Single-Role Paramedic

Potential Schedule: Full-time, 40-hour workweek. Paramedics will typically be assigned two to three 12-hour shifts per week on the department's Monday-Friday, 7 a.m.-7 p.m. peak-time ambulance. Remaining weekly hours will be scheduled for EMS training, operational support, and other departmental duties. Employees will not routinely work five consecutive 12-hour shifts.

• Provides premier customer service to internal and external customers by responding to requests in a timely and professional manner. Interact professionally with patients, families, first responders, and hospital staff; act as a patient advocate and maintain confidentiality (HIPAA). Communicate calmly and effectively with patients, families, crews, and hospital staff during high-stress situations.
• Respond to emergency and non-emergency medical calls and deliver ALS patient care in accordance with current BioTel CPGs, Medical Director requirements, department policies, and applicable law.
• Perform patient assessment: obtain history and vital signs, complete physical examination, form a field impression, and determine treatment priorities. Apply assessment findings and CPGs to form field impressions and make sound treatment decisions independently.
• Perform ALS interventions: advanced airway management, IV / IO access, medication administration and infusions, cardiac monitoring, 12-lead interpretation, defibrillation, cardioversion, and pacing.
• Assist with accessing, packaging, lifting, moving, and transporting patients using stretchers, stair chairs, scoop stretchers, backboards, and other approved devices, including patients located in vehicles, confined areas, elevated locations, or other difficult environments, within the employee’s training and assigned role.
• Operate and safely drive the ambulance / MICU and other authorized department vehicles to and from scenes, receiving facilities, and assignments under emergency and non-emergency conditions.
• Communicate with medical control, dispatch, first responders, and receiving facilities; deliver clear en-route and bedside patient reports; and operate assigned communications, dispatch, hospital-notification, and patient-tracking systems.
• Accurately and promptly document patient care and operational activities in the electronic patient care report (ePCR), records-management, and other assigned information systems.
• Inspect, restock, clean, decontaminate, and maintain the unit, medical equipment, and medications; ensure operational readiness and maintain accurate possession, security, documentation, reconciliation, and transfer of controlled substances in accordance with department policy, Medical Director requirements, and applicable law.
• Maintain required licenses and certifications; participate in continuing education, quality assurance / improvement, case review, skills verification, and assigned training.
• Follow infection-control, scene-safety, PPE, and post-exposure / decontamination (cancer-reduction) protocols.
• Perform routine unit, station, inventory, cleaning, readiness, administrative, training, public-education, community-health, special-event, emergency-activation, mass-casualty, disaster-response, mutual-aid, and other support duties within the employee’s training and scope of practice.
• Regular attendance required, including the ability to work assigned schedules that may include 12-hour or 24-hour shifts, rotating assignments, weekends, holidays, mandatory training, overtime, emergency callbacks, and schedule modifications based on operational needs.

• High school diploma or GED, and completion of an accredited Paramedic education program.
• No experience required. Prior experience in the emergency medical field preferred.
• Current Texas DSHS Paramedic certification or license and current National Registry Paramedic certification are required at the time of appointment; both must be maintained throughout employment.
• Current National Registry Paramedic certification, maintained throughout employment.
• Valid Texas driver license with an acceptable driving record and eligibility to operate City vehicles.
• Current AHA BLS Provider at the time of appointment or before release from the CHFD field-training process.
• NIMS / ICS 100, 200, 700, and 800 required within six months of hire.
• Successfully complete the CHFD field-training and credentialing process, including all examinations, skills verification, and requirements established by the EMS System Medical Director and BioTel.
• Successfully complete the CHFD emergency-vehicle operations course during the field-training process.

Complete online application at Cedar Hill City Website at www.cedarhilltx.com. The City of Cedar Hill can no longer accept actual/faxed applications. ONLY ONLINE APPLICATIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED. There are computers at the Cedar Hill Library for applicants that do not have access to a computer at home. If you are having trouble with the NEOGOV Applicant tracking site, please call the NEOGOV technical support number at 1-877-204-4442 and select option 1.

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, the City of Cedar Hill will make every reasonable effort to accommodate your needs. For any special requests, please call Human Resources at 972-291-5100, ext 1050.

The City of Cedar Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of genetic information in compliance with GINA, race, sex, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, age, or disability in hiring, conditions, or termination of employment. Final applicants for employment with the City of Cedar Hill are subject to drug testing and background screening.

CITY OF CEDAR HILL
285 Uptown Blvd Bldg #100
Cedar Hill, TX 75104
972-291-5100 ext. 1054