<p>Annualized Potential Starting Earnings AEMT of $65,000.00</p> <p>The EMT will be responsible for providing Basic Life Support (BLS) patient care and ambulance transportation.</p> <p>Education:</p> <p>High School Diploma or GED</p> <p>Licenses and Certifications:</p> <p>Driver's License</p> <p>EMT - A</p> <p>Healthcare Provider (CPR)</p> <p>Qualifications:</p> <p>Knowledge: -Emergency clinical practices, procedures, and protocol</p> <p>Technical Skills: -Diagnosing and treating patients -Exercising judgement, dexterity, and physical coordination -Preparing clear and concise reports -Driving emergency vehicles</p> <p>Behavioral and Physical Skills: -Act calmly and quickly in emergency situations -Work independently as part of a team, sometimes alongside emergency fire and police units -Create and maintain a positive and cooperative working environment in stressful situations -Work during odd hours and for extended periods of time, sometimes outdoors and in adverse weather conditions -Work with much standing, bending, and kneeling -Work with a partner in lifting patients whose weight occasionally exceeds 200 pounds -Avoid or minimize health risks from exposure to ill patients.</p> <p>Georgia EMT-A license required</p> <p>Statement Of Employment Philosophy</p> <p>Being a part of Tanner Health System is more than a job, it is a promise we make to treat every patient with exceptional service every time they walk through our doors. Service excellence is the foundation of our organizational culture and the expectations we all set for each other, our patients, physicians and our community. All employees agree to abide by a set of service standards. These standards are the promise we make to provide the best care possible, and represent our beliefs, values and who we strive to become. We each commit to making Tanner Health System a great place for our employees to work, for patients to receive care and for physicians to practice medicine.</p> <p>Functions</p> <p>Area of Responsibilities</p> <p>Provides emergency and non-emergency ambulance operation in conjunction with a partner, demonstrating excellent driving judgement and due to regard for public safety during operation and positioning of unit.</p> <p>Responds to all assigned calls in the most appropriate, safe, and efficient manner to quickly assess the scene and request other help if needed.</p> <p>Provides BLS patient care in accordance with established procedures and prescribe local protocols and clinical guidelines. Diagnoses and treats patients with appropriate techniques, resources, and equipment.</p> <p>May work with a Paramedic in an ALS operation, providing overall care in the areas of patient assessment, packaging and transport.</p> <p>Completes appropriate medical records and transportation reports.</p> <p>Maintains a thorough working knowledge of current EMT standards to care, including equipment and use.</p> <p>Maintains a thorough working knowledge of local geography, including mapping, street, and grid book systems.</p> <p>Maintains units and equipment in a clean, organized and ready condition after each response.</p> <p>Ensures proper fuel, fluid, and tire pressure levels at all times. Reports equipment damage or malfunction as prescribed.</p> <p>Completes all station duties and maintains crew quarters in neat and serviceable conditions.</p> <p>Compliance Statement</p> <p>Employee performs within the prescribed limits of Tanner Health System's Ethics and Compliance program. Is responsible to detect, observe, and report compliance variances to their immediate supervisor, the Compliance Officer, or the Hotline.</p> <p>Required Knowledge & Skills</p> <p>Education: High School Diploma or GED</p> <p>Experience: No prior work experience required.</p> <p>Licenses and Certifications</p> <p>DRIVER'S LICENSE</p> <p>EMT - A</p> <p>HEALTHCARE PROVIDER (CPR)</p> <p>Qualifications</p> <p>Knowledge: -Emergency clinical practices, procedures, and protocol</p> <p>Technical Skills: -Diagnosing and treating patients -Exercising judgement, dexterity, and physical coordination -Preparing clear and concise reports -Driving emergency vehicles</p> <p>Behavioral and Physical Skills: -Act calmly and quickly in emergency situations -Work independently as part of a team, sometimes alongside emergency fire and police units -Create and maintain a positive and cooperative working environment in stressful situations -Work during odd hours and for extended periods of time, sometimes outdoors and in adverse weather conditions -Work with much standing, bending, and kneeling -Work with a partner in lifting patients whose weight occasionally exceeds 200 pounds -Avoid or minimize health risks from exposure to ill patients.</p> <p>Georgia EMT-A license required.</p> <p>Definitions</p> <p>The EMT will be responsible for providing Basic Life Support (BLS) patient care and ambulance transportation.</p> <p>Position Responsibilities</p> <p>Contact with Others: Requires frequent contact with many persons at different levels inside and outside of the organization to carry out organization policies and programs and obtain willing acceptance, consent, or action.</p> <p>Effect of Error: Probable errors may be serious and involve losses such as improper costs, overpayment, waste of material, damage to equipment, and delay in processing work. Effect usually confined within the organization. Most of work not subject to direct verification or check. Regularly works with some confidential data such as account, salaries, patient medical records, which if disclosed might have adverse internal or external effects.</p> <p>People Management Responsibilities</p> <p>Supervisory Responsibility: Regularly uses assistance of aide or helper or leads the work of one to four co-employees; checks performance of work assigned as to accuracy and time, doing same work, it's more difficult aspects, or other related work</p> <p>Work Environment/Physical Effort</p> <p>Mental Demands: A wide variety of complex, changing problems, most of which cannot be anticipated, and there is little existing precedent. Requires careful analysis for the effect of solution on other activities and overall coordination in the organization. Accuracy is essential and not subject to further check. Work involves high degree of resourcefulness, independent judgment, initiative, and long-range planning to achieve major functional objectives.</p> <p>Working Conditions: Extreme - Constantly involved in exposure to dirt, odors, noise, or some work is performed with exposure to temperature/weather extremes/occupational risk and probability of coming into contact with blood borne pathogens, other potentially infectious diseases, or biomedical/bio-hazardous materials.</p> <p>Working Conditions Aspects for Immunizations</p> <p>Performs tasks involving contact with blood, blood-contaminated body fluids, other body fluids, or sharps (needles): Yes</p> <p>Directly works with Patients less than 12 months of age: Yes</p> <p>Physical Effort: Considerable physical effort - Lifts, carries, or handles medium weight equipment, materials, or supplies most of day. Occasional physical effort with heavy objects (over 60 lbs.). Works in reaching or strained positions frequently.</p> <p>Physical Aspects</p> <p>Bending: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Typing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Manual Dexterity -- picking, pinching with fingers etc.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Feeling (Touch) -- determining temperature, texture, by touching: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Hearing: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.</p> <p>Reaching -- above shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Reaching -- below shoulder: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Visual: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.</p> <p>Color Vision: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Speaking: Constant = 67% - 100% of the time.</p> <p>Standing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Balancing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Walking: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Crawling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Running - in response to an emergency: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Lifting up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Lifting 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Lifting over 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Handling -- seizing, holding, grasping: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Carrying: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Climbing: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Kneeling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Squatting: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Tasting: Not required</p> <p>Smelling: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Driving -- Utility vehicles such as golf carts, Gators, ATV, riding lawnmowers, skid steer, aerial lift: Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time</p> <p>Driving -- Class C vehicles: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Driving -- CDL class vehicles: Not required</p> <p>N95 Respirator usage (PPE): Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Hazmat suit usage (PPE): Occasional = 1% - 33% of the time</p> <p>Pushing/Pulling -- up to 25 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Pushing/Pulling -- 25 to 60 lbs.: Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p> <p>Pushing/Pulling -- over 60 lbs. : Frequent = 34% - 66% of the time</p>