Community Paramedic Ground Transport

Job Description:

The Community Paramedic evaluates and treats patients, usually in their own home based on a previous diagnosis and under the direction of advanced providers, offering clinical expertise and education within their specialty and areas of study. They collaborate with Tele Hospitalists, physicians, APPs, pharmacists, respiratory therapists, and patient placement teams to manage care of patients in their home environment and for transfers.

The Community Paramedic is expected to be an extension of Intermountain’s Brick and Mortar services into the patients home, treating the patient for potentially advanced or complicated conditions in a place where they are most comfortable.

Essential Functions Treats patients based on their diagnosis and medical direction in the patients home Assist patients with medication administration and education

Coordinates all mobile imaging, labs and orders

Organize logistics for provider and admission order sets for Hospital Level Care at Home patients

Clinical expert in problem solving for home equipment, meds and needs to ensure high level care is achieved

Definitive resource for all ancillary services, providers, and patients

Assist with education for patients and provides health-related educational opportunities

Evaluates patients for various social determinants of health

Builds standing relationships with patients who are seen in multiple successive days

Skills

Patient Care & Coordination Medical Surgical Medicine Clinical Experience Clinical Evaluations Care Planning Patient Advocacy Critical Thinking Resource Coordination Patient-Provider Relationship Building

Minimum Qualifications Successful completion of Paramedic course

Must obtain Paramedic license in state of operation within 120 days Basic Life Support (BLS) for Healthcare Providers Current valid driver license in good standing

Three years of clinical care experience.

Preferred Qualifications Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Transport Professional Advanced Trauma Course (TPATC) or Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) Certification Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification Paramedic National Registry Certification Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) Certification (must obtain within 120 days of hire and maintain throughout employment)
Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) Certification (must obtain within 120 days of hire and maintain throughout employment)
Attendance License (Before start of employment)

Physical Requirements All EMS medical crew members may be subject to certain work conditions while functioning in the full capacity of their position. These work conditions include, but are not limited to: performance of essential job responsibilities in a moving, ground ambulance, hospital as well as the potential to do so in an outdoor environment (inclement weather, extremes of temperature, accident scenes, steep terrain, back country, etc.),

exposure to noise, vibration, and dehydrating environment of a ground ambulance, exposure to patients with known or unknown infectious disease in an enclosed space.

Ongoing need for employee to see and read information, labels, assess patient needs, operate monitors, identify equipment and supplies.

Frequent interactions with patient care providers, patients, and visitors that require employee to verbally communicate as well as hear and understand spoken information, alarms, needs, and issues quickly and accurately, particularly during emergency situations.

Manual dexterity of hands and fingers to manipulate complex and delicate equipment with precision and accuracy. This includes frequent computer use and typing for documenting patient care, accessing needed information, medication preparation, etc.

Expected to lift and utilize full range of movement to transfer patients. Will also bend to retrieve, lift, and carry supplies and equipment. Typically includes items of varying weights, up to and including heavy items.

Need to walk and assist with transporting/ambulating patients and obtaining and distributing supplies and equipment. This includes pushing/pulling gurneys and portable equipment, including heavy items. Often required to…