Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.
The EMT continuously improves pre-hospital emergency skills, knowledge database and patient empathy; the EMT functions to decrease suffering, improve the health of the community and save lives.
Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- NM Licensure as an EMT
- Meet NM Public Regulatory Commission (PRC) DOT physical requirements
- Valid NM Driver’s License
- Driving Record free of uninsurable violations
- Current BLS as required by license
- NIMS ICS 100,200,700,800 (within 90 days of hire)
- Ability to safely lift fifty (50) kgs
- EVOC (within 6 months)
- CEVO (Obtained during orientation if not available upon hire)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Previous experience with direct patient care in a healthcare setting. Enrolled, or is planning to enroll in a paramedic program – although not required.
- Encouraged to obtain National Registry EMT Basic.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Working knowledge of emergency medical procedures and techniques.
- Working knowledge of equipment and supplies employed in the emergency care of patients and victims of accidents.
- Working knowledge of city and county geography and location of roads and streets, hospitals and nursing homes.
- Working knowledge of radio communications equipment and procedures.
- Skill in assessing a victim's condition and applying emergency medical care appropriately.
- Ability to operate an ambulance safely under various weather conditions.
- Ability to deal with patients, their families, co-workers, other agencies and hospital staff courteously and professionally at all times.
- Ability to maintain effective professional working relationships with other employees and public service agencies.
- Responds to emergency calls as an ambulance driver or attendant, performs necessary rescue work, administers necessary emergency medical care, and transports persons to appropriate medical facilities.
- Provides EMT level pre-hospital care as delineated in the NM Scope of Practice.
- Maintains ambulance, equipment, and supplies in proper working order.
- Assure ambulance quarters are cleaned, and ambulances are fully stocked and equipped and ready for immediate response. This includes controlled substances are accounted for on assigned shifts and submit report daily in iOPS.
- Participates in a continuous training program in technical medical work and in ambulance service and operation.
- Acts as preceptor in new employee orientation if assigned.
- Completes and submits electronic patient care report (ePCR) as soon as the incident is done or by the end of the shift.
- May participate in public relation events as assigned.
- Conducts tours of station as requested.
- Assures all assigned communication devices, including assigned phones are accounted for and readily available for use.
- Cleans ambulances and stations daily on assigned shifts.
- Keeps current street and road patterns of the cities and county of assigned areas
- Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:
Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
- Ability to lift fifty (50) Kg.
- May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases
- Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
- Exposure to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries and illness)
- Subject to varying and unpredictable situations
- Handles emergency or crisis situations
- Occasionally subjected to irregular hours