Paramedic - Pediatric Flight Transport

It's more than a career, it's a calling

MO-SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

Worker Type:

Regular

Job Highlights:

$5,000 Sign On Bonus!**

Infants and children come to SSM Health Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital by ambulance and helicopter from all over Missouri and Illinois. Many of these children are brought to the hospital by using our specially trained Neonatal and Pediatric Transport Team.

The Transport Team is made up of paramedics, registered nurses and respiratory therapists who have advanced training in the stabilization, treatment and transport of babies and children.

The Transport Team services over 120 hospitals in the bistate and beyond. They are readily available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. In addition to bringing children to the Dan Dierdorf Level I Pediatric Emergency and Trauma Center, the Dana Brown Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and the state-of-the-art Pediatric Intensive Care Unit at SSM Health Cardinal Glennon, the transport teams also assist with inter-hospital transports within their respective regions.

*MO and IL Paramedic license required

**Sign on bonuses are for external qualified candidates.  Internal candidates, please check with your recruiter to see what options are available for you.

Job Summary:

Collaborates to provide exceptional care during the transport of acute or critically ill/injured neonatal or pediatric patients. The team’s care is guided by clinical assessment, critical thinking, established patient care guidelines and indirect medical control. Manages customer service and experience. Collaborates across organization for education and process improvement initiatives; patient care documentation and equipment readiness.

Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintains currency and documentation of prescribed education, certifications and licensures.
• Assists and performs daily inventory of equipment on ambulance, aircraft, storerooms and equipment bags.
• Maintains thorough patient care documentation according to the standard outlined by department and entity policy.
• Utilizes transport and critical care equipment in a competent manner.
• Perform or assists with Basic Life Support (BLS) and Advanced Life Support (ALS) skills during patient care including but not limited to: initiation of PIV/IO; assists with UVC placement, managing IV fluids (including blood products); naso/oral/pharyngeal suctioning; insertion of NG/OG tubes; needle thoracotomy; and insertion/maintenance of an endotracheal tube or LMA.
• Maintains an awareness of current issues related to transport medicine through participation in professional activities, i.e. national, state legislative-elected or appointed.
• Participates/attends in-house education, outreach education, department process improvement projects, undertakes and maintains projects to include research and publishing opportunities.
• Acts as a preceptor and/or participates in orientation of new employees and students as assigned.
• Demonstrates and maintains knowledge and skills necessary to care for the patient groups of: Pediatric, Adolescent, Adult and Geriatric.
• Transports patients (via wheelchair, stretcher, bed or as an escort in cases where the patient is ambulatory) to and from clinical, ancillary, and support department areas as directed by the requesting nursing and ancillary divisions. Assists clinical personnel in transferring patients to (or from) beds, chairs, wheelchairs or stretchers. Assists with delivery of medical records or central supply items.
• Works in a constant state of a