- Oficina en Farmington
Creating Life Better Here starts with you. At San Juan Regional Medical Center, we're more than a healthcare provider—we're a values-driven organization dedicated to delivering exceptional care. As a team member, you help fulfill our mission to make life better here for our community.
The EMT By continuously improves pre-hospital emergency skills, knowledge database and patient empathy; the EMT-Basic functions to decrease suffering, improve the health of the community and save lives.Required Behaviors:
- As you go about fulfilling this mission, your work habits and work relationships should embody SJRMC's values. These values are our culture, our identity as an organization: Sacred Trust, Personal Reverence, Thoughtful Anticipation, Team Accountability and Creative Vitality ask more of us than merely completing some list of tasks. Our values ask for a deeper level of commitment, and what is asked of us we freely give because we believe in our mission.
Required Qualifications:
- High School Diploma or equivalent
- Healthcare Provider BLS certification
- Current New Mexico EMT Basic License or National Registry of EMTs Basic License
Preferred Qualifications:
- Healthcare related work or volunteer experience
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Working knowledge of emergency medical procedures and techniques
- Working knowledge of equipment and supplies employed in the emergency care of patients and victims of accidents
- Working knowledge of city and county geography and location of roads and streets, hospitals and nursing homes
- Working knowledge of radio communications equipment
- Skill in assessing a victim's condition and applying emergency medical care
- Ability to drive an ambulance safely under various weather conditions
- Ability to deal with patients, their families, co-workers, other agencies and hospital staff courteously at all times
- Ability to maintain effective working relationships with other employees
- Responds to emergency calls as an ambulance driver or attendant, performs necessary rescue work, administers necessary emergency medical care, and transports persons to appropriate medical facilities
- Provides EMT-Basic level pre-hospital care as delineated in the NM Scope of Practice
- Maintains ambulance, equipment, and supplies in proper working order
- Participates in a continuous training program in technical medical work and in ambulance service and operation.
- Acts as preceptor in new employee orientation
- Gives talks on emergency medical services at schools
- Conducts tours of station as requested
- Cleans ambulances and stations
- Studies street and road patterns of the cities and county
- Each employee is responsible for implementing SJRMC’s Service Standards into their daily work:
Safety, Courtesy, Effectiveness, and Stewardship
- Other duties as assigned
Physical Demands and Environmental Work Conditions:
- Ability to lift 50 Kg.
- May be exposed to infectious and contagious diseases
- Regularly exposed to the risk of bloodborne diseases
- Contact with patients under wide variety of circumstances
- Exposure to unpleasant elements (accidents, injuries and illness)
- Subject to varying and unpredictable situations
- Handles emergency or crisis situations
- Occasionally subjected to irregular hours
