time-critical decisions, reporting daily issues and achievements to leadership, acting as a role model to field employees, and providing coaching opportunities when standards are not upheld.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/DUTIES
QUALIFICATIONS Experience:
Education:
Skills:
Credentials/Licenses:
WORKING CONDITIONS AND MENTAL/PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Working Conditions:
Physical Demands:
Mental Requirements:
Why Choose Air Evac Lifeteam?
Global Medical Response and its family of companies are an Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes supporting veterans and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with a disability.
More Information about this Job:
Check out our careers site benefits page to learn more about our benefit options.
Base Clinical Lead - Paramedic
Summary : The Paramedic Lead is responsible for ensuring smooth day-to-day operations by facilitating communication between field staff and leadership, monitoring system status and making time-critical decisions, reporting daily issues and achievements to leadership, acting as a role model to field employees, and providing coaching opportunities when standards are not upheld.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS/DUTIES
- Perform the required daily functions of a Paramedic Basic and be readily available to assist field personnel.
- Monitor, communicate with, and support field staff in their tasks and objectives.
- Assess each call situation to determine best course of action and make or approve all medical decisions of the unit.
- Act as a liaison between field staff, management, communications centers, healthcare facilities, and patient families.
- Work collaboratively with all allied health and public safety personnel to ensure excellent customer service and the best possible patient care.
- Ensure appropriate system status management goals are being upheld by monitoring system status and engaging directly with the communications center to pre-assign, reassign, and divert crews to provide optimal efficiency during calls.
- Ensure that all in-service units are in a serviceable condition and oversee proper/timely deployment of field staff. Monitor building, unit, and operations sites for cleanliness.
- Keep thorough and complete records of all issued equipment and be accountable for its return at the end of employee shifts.
- Assist road crews and supervisory staff with proper Patient Care Report (PCR) transmission.
- Ensure that staff is adhering to GMR protocols and properly resolve/escalate issues to the appropriate personnel.
- Promptly report and escalate any workplace injuries, vehicle incidents, and damage to property or equipment.
- Comply with all company policies and local, state, and federal employment laws while providing patient care according to clinical protocols and safety requirements.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS Experience:
- Minimum 2 years of Paramedic experience.
- Some leadership experience preferred.
Education:
- High School Diploma or equivalent (GED).
- Some advanced education preferred.
Skills:
- Strong leadership and decision-making skills.
- Strong listening and comprehension skills.
- Ability to adapt to quickly evolving situations.
- Effective oral and written communication skills.
Credentials/Licenses:
- State Paramedic Certification.
- State Driver's License with driving record in compliance with GMR's Safety & Driving policy (proof required if conditional employment is made).
- Ambulance Driver's License.
- BLS, ACLS, PALS/PEPP, BTLS/PHTLS Certifications.
WORKING CONDITIONS AND MENTAL/PHYSICAL DEMANDS
Working Conditions:
- Day, night, weekend, and holiday shifts with extended workdays.
- Long periods inside the ambulance.
- May work indoors or outdoors with exposure to weather.
- Routine exposure to moderate noise levels.
- May periodically work in poorly lit environments in a moving vehicle.
Physical Demands:
- Moderate to extended amounts of sitting, standing, walking, pushing, pulling, bending, squatting, kneeling, twisting, carrying, and climbing.
- Routine lifting of more than 200 lbs. with assistance.
- Visual identification of color-coded items.
- Must be able to wear a face mask or respirator with proper fit for extended periods when required.
Mental Requirements:
- Critical thinking skills using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems.
- Fatigue, high pressure, exposure to stressful situations.
- Compassion and empathy.
Why Choose Air Evac Lifeteam?
- Air Evac Lifeteam is one of GMR's family of solutions as a leader in helicopter air ambulance services.
- Global Medical Response's (GMR) teams deliver compassionate, quality medical care, primarily in the areas of emergency and patient relocation services.
- www.AtaMomentsNotice.com provides a resource for candidates to view the stories on how our employees provide care to the world.
- Learn how our values are at the core of our services and vital to how we approach care and check out our comprehensive benefit options at GlobalMedicalResponse.com/Careers .
- To learn more about GMR and how our values are at the core of our services and vital to how we approach care, visit www.GlobalMedicalResponse.com .
Global Medical Response and its family of companies are an Equal Opportunity Employer, which includes supporting veterans and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with a disability.
More Information about this Job:
Check out our careers site benefits page to learn more about our benefit options.
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