Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Join Decypher and make a direct impact on the health and readiness of Americas service members, veterans, and their families. Since 2008 Decypher has offered healthcare industry professionals careers where their expertise is valued, and their work makes a meaningful impact. Decypher partners with the Defense Health Agency to deliver professional services, technology, and management solutions. Our mission is to provide and support quality care for our veterans, servicemembers and their families, across the United States.

Job Summary: EMT Paramedic will provide on-site medical assessment, triage, and emergency response for high-risk training environments, ensuring appropriate care, stabilization, and coordination with medical facilities and multidisciplinary teams. Maintains accurate medical records, monitors student health, and supports recovery and performance through collaboration with healthcare professionals and adherence to established protocols.

Required Qualifications:

• Education: Possess a High School Diploma, or equivalent.
• Certifications:
  • Basic Life Support (BLS). Current National EMT-P Certification (National Registry) or state license at the EMT-Paramedic level, or higher. Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support training.
  • Successful completion of a Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Program (CAAHEP-accredited Paramedic program) (or a program that has been issued a CoAEMSP "Letter of Review") within the past two (2) years.
• License: All Paramedics who started their Paramedic education program after August 1, 2016 are required to successfully complete a psychomotor competency portfolio.
• Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience.

U.S. Citizenship is required

Key Responsibilities:

• Assess a patients condition and determine a course of treatment per local protocol.
• Provide triage for student(s) incapable to perform in training due to medical and musculoskeletal reasons. Triage will be used to determine: - If student is stable refer all medical conditions to the base Flight Medicine Clinic. - If student is stable with exclusively musculoskeletal condition refer to Athletic Trainers for assessment and reconditioning. - If student is unstable will activate Emergency Management System (EMS) and arrange for transport to nearest emergency center.
• Assigned to student flight for medical monitoring of all high-risk training event modules to provide medical coverage and monitoring that include aquatic and land-based training.
• Respond, stabilize, and activate EMS in response to physical trauma, heat stroke, near drowning episodes or other emergencies.
• Summarize nature of injury and emergency care rendered to the receiving EMS responders.
• Inventory, replace, and clean all supplies and equipment after use.
• Work with a multidisciplinary human performance team that includes other medical professionals to ensure the proper care and health monitoring of all students (i.e., physicians, sports medicine provider, athletic trainers, physical therapists, operational psychologists, strength coaches, etc.).
• Coordinate with contracted or military medical director, government supervisor, preceptor and /or lead paramedic daily for proper medical oversight and direction in accordance with national and state EMT-P and Paramedic guidelines.
• Keep accurate records of all injuries, method of treatment, rehabilitation, and medical releases. During normal operations, provide relevant information to SW medical staff to support the students medical needs.

Work Environment & Schedule: Work a non-standard schedule, extended hours, and/or rotating shifts which may include early mornings, evenings, nights, weekends, and/or holidays, but not to exceed 40 hours per week (Sunday to Saturday). Needs to be flexible and may need to deviate from the typical work week schedule.

Compensation & Benefits: Up to $ 59,500 + Benefits

Physical Requirements :

• The work requires some physical exertion, such as walking over rough, uneven, or rocky surfaces as well as time spent outdoors in extreme temperatures and variable weather conditions. Work can require prolonged standing indoors or outdoors, bending, reaching, and lifting up to 50 lbs. Required to maintain strength, coordination, and stamina to manage and operate exercise and medical equipment.
• Physical conditioning must be sufficient to demonstrate and perform various exercise procedures and the ability to perform under stress, including lifting heavy weights potentially up to 100 lbs., squatting, sitting, running, jumping, bending, walking, crawling (low/high profile) for up to 25 meters, and prolonged standing.
• Ability to move over, around, and through obstacles to a height of 10 feet, and up to 1.5 mile over rough terrain in extreme temperatures.
• Visits or extended duties in these locations or sites are necessary to observe performance/events, to survey, to conduct planning, etcetera to ensure mission accomplishment. Some agility and strength may be required in executing medical coverage in these operational environments.
• Work may require travel away from the normal duty station in order to support training requirements

Decypher is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce (M/F/D/V)

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