Paramedic Wilson

Job Title

Paramedic 2 – $10,000 Sign‑on Bonus! Wilson Co. (Vanderbilt Health)

Company: Vanderbilt Health
Location: Lebanon, TN
Employment Type: Full Time
Date Posted: 11/26/2025
Job Categories: Healthcare, Other, Information Technology, Transportation, Quality Control, Research & Development, Medical

Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center:
Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated.

Vanderbilt’s mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

Independently works off assessment skills to activate patient care protocols to deliver patient care within the Tennessee paramedic scope of practice within the defined Vanderbilt paramedic scope of practice. Responsible for triage care in the field as well as the Emergency Department. Responsible for effective communication to ensure safe and quality patient care in a paramedic team, transport and handover. Shifts are variable with 12‑hour rotations, including night, weekend and holidays (7a‑7p, 8a‑8p, 9a‑9p, 7p‑7a weekdays;

7a‑7p, 7p‑7a weekends).
Sign‑on bonus: $10,000 (not applicable to current VUMC staff or former staff who have worked for VUMC in the past twelve months; only available for full‑time positions).

• Actively participates with other members of the healthcare team to provide direct patient care.
• Transports patients via various modes of transportation while providing quality ALS and Critical Care management to all ages.
• Responds to emergency requests within Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt‑sponsored or other contracted events.
• Utilizes the problem‑solving model to independently resolve patient problems and follow through with HCT to implement solutions.
• Identifies patient and unit problems and finds solutions to resolve them and follows through to implement solutions.
• Effectively communicates patient handover to the health‑care team.
• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

• Ventilator Management (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate ventilator management in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.
• Critical Thinking (Novice):
  Displays clarity, accuracy, precision, consistency, relevance, and sound evidence in the successful completion of tasks and projects. Demonstrates rational and disciplined thought as manifested in results.
• Airway Establishing (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate airway establishing in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments. Has retained equivalent knowledge from past experience.
• Medication Management (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate medication management in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Conducts a comprehensive and systematic assessment of a person’s ability to comply with a prescribed medication regime, reviews medication history, and demonstrates adequate acumen to recognize problems and contact the patient’s primary care provider.
• Assessing, Intervening & Stabilizing Patients (Novice):
  Possesses sufficient fundamental proficiency to successfully demonstrate assessing, intervening and stabilizing patients in practical applications of moderate difficulty. Generally works under the direction of others while accomplishing assignments.

• Supporting Colleagues:
  Develops self and others; continuously improves own skills by identifying development opportunities. Builds and maintains…