Paramedic

St. Elizabeth Community Hospital provides state-of-the-art health care to the North State communities. This award-winning facility is a member of the Dignity Health system of health care providers and is a not-for-profit medical center. Located in picturesque Tehama County, St. Elizabeth offers 76 licensed beds, a trauma level III emergency department, comprehensive surgical services and a progressive Family Birth Center. St. Elizabeth Community Hospital has earned a Grade "A" from The Leapfrog Group for quality and safety for six consecutive award periods, and has built a reputation for excellence in orthopedics, family-centered maternity care and emergency services. St. Elizabeth is a sister facility to Mercy Medical Center Redding and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta, and is committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate care available. 

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As a Paramedic, you will provide advanced emergency medical care and transport to critically ill or injured patients in pre-hospital and inter-facility settings.

Every day you will rapidly assess scenes, evaluate conditions, and administer life-saving interventions, while safely operating emergency vehicles and documenting care.

To be successful, you will demonstrate expert clinical skills, exceptional critical thinking under stress, and compassionate communication, ensuring optimal patient outcomes.

• Maintains established policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement program and safety standards.
• Performs patient systems assessment/data collection in an ongoing and systematic manner.
• Enters patient data into computerized patient care reporting system so that there are no deficiencies.
• Performs direct patient care and implements patient care in a knowledgeable, skillful, and consistent manner while administering medications and performing procedures consistent with EMT certification.
• Administers medications and performs procedures consistent with Paramedic certification and selected S-SV EMS treatment protocols.
• Participates in problem identification and patient care planning.

Required

• Six months experience as a paramedic with an accredited EMS agency or Fire Department. and
• Hiring manager may consider the applicants field internship as qualifying experience if the preceptorship was completed at a Dignity Health North Service Area facility and successfully completed.
• Driver's License: CA, upon hire and
• Certified Ambulance Driver: CA, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire (Must be through the American Heart Association)
• CDMC, upon hire and
• Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic: CA, upon hire and
• Local Paramedic Accredited (s-sv)