Job Summary:

The LifeFlight Ground Transport Paramedic is an integral part of a comprehensive community-based EMS system, designed to provide both high-acuity urgent interfacility transports to a higher-level care and scheduled non-urgent transport of patients from VUMC hospitals to post-acute care facilities or home. LifeFlight Ground EMS also responds to requests for mutual aid to support any community 911 or hospital system during times of natural disaster, mass casualty, or other extreme circumstances. Each LifeFlight Ground transport base is specifically aligned in communities requiring direct support of VUMC hospitals or partnering facilities; however, the entire program responds to requests across a multi-state region.

The paramedic is responsible for assessment, treatment, and transport of all types of patients and conditions, and must be able to provide the level of care required to match the patient's needs (ALS, BLS or Specialty Care). The paramedic must initiate and or adapt patient care plans according to scope of practice requirements and LifeFlight approved treatment protocols and medical direction. The paramedic is responsible for continuously reassessing and adjusting care as conditions change with the goal of always optimizing outcomes. The paramedic is expected to always deliver exceptional compassion, professionalism, patient care, and customer service. Effective communications and close collaboration with EMS team members, hospital staff, communicators, and other key stake holders is essential.

The paramedic will communicate with all medical personnel and facilities' staff in a respectful manner while obtaining instructions or feedback for transport and hand-off. The paramedic will communicate clearly and concisely via radio to relay critical and time sensitive patient information to receiving facilities. The paramedic will complete all required documentation appropriately and in a timely manner. The paramedic will always operate an emergency vehicle and equipment in a safe and effective manner. The paramedic will work closely with their teammates to check, restock, inventory and clean emergency vehicles and supplies as to stay ready for a timely response. The paramedic will stay in good standing with state and institutional requirements.

Your Shift:

• Full Time; Three 12-hour rotating days/nights shifts per week

• Self-scheduling is offered through VandyWorks

Signing Bonus:

• $10,000 Signing Bonus for eligible new hires. (Former employees must be separated from Vanderbilt at least one year to be qualified.)

• $5,000 relocation stipend for eligible new hires.

Key Responsibilities:

• Actively participates with other members of the healthcare team to provide direct patient care.

• Effectively works as part of a two-person team to safely treat and transport patients to appropriate facilities.

• Transports patients via various modes of transportation while providing quality ALS and Critical Care management to all ages.

• Identifies patient and unit problems and finds solutions to resolve problems and follows through to implement solutions.

• Effectively communicates patient handover to the health care team.

• The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Department/Unit Summary

LifeFlight Team is comprised of two major divisions - Air Medical Transport and Ground Medical Transport. The Ground Medical team is currently comprised of more than 250 staff members spread across multiple divisions (ALS/BLS Ground Transport, Critical Care Ground Transport, Event Medicine, Emergency Communications and Transport Coordination). The LifeFlight program is headquartered in Nashville, TN and currently operates multiple satellite locations across the state with more than 20 ambulances, nine helicopters, and one airplane. Visit vulifeflight.com for more information.

• At LifeFlight we foster and appreciate the rich experience and expertise cultivated by a highly trained, compassionate, diverse workforce. Be prepared to share all that you have to offer and grow from the collective knowledge of a globally recognized institution.

• At LifeFlight you will have multiple educational opportunities to grow as a healthcare professional and interact with some of the best and brightest minds in emergency medicine.

• The ground division is responsible for making more than 10,000 transports a year.

• The ground EMS division is primarily responsible for performing urgent high acuity interfacility transport to a higher level of care or specialty care facilities.

• The ground EMS division is additionally responsible for transporting ALS/BLS and Specialty Care patients discharging from Vanderbilt University Medical Center facilities to post-acute care facilities or home for continuation of care.

• The ground EMS division is responds to request for mutual aid from community 911 and hospital systems in times of natural disaster, mass casualty event or other extreme circumstances.

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Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded and your abilities challenged. It is a place where your diversity -- of culture, thinking, learning and leading -- is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.

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POSITION QUALIFICATIONS:

Education:

• High School Diploma/GED (Required)

Experience:

• 1 years of relevant experience (Preferred)

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION:

• TN Paramedic License (Required by first day of employment)

• TN Drivers License or if resident of another state, must have valid driver's license in that state.

• BLS CPR (Required)

• ACLS (Required)

• PALS (Required)

• PHTLS must be obtained within 90 days of hire

• Emergency Vehicle Operations Training and VKF training is required (Can be taken during the orientation period)

Additional Qualification Information:

1. Medical crew members must be able to twist, bend and provide patient care in confined spaces.

2. Must be able to tolerate stressors of transport, including, but not limited to, excessive motion, vibration, and extreme temperatures.

3. Must maintain weight so as to fit into the seat belts / shoulder harnesses as provided by the aircraft or ambulance manufacturer without modification to those safety devices.

Core Accountabilities:

• Organizational Impact: Delivers job responsibilities that impact own job area/team with some guidance.

• Problem Solving/ Complexity of work: Gathers and analyzes data to solve problems that arise with little or no precedent.

• Breadth of Knowledge: Applies advanced job knowledge and has developed a breadth of skills in other areas.

• Team Interaction: Provides informal guidance and support to less experienced team members.

Physical Requirements/Strengths needed & Physical Demands:

• Heavy Work category requiring exertion of 50 to 100 lbs. of force occasionally and/or up to 20 to 50 lbs. of force frequently and/or up to 10 to 20 lbs. of force continually to move objects.

Movement

• Occasional: Sitting: Remaining in seated position

• Occasional: Carrying over 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.

• Occasional: Bending/Stooping: Trunk bending downward and forward by bending spine at waist requiring full use of lower extremities and back muscles

• Occasional: Climbing: Ascending or descending stairs/ramps using feet and legs and/or hands and arms.

• Occasional: Kneeling:Bending legs at knees to come to rest on knee or knees.

• Occasional: Crouching/Squatting: Bending body downward and forward by bending legs and spine.Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.

• Occasional: Reaching above shoulders: Extending arms in any direction above shoulders.

• Frequent: Standing: Remaining on one's feet without moving.

• Frequent: Walking: Moving about on foot.

• Frequent: Lifting under 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects under 35 lbs from one level to another

• Frequent: Lifting over 35 lbs: Raising and lowering objects from one level to another, includes upward pulling over 35 lbs, with help of coworkers or assistive device

• Frequent: Carrying under 35 lbs: Transporting an object holding in hands, arms or shoulders, with help of coworkers or assistive device.

• Frequent: Push/Pull: Exerting force to move objects away from or toward.

• Frequent: Balancing: Maintaining body equilibrium to prevent falling when walking, standing, crouching or maneuvering self, patient and equipment simultaneously while working in large and small spaces

• Frequent: Reaching below shoulders: Extending arms in any direction below shoulders.

• Frequent: Handling: Seizing, holding, grasping, turning or otherwise working with hand or hands.

• Frequent: Fingering: Picking, pinching, gripping, working primarily with fingers requiring fine manipulation.

• Frequent: Bimanual Dexterity: Requiring the use of both hands.

Sensory

• Frequent: Communication: Expressing or exchanging written/verbal/electronic information.

• Continuous: Auditory: Perceiving the variances of sounds, tones and pitches and able to focus on single source of auditory information

• Continuous: Vision: Clarity of near vision at 20 inches or less and far vision at 20 feet or more with depth perception, peripheral vision, color vision.

• Continuous: Smell: Ability to detect and identify odors.

• Continuous: Feeling: Ability to perceive size, shape, temperature, texture by touch with fingertips.

Environmental Conditions

• Occasional: Chemicals and Gasses: Medications, cleaning chemicals, oxygen, other medical gases used in work area.

• Occasional: Climate: Ability to withstand exposure to atmospheric extremes including heat, cold, humidity, and barometric pressure changes.

• Frequent: Pathogens: Risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens and other contagious illnesses.

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