EMS Driver - Chattanooga

Company: Hire Velocity
Location: Chattanooga
Posted on: May 27, 2023

Job Description:

Overview

We have a job opening for a compassionate and caring person ready to help transport elderly, disabled and emergency patients. This position is perfect if you would like to further your career and become an Emergency Medical Technician or paramedic. Join our Amerimed team, apply today. Looking for EMR, EMT's waiting on certification, or EMT's currently in EMT school to work as drivers under certified.

Job Responsibilities

• Complete a mechanical checklist prior to each shift to ensure ambulance is in working order and ready to transport patients to and from required locations, and report any mechanical issues to appropriate service personnel
• Ensure ambulance is clean and stocked properly with first aid and medical supplies prior to each shift and between patient transports throughout the day
• Accept patient transport assignments daily and drive ambulance with any necessary medical personnel to patient location
• Help patients onto ambulance gurney and load them into the ambulance, assisted by partner or other medical personnel
• Transport patient to assigned medical facility, unload patient and take patient inside facility and to where directed by medical personnel
• Accompany EMTs and paramedics on emergency calls to transport patients to hospitals when assigned to do so
• Report accident or other emergency facts to medical personnel and/or law enforcement when necessary
• Complete appropriate trip sheets as required by employer to record officially each transport
  Job Skills and Qualifications
  
  Required:
  
  • High school diploma or equivalent
  • CPR certification or willing to become CPR certified
  • Valid driver's license
  • Must attain EMT-B certification by May 2024 to maintain employment
  • Knowledge of radio/standard radio transmission codes
  • Must be able to lift 150 lbs
  • Must be 21 years of age with clean driving record or 23 years of age
  • Must pass background check and drug screening
    Preferred:
    
    • Previous experience with gurneys, hydraulic and wheelchair lifts
    • Familiarity with GPS
      

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