**Job Summary and Responsibilities** 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. **Job Requirements** **Minimum Qualifications:** + High School Graduate and Six months experience as a paramedicwith an accredited EMS agency or FireDepartment. Hiring manager may considerthe applicants field internship as qualifyingexperience if the preceptorship wascompleted at a Dignity Health NorthService Area facility and successfullycompleted., upon hire or + Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic: CA, upon hire and + Basic Life Support - CPR, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association) + Advanced Cardiac Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association) + Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire and (Must be through the American Heart Association) + CDMC, upon hire and + Certified Ambulance Driver: CA, upon hire and + Driver's License: CA, upon hire and + Local Paramedic Accrediated, upon hire **Where You'll Work** For more than 70 years, Mercy Medical Center Redding has offered comprehensive health care in the North State, providing acute care and a full range of medical services. The 267-bed hospital offers major medical services including a Level II Trauma Center as well as specialized Cardiovascular Care, Stroke Care, Orthopedics, Neurological Surgery, Comprehensive Cancer Care, Maternity Care, and da Vinci Robotic Surgery. It is the sole provider of obstetrical services, along with the only Level III Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Shasta County. In addition, the hospital’s network of care includes Mercy Home Health and Hospice and Dignity Health Connected Living. Mercy Medical Center Redding is a member of the Dignity Health system and is a sister facility to St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Red Bluff and Mercy Medical Center Mt. Shasta. As one of the area’s largest not-for-profit employers, we are proud to give back to the community by providing many programs and services to benefit overall health. Visit here (https://www.dignityhealth.org/north-state/locations/mercy-redding) to learn more. One Community. One Mission. One California (https://youtu.be/RrPuiSnALJY?si=pvQgPZ6ZWZM60TPV) **Pay Range** $43.12 - $49.71 /hour We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.