EMT or Paramedic - Knoxville TN
On-siteKnoxville, Tennessee, United States
Knoxville, Tennessee, United StatesOn-siteFull TimeLicense Or Certification
Full TimeLicense Or Certification
Job Summary
Respond to emergency and non-emergency ambulance calls to render medical attention and transport patients safely. Provide care within the scope of practice under established protocols while maintaining ambulance cleanliness and readiness. Comply with corporate policies, keep all certifications current, and communicate accurately with patients, providers, and facility staff. Work in a high-paced environment requiring physical stamina for lifting patients and operating EMS equipment. Full-time and part-time shifts available with guaranteed overtime and performance-based pay incentives.
Required Qualifications
- EMT-B, I, or AEMT or Paramedic certification
- Valid State and/or NREMT License at an EMT-B, I, or AEMT or Paramedic level
- Current CPR card
- Valid Driver's License
- Safe driving record (pass MVR)
- Ability to talk constantly, both in person and on the phone
- Close visual acuity to perform activities such as patient care activities, preparing and analyzing data and figures, viewing a computer terminal, extensive reading, visual inspection of small writing and/or operation of office machines and EMS related equipment
- Ability to speak English constantly
- Ability to read English
- Ability to remain in a stationary position constantly (approximately 80% of the time)
- Ability to type or write constantly (approximately 15% of the time)
- Ability to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
- Ability to occasionally move about in the ambulance to access the patient, provide patient care and retrieve and use equipment
- Ability to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine, phone, scanner, and computer printer
- Ability to operate EMS equipment such as blood pressure cuff, glucometer, EKG machine, pulse oximeter, etc.
- Ability to function well in a high-paced and at times stressful environment
- Ability to bend, kneel, crouch, push, pull, reaching, lifting, squat, twist, carrying and climb stairs to access a patient and or equipment inside cramped spaces such as the back of an ambulance
- Ability to routinely lift more than 200 lbs. with assistance, from ground level to move or manipulate a patient, on a backboard or load a patient and stretcher into an ambulance
- Ability to grasp paperwork and or small equipment such as glucose test strips
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