Emergency Medical Technician - EMT

Description:
Could you be our next EMT with Riddle EMS?

Why work as an EMT at Main Line Health?

• Make an Impact! You make all the difference! The EMT is a leader, and integral component, of the pre-hospital care provider team, providing basic life support and facilitating advanced life support to any individual in need of care in time of sudden illness or injury. In this fast-paced role, you would provide emergent care in a pre-hospital setting, maintaining treatment standards and protocols. Use your quick thinking skills and the ability to work closely as a team to provide the best patient care possible as an Emergency Medical Technician.
  
  
• Develop and Grow your Career! Invest in furthering through seeking certifications or advanced degrees by taking advantage of our Tuition Reimbursement! This position is eligible for up to $6,000 per year based your Full or Part Time status.
  
  
• Join the Team! Like our patients, the Main Line Health Family encompasses a wide range of backgrounds and abilities. Just as each of our patients requires a personalized care plan, each of our employees, physicians, and volunteers, bring distinctive talents to Main Line Health. Regardless of our unique design, we all share a purpose: providing superior service and care.
  
  
• Position-Specific Benefits include: You are eligible for up to 160 hours of paid time off per year based on your Full or Part Time status. We also offer a number of employee discounts to various activities, services, and vendors... And employee parking is always free!
  
  

Position: EMT
Shift: 12 hour shifts 7:00am-7:00pm or 7:00pm-7:00am

Experience:
1. Minimum of two years of pre-hospital basic life support experience preferred.
2. Knowledge of medications carried for use by the EMT-Paramedic in the treatment and management of neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients consistent with level of training and certification.
3. Knowledge of basic and advanced life support and resuscitation procedures for neonates, infants, children, adolescents, adults, and geriatric patients consistent with level of training and certification.
4. Knowledge, ability, and skills necessary to appropriately assess and manage care.
5. Knowledge, ability, and skills necessary to appropriately operate basic equipment and assist with the operation of advanced equipment.


Education:
1. High school graduate.
2. Successful completion of an approved EMT-MAST program or its equivalent.
3. Satisfactory completion of practical and written examinations administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Health.


Licensures/Certifications:
1. Current Pennsylvania certification as an EMT or NREMT.
2. Current driver’s license valid in Pennsylvania with a copy on file.
3. Current BCLS certification.
4. Hazmat Awareness, and EVOC all are required.
5. Other certifications are encouraged, such as: NREMT, PHTLS, BTLS, Fire I or equivalent.