Fire Medical Responder Advance EMT (AEMT) Salary Range: $45,539 - $75,969 Position posted until filled Job Description:The Atlanta Fire-Rescue Department offers exceptional and diverse career opportunities for men and women seeking professional and personal success. If you seek a competitive salary with excellent benefits, varying job assignments with advancement potential, and endeavor to impact the lives of others. Consider joining the AFRD team, fire service may be the exciting, challenging, and rewarding career you have been looking for. Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Minimum Qualifications -
Responsibilities: - Assess each call situation to determine the best course of action while working with progressive AEMT protocols.
- AEMTs provide an assessment of patients, determine necessary care, and deliver emergency services by utilizing appropriate medical techniques and equipment.
- Document patient information, condition, and treatment while maintaining confidentiality and patient rights.
- Take pride in providing a safe, clean, and well-stocked environment for patients.
- Use appropriate AEMT skills to provide care including communications, medical equipment, cleaning procedures, office equipment, and tools.
- AEMTs operate an ambulance in conjunction with applicable company safety policies, and traffic laws related to the operation of emergency medical response vehicles.
- Work collaboratively and in a professional manner with all allied health and public safety personnel as well as your fellow AEMTs.
ADA Compliance: - Physical Ability: Tasks require the ability to exert heavy physical effort in heavy work, with greater emphasis on climbing and balancing, but typically also involving some combination of stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and the lifting, carrying, pushing, and/or pulling of moderately heavy objects and materials (20-50 pounds); may occasionally involve heavier objects (100 pounds or over).
- Sensory Requirements: Some tasks require the ability to perceive and discriminate colors or shades of colors, sounds, odor, depth, texture, and visual cues or signals. Some tasks require the ability to communicate orally.
- Environmental Factors: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, smoke, temperature and noise extremes, hazardous materials, fire, unsafe structures, heights, confined spaces, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, bright/dim lights, toxic agents, animal/wildlife attacks, animal/human bites, explosives, disease/bodily fluids, pathogenic substances, or rude/irate customers.
Minimum Qualifications:- High School Diploma or GED required, supplemented by vocational or technical Advance EMT/Paramedic training; supplemented by one year of experience in a related field; or any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities for this job.
- Specific License or Certification Required: Must possess and maintain a valid Georgia Driver’s License.
- Specific Knowledge, Skills, or Abilities: Must be able to demonstrate proficiency in the performance of the essential functions and learn, comprehend, and apply all City or departmental policies, practices, and procedures necessary to function effectively in the position.
