VOCATIONAL/EDUCATIONAL AND EXPERIENCE PREPARATION
VOCATIONAL/EDUCATIONAL PREPARATION: Vocational/Educational preparation includes
job specific training and education required for entry into this job. The training and education may
be acquired in a school, work, military, institutional or vocational environment. It does not include
the orientation time required of a fully qualified worker to become accustomed to the special
conditions of any new job, nor does it include the amount of time that a worker spends to learn
reasoning, language, and mathematical skills, which are often learned in school.
Requires high school diploma or GED and a vocational technical education certificate for EMT
advanced earned from an accredited institution offering state/national testing and certification
upon successful completion of the program.
SPECIAL CERTIFICATIONS AND LICENSES: Special Certifications and Licenses refers to
state, federal, or professional certifications or licenses required to enter or maintain the job.
Must have a valid Georgia driver’s license, BLS,Intermediate or Advanced Certification.
Additional Firefighter certification is preferred.
EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: Experience refers to the amount of work experience that is
required for entry level into the position that would result in a reasonable expectation that the
employee can perform the job. It may be experience that can be gained on the job or experience
in a previous job.
Requires over six months and up to and including one year.
AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT REQUIREMENTS
PHYSICAL AND DEXTERITY REQUIREMENTS: Physical and dexterity refers to the
requirement for physical exertion and coordination of limb and body movement.
Requires medium work that involves walking, standing, stooping, stretching, and lifting your half
of a 165 pound patient along with the backboard and stretcher on a recurring basis. exceptional
skill, adeptness, and speed in the use of fingers, hands, or limbs in tasks involving very close
tolerances or limits of accuracy.
ENVIRONMENTAL HAZARDS: Environmental hazards refers to the job conditions that may lead
to injury or health hazards even though precautions have been taken.
The job risks exposure to bright/dim light, dusts and pollen, extreme heat and/or cold,
wet or humid conditions, extreme noise levels, fumes and/or noxious odors, traffic, moving
machinery, electrical shock, heights, confined spaces, disease/pathogens, toxic/caustic
chemicals, and violence.
SENSORY REQUIREMENTS: Sensory ability refers to hearing, sight, touch, taste, and smell
required by the job.
The job requires normal visual acuity, and field of vision, hearing, speaking, color perception,
sense of smell, depth perception and textile perception.
