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.

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.

• 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

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

• 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.

• 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)

• 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…