Emergency Medical Technician Shifts

Tufts Medicine is a leading integrated health system bringing together the best of academic and community health care to deliver exceptional, connected and accessible care experiences to consumers across Massachusetts. Comprised of Tufts Medical Center, Lowell General Hospital, Melrose/Wakefield Healthcare, an expansive home care network and a large clinically integrated physician network, Tufts Medicine has more than 15,000 dedicated employees and caregivers.

Lowell General Hospital is hiring qualified Emergency Medical Technicians!

At Tufts Medicine
- Lowell General Hospital, we’re more than a health system – we’re a community of the brightest minds and the biggest hearts in healthcare. We combine academic innovation with compassion and community. If that excites you, then you belong with us.

• Competitive salaries & benefits
• Medical, Dental and Vision benefits start day one
• 403(b) Retirement with company match
• Tuition Reimbursement Opportunities for career growth

Direct patient care contact in the prehospital setting, Emergency Department, hospital patient care units, and during ambulance transport. Ability to accept patient care directives/orders from hospital physicians, nursing staff, and Lowell General Hospital EMS leadership. Cares for patients and conducts clinically appropriate patient care and ambulance transport in accordance with established hospital policies and Massachusetts Statewide Treatment Protocols. Understands and accepts that all responsibilities are essential to job function.

Hours:

40 hours/week
- Days/Evenings/Overnights (Variable) Rotating Weekend/Holiday shifts required

Location:

Lowell General Hospital - 295 Varnum Ave
- Lowell, MA

• 1. Completion of accredited Emergency Medical Technical-Basic program.
• 2. National Registered EMT (NREMT).
• 3. Basic Life Support (BLS) certification.
• 4. Massachusetts certified Emergency Medical Technician-Basic.
• 5. Massachusetts issued driver’s license.

• 1. BCLS Instructor.
• 2. Incident Command System (ICS) course 100.
• 3. Three (3) years of related experience.

• 1. Responds to a wide range of transport situations. Responds to patient’s urgent care needs and interfaces with appropriate clinicians in the patient’s home with the goal of avoiding unnecessary hospitalization.
• 2. Performs detailed assessments, diagnostic tests, administers treatments, and contacts online medical control for patient’s care and treatment. Obtains medical history and monitors vital signs during patient contact. Completes clinically accurate patient care documentation.
• 3. Prepares patients for transport and clinically monitors patient to maintain stability.
• 4. Administers skilled care to patients being transported between hospitals as directed by hospital policy, statewide treatment protocols and physicians.
• 5. May participate in creating care plans with patient’s physicians, including referrals to other care providers.
• 6. Complies with all health, safety, and privacy regulations.
• 7. Routinely accesses and utilizes hospital EMS leadership for any circumstance where advanced direction is needed or may assist with proper execution of job responsibilities
• 8. Complies with performance improvement clinical benchmarks.
• 9. May perform home visits (scheduled, unscheduled, urgent), assessments and treatments according to MIH protocols and procedures.
• 10. Assists in emergency department and other hospital patient care units in a patient technician capacity.
• 11. Completes patient charts using medical record software (Epic EMR).
• 12. Demonstrates effective and positive teamwork and initiative during EMS operations, within the department and the EMS community.
• 13. Works collaboratively and in…