The Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) plays a crucial role in providing emergency medical care and transportation to patients in need. This position requires a high level of professionalism, compassion, and medical expertise to ensure the safety and well-being of patients during critical situations.
Paramedics provide advanced life support care to patients who are ill and/or injured. Administers direct care to the patient of all age groups under the direction of an emergency medical physician, emergency physician’s assistant, and emergency advanced registered nurse practitioner or utilizes approved EMS protocols if transporting a patient. Paramedics ensure adherence to hospital and department policies as well as paramedic scope of practice.
Baptist Health is now hiring Paramedics and EMTs to join our EMS team at Baptist Health Corbin! Full-time and PRN available!
Duties and Responsibilities:
Provides patient care within the medical director approved department protocols and state scope of practice.
Recognizes, responds to, and communicates changes in patient condition appropriately.
Thoroughly and accurately completes all required documentation and patient care reports within required timeframe.
Provide compassionate care and emotional support to patients and their families during transport to medical facilities.
Sets priorities for the transport of multiple patients.
Assures resources and coordinates plan of delivery.
Maintains knowledge and familiarity with each vehicle in fleet in order to operate smooth and safely.
Assures ambulance is clean, stocked and response ready at the beginning and end of every shift as well as prior to each and every request for service.
Ensures proper vehicle maintenance and equipment readiness as well as proper ALS gear readiness and utilization.
Minimum Requirements for EMT
High school diploma or equivalency required.
Emergency Medical Technician-Basic Certification by the Kentucky Board of EMS.
BLS for Healthcare Provider issued by AHA or ARC.
Other certifications and specialty training as required by the Kentucky Board of EMS.
Valid driver's license.
Minimum Requirements for Paramedic
High school diploma or equivalency required.
Active Paramedic license through the Kentucky Board of EMS at time of consideration.
BLS for Healthcare Provider issued by AHA or ARC.
PALS & ACLS certifications.
Other certifications and specialty training as required by the Kentucky Board of EMS.
Valid driver's license.
Excellent Benefits Package
5 days of Paid Time Off available for use upon hire (Full-time)
PTO Sell Back Program
Compassionate Leave Sharing Program (PTO Donation)
Company paid Maternity and Paternity Leave
Bereavement Leave (includes pets)
Employee Support Fund, for employees in need of emergency financial support
Retirement plans with company match
Company paid Basic Life Insurance & Long-Term Disability
Health Insurance, Pharmacy, Dental, Vision and much more!
Some benefits are available to part-time and PRN employees including Retirement Plans!
Work Experience
Education
Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of nine hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 400 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.
Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana. Baptist Health also operates the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky in a joint venture with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana. Baptist Health employs more than 23,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.
Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.
Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has nearly 1,500 providers, including more than 750 physicians and more than 740 advanced practice clinicians. Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.
Learn more at BaptistHealth.com.
