Emergency Medical Technician

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Summary

The Emergency Medical Technician serves as a crucial emergency response medical professional, providing immediate medical care to victims of accidents, violence, and sudden illnesses like cardiac arrests or strokes. This role involves providing pre-hospital and intra-hospital advanced life support care from the moment of contact until the patient is handed over to the accepting medical facility.

Job Duties

• Represent the ambulance service at public service functions, expositions, and community events, providing ambulance standby services as needed.
• Document full assessments and treatments using patient care charting software.
• Deliver care for patients in psychiatric, medical, and traumatic crises, offering medical, traumatic, and therapeutic services.
• Work as a member of a two-person ambulance crew responding to both emergency and non-emergency calls.
• Operate advanced life support equipment such as bag valve mask resuscitators, external defibrillators, and electrocardiograms.
• Assess the nature and extent of injury or illness to establish and prioritize necessary medical procedures including stabilization, immobilization, lifting, and transportation of victims from the scene of any incident.
• Respond to dispatcher instructions while driving and operating specially equipped emergency vehicles safely.
• Administer medications via injection, intravenous procedures, or oral administration under a physician’s guidance.
• Communicate with medical personnel at emergency treatment facilities to obtain treatment instructions.
• Clean and decontaminate the ambulance after transporting or treating patients with infectious diseases, reporting relevant information to authorities.

Minimum Qualifications

Preferred Qualifications

Physical Demands

Must be able to lift over 50 lbs, push / pull up to 140 lbs, and carry 80 lbs short distances. Frequent standing, walking, squatting, kneeling, crawling, climbing, and overhead reaching may be required.

This job description reflects major duties and responsibilities, requirements, and working conditions of the position. Management reserves the right to revise or change this description as necessary to meet organizational needs.

Lehigh Valley Health Network is an equal opportunity employer. We provide employment opportunities to all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or any other protected classes under the law. All personnel actions and programs will adhere to this policy.

Lehigh Valley Health Network does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our job aliases, employees, or any other location. LVHN is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.