What are the responsibilities and job description for the Community Paramedic 40 per hour position at Integrity EMS?
You must be a Certified Community Paramedic to hold this position. If you have taken the class and are waiting to complete your certification, you can join our team as a Paramedic at our standard rates depending on your other credentials, and will be raised up to Community Paramedic pay once your CP endorsement becomes active. Likewise, if you are a Paramedic interested in becoming a Community Paramedic, we do have a tuition reimbursement program and will sponsor your to take the Community Paramedicine class. Part time and full time are available for this position.
Our Community Paramedics will be a part of our new Mobile Integrated Healthcare program that we are launching. They will be filling the gaps in our healthcare system that a lot of patients fall through, acting as patient advocates to help people navigate the complexities of our healthcare system. They will be doing medication inventories and reconciliation to ensure patients are not taking any medications together that may interact negatively with each other, and that they stop taking discontinued meds and are taking their new medications properly. They will also help educate patients on how to implement any diets they've been prescribed and how to manage their fluid and sodium intake as needed. They will also be doing patient needs assessments to find out what unmet needs patients have and connecting them with services they may not have known about to help meet these needs. They will also be doing home safety assessments to help prevent falls and other home accidents. They will also coordinate with the patient's primary care provider to stay on track with their care plan in order to help keep them out of the hospital.
Starting our, our Community Paramedics may be on the ambulance part of the time and doing Community Paramedicine visits part of the time, depending on patient load. Gradually, more time will be spent on Community Paramedicine. While on Community Paramedicine detail, our Community Paramedics will also be available to sprint with BLS crews for ALS and Critical Care/ventilator calls, so preference is that you will also be at least ventilator certified or Critical Care certified, on top of being Community Paramedic certified.
Starting pay for Community Paramedics who are not vent or critical care certified will be $37/hour. Starting pay for Community Paramedics who are Critical Care or Vent Certified will be $40/hour. This base pay is supplemented by early call and late call bonuses, as well as quarterly work performance bonuses. Employees who earn just one late call bonus per week and hit the top level quarterly bonus earn up to an extra $5000/yr, which averages out to an extra $2.67/hour for a 36 hour per week full time schedule. It's important to factor that in with what competitors are offering to pay you. We also do our level best to get people out on time. We do not over book, we stop taking calls when we have no more resources left for the day. When crews do get out late due to an unforeseen delay, we compensate extra as well out of respect for their time. Overtime is also available.
We offer Blue Cross and Blue Shield medical insurance that the company pays 50% for, as well as dental, vision, short term disability, life insurance and supplementary insurance, all also paid at 50% by the company. We also match the first 4% of your income that you put into your 401k dollar for dollar. We also have a comprehensive Employee Assistance Program that is free of charge to employees and their families. We are also in the process of developing an Employee Health program that will involve gym memberships and potentially bonuses for achieving health goals.
We also do our own in house AHA renewals, NAEMT courses, online CEU's and have three state instructors on staff who can do CEU classes on any topic you need. This is a locally owned, family run company. We have no investors or board members to make happy, and no out of town owners or managers who have no real connection to the area or the day to day operation of the company. The owner is an active Critical Care and now Community Paramedic with over 34 years of experience in EMS.
Salary : $5,000
