Description
Salary: $57,252 - $82,342
Position Grade: 211G
Department: St. Louis Fire Department – Emergency Medical Services
Job Type: Full-Time (Permanent)
Examination Number: EX1697
Location: EMS Headquarters - St. Louis, MO
Promotional - Open to Permanent City Employees Only.
Incumbents in this position are responsible for performing lead paramedic duties and providing emergency care to the sick and injured. Duties include leading a crew of paramedics, testing equipment and training new paramedics.
Essential Functions and Responsibilities:
- Schedules, distributes, balances and guides the work assignments of co-workers, according to established work/flow assignment requirements, to assist supervisory staff with timely completion of the assigned workload.
- Monitors and reports on co-workers work performance to determine overall conformity to establish timetables and quality standards, and to document and communicate employee production levels and training needs.
- Trains co-workers as directed, in specific tasks, job practices and procedures of emergency medical work to improve and maintain the performance levels of these employees.
- Acts as Paramedic Supervisor in absence of regularly assigned supervisor.
- Commands medical emergency scene in absence of superior personnel.
- Tests new equipment and assists with testing new Paramedics/EMTS.
- Duties will also include the care and treatment of sick and injured persons (providing transportation when necessary) consistent with the national performance standards for Paramedics; documentation of activities and completion of appropriate forms; provides leadership for the Emergency Medical Technician assigned to the medical unit; drive, fuel, inspect and clean the ambulance, reporting maintenance for the ambulance and equipment used in pre-hospital care; orders and maintains supplies and medications.
Knowledge Skills and Abilities
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to perform mid-level data analysis including the ability to audit, deduce, assess, conclude and appraise. Requires discretion in determining and referencing such to established criteria to define consequences and develop alternatives.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to provide first line supervision. Ability to persuade, convince, and train others. Ability to advise and provide interpretation regarding the application of policies, procedures and standards to specific situations. Requires the ability to provide paraprofessional level medical care, such as CPR, injury stabilization, starting intravenous line, operating defibrillator machine.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools and Materials Use: Requires the ability to operate, calibrate, tune and synchronize, and perform complex rapid adjustment on equipment, machinery and tools such as ambulance, fire extinguisher, flashlight, heart monitor, blood pressure cuff, glucometer, oxygen tank regulator, ventilation and suction equipment, cervical collar, stretchers, backboard and EKG machine, and/or related materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a variety of advisory data and information such as performance evaluations, personnel policies, training materials, medical documentation, insurance forms, ambulance run reports, check off lists, maps, street guides, technical operating manuals, statutes, procedures, guidelines and non-routine correspondence.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform addition, subtraction, multiplication and division; calculate percentages and decimals.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems such as supervision, leading, teaching, directing and coordinating. Ability to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to problem resolution.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise the judgment, decisiveness and creativity required in critical and/or unexpected situations involving moderate risk to the organization.
- Environmental Factors: Tasks may risk exposure to adverse environmental conditions, such as dirt, dust, pollen, odors, wetness, humidity, rain, fumes, temperature and noise extremes, machinery, vibrations, electric currents, traffic hazards, toxic/poisonous agents, potential violence, disease, or pathogenic substances.
- Physical Requirements: Requires the ability to lift, push and pull over one-hundred (100) pounds to move the sick and injured, and/or extricating accident victims from wreckage. Requires the ability to stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, bend, twist and climb to provide assistance to the sick and injured, assist in extricating victims and other duties required at emergency medical situations.
- Sensory Requirements: Requires the ability to recognize and identify similarities or differences between characteristics of colors, shapes, sounds and odors associated with job-related objects, materials and tasks to evaluate patients’ condition.
Other Requirements
- Must be available to work varying shifts including nights, weekends, holidays, and overtime.
Qualifications
A high school diploma or General Educational Development (G.E.D.) certificate; plus one year of experience with the City of St. Louis Emergency Medical Service as a licensed Paramedic.
Certification: Current certification in Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) through the American Heart Association.
Licenses: Applicants must possess and maintain all of the following while employed by the City of St. Louis: a Missouri EMT-P (Emergency Medical Technician-Paramedic) License and a valid driver's license.
Scoring Components and Their Weights
Experience and Training: 100%
May be Subject to:
Background Investigation: Pass/Fail
Medical Examination: Pass/Fail
Documentation of Academic Credentials must be Submitted Upon Request
When completing the Employment History and the Educational/Training History sections of the Employment Application, please be as thorough as possible when describing your education, training and experience relating to this position. Applicants will only receive credit for their experience, training and education as shown on the application. Resumes will not be accepted as a substitute to a fully completed application. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
Veterans Preference Points
To be eligible for veteran's preference points, the applicant must submit a copy of their DD 214 Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty with the Employment Application or upon request. The Director of Personnel may, in their discretion, accept alternate documentation.
City Residence Preference Points
City residents who pass an examination for a position in the classified service and do not receive any other preference will receive a five (5) point preference on a scale of 100 points on the exam. An additional one (1) point shall be added to the passing score of City residents who receive any other preference on a scale of 100 points. City residents must have resided in the City for at least one (1) year at the time of filing their application to be eligible for the preference points.
Accommodations
If assistance with the job application is necessary based on a physical impairment, mental impairment, or otherwise, they should reach out to the Office on the Disabled with contact information. This office will not disclose any information that an applicant or employee has a disability or has discussed possible accommodations without the applicant's or employee's prior consent.
