Paramedic

Overview

Job Summary and Responsibilities: As a Paramedic, you will provide advanced emergency medical care and transport to critically ill or injured patients in pre-hospital and inter-facility settings. Every day you will rapidly assess scenes, evaluate conditions, and administer life-saving interventions, while safely operating emergency vehicles and documenting care. To be successful, you will demonstrate expert clinical skills, exceptional critical thinking under stress, and compassionate communication, ensuring optimal patient outcomes.

• Maintains established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement program and safety standards.
• Performs patient systems assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner.
• Enters patient data into computerized patient care reporting system so that there are no deficiencies.
• Performs direct patient care and implements patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner while administering medications and performing procedures consistent with EMT certification.
• Administers medications and performs procedures consistent with Paramedic certification and selected S-SV EMS treatment protocols.
• Participates in problem identification and patient care planning.

• High School Graduate and six months experience as a paramedic with an accredited EMS agency or Fire Department. Hiring manager may consider the applicant’s field internship as qualifying experience if the preceptorship was completed at a Dignity Health North Service Area facility and successfully completed, upon hire.
• Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic: CA, upon hire.
• Basic Life Support (CPR): upon hire.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support: upon hire (Must be through the American Heart Association).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support: upon hire (Must be through the American Heart Association).
• CDMC, upon hire.
• Certified Ambulance Driver: CA, upon hire.
• Driver's License: CA, upon hire.
• Local Paramedic Accredited, upon hire.

For more than 70 years, Mercy Medical Center Redding has offered comprehensive health care in the North State, providing acute care and a full range of medical services. The 267-bed hospital offers major medical services including a Level II Trauma Center as well as specialized Cardiovascular Care, Stroke Care, Orthopedics, Neurological Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Care, Maternity Care, and da Vinci Robotic Surgery.

It is the sole provider of obstetrical services, along with the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Shasta County. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a member of the Dignity Health system and is a sister facility to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Mercy Medical Center Mt.

Shasta. As one of the area’s largest not-for-profit employers, we are proud to give back to the community by providing many programs and services to benefit overall health.

One Community. One Mission. One California

$43.12 - $49.71 /hour