Flight Paramedic

UPMC is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Professional Flight Paramedic to join our team at the UPMC Center for Emergency Medicine. As a critical care transport specialist, you will be responsible for providing advanced life support to critically ill or injured patients transported by the STAT MedEvac system.

• Provide advanced critical care life support to patients in adherence with established protocols and standards of care.
• Assess, stabilize, and intervene in the care of critically ill or injured patients.
• Document patient information, including assessment, interventions, and other pertinent details.
• Collect and process demographic, medical necessity, and other necessary billing information.
• Participate in the peer-review driven quality improvement program.

• High School Diploma or Equivalent.
• Minimum of three years of experience at an ALS service.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment physical exam, including a maximum height/weight restriction of 6-2 and less than or equal to 210 pounds, fitness for duty physical exam, hearing evaluation, and be declared fit for duty by the Medical Director.
• Eligibility to receive medical command authorization by the Medical Director.
• Reliable transportation and willingness to travel to any STAT MedEvac base site as assigned.
• Ability to work productively and effectively within a complex environment, handle multiple/changing priorities, and specialized equipment.

• Act 34.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS).
• Advanced Trauma Life Support OR International Trauma Life Support OR Prehospital Trauma Life Support OR Trauma Nursing Core Course.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
• Certified Flight Paramedic.
• Driver's License.
• Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic.
• National Incident Management System Incident Command (within 90 days of hire).
• National Incident Management System Introduction Course (within 90 days of hire).
• National Incident Management System Single Resources (within 90 days of hire).
• National Institute of Health Stroke Scale Certification (within 90 days of hire).
• National Registry Emergency Medical Technician Paramedic (NREMT-P).
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP).
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS).
• Trauma Nursing Core Course OR Intl Trauma Life Support OR Adv Trauma Life Support OR Prehospital Trauma Life Supp (one required within 90 days of hire).
• United States Passport.

UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.