Paramedic

Work Schedule

Other

Environmental Conditions

Able to lift 40 lbs. without assistance, Some degree of PPE (Personal Protective Equipment) required (safety glasses, gowning, gloves, lab coat, ear plugs etc.)

Job Description

Job Description

At Thermo Fisher Scientific, you’ll discover meaningful work that makes a positive impact on a global scale. Join our colleagues in bringing our Mission to life - enabling our customers to make the world healthier, cleaner and safer. We provide our teams with the resources needed to achieve individual career goals while taking science a step beyond through research, development and delivery of life-changing therapies. With clinical trials conducted in 100+ countries and ongoing development of novel frameworks for clinical research through our PPD clinical research portfolio, our work spans laboratory, digital and decentralized clinical trial services. Your determination to deliver quality and accuracy will improve health outcomes that people and communities depend on – now and in the future.
Within Medical Communications, we improve patient health by supplying medical information services to our customers, patients and healthcare providers. We engage with healthcare professionals, regulatory agencies and pharmaceutical customers to help them navigate regulatory and compliance requirements around the world. We manage medical information inquiries, document adverse events and product complaints, report product launches, prepare standard responses to inquiries and develop process improvements for customer implementation.
Discover Impactful Work:
Provides technical and medical information, and/or performs intake of adverse events/ product complaints with quality customer service. Analyzes and researches inquiries and documents interactions according to organizational, client and regulatory guidelines. The information provided will be given to a level in parallel with the individual’s expertise, experience and training.

Working under the direction of the chief physician/investigator and the Staff Paramedic in the Clinic, ensures subject safety, health and well-being. Continually monitors the subject population at all times,

noting and treating Adverse Events (AEs) as needed. Acts as the primary assistant to the

Paramedic Manager in observing, documenting, and treating AEs, or directly deferring to the physician/investigator as needed.

Essential Functions and Other Job Information:

Essential Functions

• Acts as primary subject safety contact for all study subjects in the Clinic.
•  Monitors and records Adverse Events (AEs). Reviews all active AEs prior to dose

and determines if it is safe for subject to proceed with study procedures and/or

dosing. If subject safety is in question, may confer with staff paramedic,

operational management and/or the physician/investigator for additional

instruction and/or directive. May review all active AEs for a given study and

follow up with study subject(s), as necessary.

•  Provides basic and Advanced medical care, both emergent and non-emergent, to

all study subjects, as appropriate. Assists in the resuscitation and

stabilization of a subject in any life-threatening situation using both accepted

medical protocols and any study specific treatments.

· May perform technical procedures in the Phase I unit including blood collection,

vital signs, and ECGs.

· Assesses out of range values for symptomology and may medically intervene

should study subject's safety be in question.

Job Complexity         

Works on assignments that are semi-routine in nature but recognizes the need for

occasional deviation from accepted practice.

Job Knowledge

Applies acquired job skills and company policies and procedures to complete

assigned tasks.

Supervision Received

Normally follows established procedures on routine work, requires instructions only

on new assignments.

Business Relationships

Contacts are typically with individuals within own department and occasionally with

contacts outside own organization. Contacts involve obtaining or providing

information or data requiring some explanation or interpretation.

Qualifications:

Education and Experience:

High / Secondary school diploma or equivalent and relevant formal academic / vocational qualification.

Previous experience that provides the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the job (preferably 3

years as a paramedic in a 911 system and/or in a clinical settin