EMS Driver

Job Title: EMS Driver

Department: Emergency Services

Location: St. Lawrence Region

Hours Per Week: Per Diem

Schedule: Variable

The ambulance operator is responsible to provide high quality emergency transportation to sick and injured patients.

• Responds to calls when dispatched
• Inspect the ambulance before each shift, checking the fuel, oil, transmission fluid, wiper fluid, and coolant, reporting any needed repairs.
• Check the first aid and medical supplies inventory levels before each shift and ensure the ambulance is well stocked
• Assist patients onto gurneys and loading them into and out of the ambulance
• Keep inside and outside of ambulance clean
• Sanitize the ambulance and safely dispose of any medical waste and soiled linens
• Administer first aid such as bandaging, splinting, and administering oxygen.
• Maintain driving log with daily entries and noting patients’ names and addresses, travel times, mileage and service performed
• Report accident facts to medical personnel and police officers, when necessary

• Minimum two years’ driving an ambulance preferred

• High School diploma or GED

• AHA BLS
• NYS Driver’s License

M - Medium Work - Exerting 20 to 50 pounds of force occasionally, and/or 10 to 25 pounds of force frequently, and/or greater than negligible up to 10 pounds of force constantly to move objects;
Requires frequent walking, standing or squatting.

$17.00 - $18.00