Temporary Career Emergency Medical Technician

Job Description:

Please Note: This recruitment is being conducted to establish an eligibility list to fill current and future vacancies as they arise. Candidates who meet the qualifications and successfully complete the selection process will be placed on the eligibility list.

The Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) is responsible for providing emergency medical care and hospital transport to citizens calling 911. The EMT classification represents a high level of urgent response treatment care provided for out of hospital medical or traumatic emergencies. EMTs must possess the following qualifications: EMT Certification, CPR Certification, and Emergency Vehicle Operations Course Certification. Work responsibilities extend to monitoring and ordering supplies and emergency vehicle inspection and maintenance. All work must be performed in accordance with best practices, Federal, State and County laws, regulations, local ordinances, policies, procedures and the Maryland EMS provider protocols. The position works under the direction of and reports to the career EMS Shift Supervisor.

Essential Job Functions

Responds to 911 calls and for service and performs patient assessment: O2, CPR, monitoring vital signs, 12-lead EKG application and transmission, Intravenous line initiation, interpretation of test results and transportation of patients to care facilities.

Provides emergency medical treatment and CPR to patients suffering from medical or traumatic incidents to include the administration of drugs and procedures as per Maryland protocols.

Orders supplies and equipment for assigned transport unit.  

Performs transport unit inspections and maintenance.

Sanitizes and deodorizes transport unit daily to comply with various infectious control procedures.   

Provides emergency care --- bandaging, splinting, medication administration, bleeding control, oxygen administration (and other practices for which personnel are trained).

Lifts and carries patients, with assistance, to unit stretcher or transport unit

Documents outcome of all calls to include type of call (emergency or non-emergency), care rendered, patient outcomes, and other protocols associated with the incident.

Assures that documentation required by the EMS Division, Fire/Rescue/EMS and MIEMSS is furnished in a timely and accurate manner.

Performs quality assurance reviews of previous incident calls with co-workers to ensure best practices are maintained.  

Operates emergency vehicles in accordance with County driving procedures and Career Emergency Medical Services Division operating guidelines.  

Maintains security levels required to safeguard and protect the privacy of all protected records.

Interacts and communicates with volunteer stations, hospital personnel, patients, families, and supervisory personnel.  

Assists with station duties, as scheduled or required.

Other Duties

Performs related work as required.

Knowledges, Abilities and Skills (These are pre-employment KASs that apply only to Essential Job Functions.)

Knowledge of--

• Principles and methods of related EMT services, including rendering emergency care in accordance with safety protocols and procedures.

• Best practices of providing EMT urgent response, emergency medical care protocols, including treatment and transportation, emergency and trauma response and the management of medical emergencies.

• EMT standard operating procedures, laws, codes, rules, regulations and requirements governing the provision of emergency medical care, services and transport.

• Principles and practices of EMT emergency medical programs, transport maintenance, emergency vehicle driving compliances, trauma care, continuous training, and quality assurance.

Ability to--

• Provide urgent EMT medical and trauma care, as required, in response to 911 calls.

• Establish and maintain effective working relationships with EMS personnel, hospital personnel, volunteer station personnel, and with patients and their families.  

• Respond to EMT service needs to achieve program goals, objectives, and priorities.

• Comply with EMT standard operating procedures, laws, codes, rules and regulations governing program activitie