Paramedic

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.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Graduate General Studies and Six months experience as a paramedic with an accredited EMS agency or Fire Department. Hiring manager may consider the applicants field internship as qualifying experience if the preceptorship was completed at a Dignity Health North Service Area facility and successfully completed, upon hire or
• High School GED General Studies and less than 1 year Six months experience as a paramedic with an accredited EMS agency or Fire Department. Hiring manager may consider applicants 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 and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• CDMC, upon hire and
• Certified Ambulance Driver: CA, upon hire and
• Driver's License: CA, upon hire and
• Local Paramedic Accredited, upon hire

Preferred

• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, upon hire and
• Prehospital Trauma Life Support, upon hire and
• Stable Program, upon hire

Where You'll Work

Mercy Medical Center Redding offers comprehensive health care to nearly 300,000 residents in a six-county region. It is one of only two Level II trauma centers, the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the only Joint Commission-certified Advanced Thrombectomy-Capable Stroke Center north of Sacramento north of Sacramento. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a 266-bed regional medical center providing inpatient and outpatient services as well as specialized cardiovascular care, stroke care, orthopedics, neurological surgery, comprehensive cancer care, maternity care, and a robust robotic surgery program. In addition, the hospital's network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living.

One Community. One Mission. One California