What are the responsibilities and job description for the EMS 1 - EMT position at Butler County?
Position Summary: Under the direction of the shift supervisor, the EMT performs general duties of pre-hospital emergency medical service. The EMT performs basic like support, performs CPR, applies dressing and manages wound care, splinting of fractures, and maintains airway. The EMT works with an MICT and under the department medical guidelines and authorized activities.
Examples of Work (Essential Functions):
- Provides basic life support to the sick and injured according EMT duties; responds to request for service; transports patients to appropriate medical facility;
- Attends departmental training sessions;
- Operates emergency vehicles safely and professionally;
- Cleans assigned station and unit(s) daily;
- Completes all patient care reports, billing reports and incident reports by end of each shift;
- Completes daily maintenance and vehicle check sheets;
- Conducts daily self-training or education;
- Maintains station house and assures equipment is clean and in good working condition;
- Performs duties of EMT under the departmental medical guidelines;
- Provides written reports to Assistant Director on all vehicle, station, radio or medical equipment problems or request for repair immediately;
- Responds to 911 calls and assists in providing emergency medical treatment to the sick and injured;
- Stocks EMS units with supplies and equipment;
- Maintains professional development and continuing education as required;
- Performs other duties as deemed necessary or assigned.
Examples of Work (Marginal Functions):
- None.
Certificate, License: Valid driver's license. Certified EMT, Kansas. Hazardous Material Awareness Certificate.
Required Education and/or Experience: Six months to twelve months related experience, High School Diploma or G.E.D. and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Employee is expected to have acquired the necessary information and skills to perform the job reasonably well after six months in the position. 14 hours of continuing education annually.
Preferred Education and/or Experience: One year related experience, High School Diploma or G.E.D.; or equivalent combination of education and experience. Emergency medical experience.
Abilities, Knowledge, Skills:
- Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals;
- Ability to apply commonsense understanding to carry out instructions furnished in written, oral, or diagram form;
- Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs;
- Ability to convey and receive detailed or important verbal instructions to and from other workers and the general public;
- Ability to deal with problems involving several concrete variables in standardized situations;
- Ability to express or exchange ideas by means of verbal communication;
- Ability to operate a motor vehicle is required;
- Ability to operate all departmental equipment and radios is required;
- Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals;
- Ability to reliably and predictably carry out duties;
- Ability to speak effectively before groups of customers or employees of an organization;
- Ability to write routine reports and correspondence;
- Knowledge of county and city mapping must be maintained;
- Knowledge of emergency medical care and ambulance procedures;
- Knowledge of emergency vehicle operation and radio operations is required;
- Knowledge of math, including medical/infusion rate calculations as well as medical documentation;
- Skill in oral and written communication.
Problem Solving: There is problem solving in this position depending on the situation the patient is found in and deciding the appropriate medical care needed.
Decision Making: Must make important medical care decisions in this position. The person must be able to function independently.
Accountability: The employee is not accountable for the department budget but is accountable for their assigned task. Including appropriate medical care, completion of daily and required task. Decisions and actions will be evaluated by supervisor, department director and Quality assurance.
Supervision: There is limited supervision and the employee must function independently with a good understanding of departmental medical guidelines. Employee does not have supervisory responsibilities over subordinate personnel.
Personal Relationships: Continual contact with other emergency agencies and the public. Must represent themselves and the department in a positive manner.
Working Conditions: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this position.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is exposed less than one third of the time to conditions such moving mechanical parts; fumes or airborne particles; toxic or caustic chemicals and outside weather conditions. The noise level in the work environment is moderate to loud. This position is exposed to very stressful situations where things may seem chaotic. This position may be exposed to blood borne pathogens or bodily fluids. Attending to critically ill patients and exposure to graphic injuries, death and dying are a frequent aspect of this position. This position may be called out 24 hours a day to include evenings, nights, weekends and holidays. This position may have very long hours.
Physical Requirements: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
While performing the duties of this position, the employee is regularly required to stand and walk; use hands to finger, grasp, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance and stoop, squat, bend, twist, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Lifting, moving, pushing or pulling up to 10 pounds does generally occur, in emergencies may be necessary to lift, move, push, or pull up to 100 pounds. Physical requirements such as moving patients weighing 200 plus pounds from the floor to a cot and then loading the patient into ambulance occurs. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, depth perception, distance vision and ability to adjust focus.
The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by individuals assigned to this job. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all essential functions, marginal functions, responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified in this position.
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