Paramedic Academy Student, EMT, Full-time 12 hr. Weekend Days + 1 Wkday
JOB SUMMARY: The Paramedic Academy EMT serves as an EMT for AirCare, the Emergency Department or other area as assigned in addition to attending scheduled Paramedic classes and clinical internships. AirCare Responsibilities include safe and efficient transport of patients including maintaining vehicle mission ready status and obeying all traffic laws and regulations of North Carolina Office of EMS. Emergency Department responsibilities include providing care for patients within scope of practice and assisting with transfer of patients upon admission. Academy responsibilities include reporting to and participating in assigned classes and clinical internships as required for completion of 4by NC Education Institution Paramedic Academy educational guidelines
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE: Graduation from high school or equivalent. One year’s experience driving emergency vehicles preferred.
LICENSURE, CERTIFICATION, and/or REGISTRATION: Valid North Carolina Driver’s License with no restrictions required. Current North Carolina EMT certification required. National Registry EMT preferred. Emergency Vehicle Operations course preferred. Meets acceptance criteria for and pre-accepted into NC Education Institution Paramedic program.
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:
- Promotes the safe and supportive transport environment for all passengers in the transport vehicle.
- Maintains patient privacy and ensures protected health information is secure.
- Practices professional and courteous conduct in accordance with the values of the NC Education Institution and the expectations of the AirCare and Emergency Department leadership.
- Meets and maintains regulatory requirements of NCOEMS and Paramedic Teaching Institution.
- Completes appropriate documentation required by AirCare, the Emergency Department and the NC Education Institution
SKILLS/QUALIFICATIONS:
Knowledge of emergency and non-emergency ambulance operation.
Effective oral and written communication skills including ability to document in electronic health record.
Computer skills
Ability to adapt to different work environments and different situations.
Strong critical thinking skills
Strong interpersonal skills
WORK ENVIRONMENT:
Varies between clean, well lit, and comfortable climate to dirty, non-well lit and uncomfortable climate.
Potential exposure to contamination with blood or bodily fluids, requiring protective equipment
Highly stressful, dynamic conditions
Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the fifth-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.
Wake Forest Baptist Health, Wake Forest University School of Medicine and Atrium Health have joined forces in a strategic combination that will enhance care, transform medical education and create economic opportunity for countless lives in North Carolina and beyond. As a part of that combination, the two health systems will be integrating technology and platforms, including our career sites.
This means that although you are applying on the Wake Forest Baptist Health Career Site, you receive communications from the Atrium Health Recruitment Team. Please know that this is an expected process, and thanks in advance for your flexibility.
