Paramedic Air Transport

Paramedic Air Transport – UnityPoint Health

Posted 2 days ago.

Shift: Full Time;
Rotating Days/Nights/Weekends

• Area of Interest:
  Allied Health
• FTE/Hours per pay period: 0.9
• Department:
  Air Ambulance
  - Meth
• Job

Join UnityPoint Health’s Life Flight team and bring your skills to the skies. As an Air Transport Paramedic, you’ll deliver advanced, compassionate care in hospital, out‑of‑hospital, aircraft, and ground ambulance settings. Working side‑by‑side with physicians, nurses, and fellow caregivers, you’ll play a critical role in assessing, treating, and supporting patients and families during life‑changing moments.

• Provide high‑level patient care under the Scope of Practice for Iowa Paramedics and Critical Care Paramedics.
• Collaborate across disciplines to ensure safe, seamless care.
• Educate and support patients and families while leading by example.
• Uphold UnityPoint Health’s FOCUS Values, AIDET+, and Service Excellence standards in every interaction.

Your expertise ensures safe transport, improved outcomes, and peace of mind for patients and families. This is more than a job—it’s a chance to represent UnityPoint Health with professionalism and compassion while making a real difference in critical care transport.

At UnityPoint Health, you matter. We’re proud to be recognized as a Top 150 Place to Work in Healthcare by Becker's Healthcare for several years in a row for our commitment to our team members.

Our competitive Total Rewards program offers benefits options that align with your needs and priorities, no matter what life stage you’re in. Here are just a few:

• Paid time off, parental leave, 401K matching and an employee recognition program.
• Dental and health insurance, paid holidays, short and long‑term disability and more. We even offer pet insurance for your four‑legged family members.
• Early access to earned wages with Daily Pay, tuition reimbursement to help further your career, and adoption assistance to help you grow your family.

• Assess the need of patients and families, providing appropriate teaching and making the necessary referrals to provide continuity of care.
• Develop an individual plan of care using a collaborative approach with the patient/family and health care team.
• Promptly complete documentation to assure an accurate legal record of patient’s care.
• Deliver high quality care utilizing the nursing process while demonstrating knowledge and clinical skills of the specialty required on assigned unit in accordance with established policies, procedures and standards of care.
• Utilize holistic approach (considering diversity, biopsychosocial, spiritual, educational, safety, and related criteria) appropriate to the age of the patients and families served in the assigned service area.
• Delegate and provide direction for other healthcare team members within their scope of practice and hold them accountable for their involvement in the plan of care.
• Utilize critical thinking in developing nursing interventions while maintaining responsibility and accountability for the knowledge of conditions of assigned patients.
• Assess and choose teaching strategies appropriate to the patient’s and their families’ age specific needs, culture, gender, readiness to learn, and level of comprehension.

Education:

• Graduate of an accredited Paramedic Program

Licenses /

Certifications:

• Current licensure in good standing to practice as a Paramedic in Iowa.
• Critical Care Paramedic (CCP) required upon hire.
• Must possess and maintain current Basic Life Support (BLS), Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS), Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) and Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) certification or obtain certification within three (3) months from date of hire.
• Approved Trauma Course (required upon hire).
• FP‑C (required within 2 years of hire).
• Valid driver’s license when driving any vehicle for work-related reasons.

Experience:

• Minimum 3-5 years full-time with high volume ALS/911 service.

Other:

• Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.
• Work may require travel to other UPH facilities our bases of operation. May drive a UPH vehicle, rental or own vehicle.
• Ability to perform functions of the job in all conditions of the environment including weather extremes, noise, vibration and aviation (fumes, flicker, altitude, turbulence).

• Seniority level:
  Mid-Senior level
• Employment type:
  
  Full-time
• Job function:
  Health Care Provider
• Industry: Hospitals and Health Care

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