San Marcos/Hays County Emergency Medical Services is currently accepting applica

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San Marcos/Hays County Emergency Medical Services is currently accepting

applications for Paramedics

Hiring Process is Wednesday May 6th 2009 8am

Application Deadline: May 5th 5pm 2009

SM/HC EMS main offices are located in beautiful San Marcos, Texas. We provide

911 coverage to the majority of Hays County.

Personnel: We have a great group of field personnel – 39 FT Paramedics, 12

EMT-B/EMT-I and 30 PRN Paramedics, EMT-B and EMT-I. (4 Ambulances are staffed

Paramedic/Basic and 4 ambulances are staffed Paramedic/Paramedic). Included in

the field personnel are 3 Commanders, 6 Station Captains, 5 Field Training

Officers, 1 Maintenance Captain and 1 Community Education Coordinator. Our

personel are actively involved in the yearly re-evaluation of protocols and

equipment through committees that meet throughout the year.

Medical Director: Dr. McNeill

Director of EMS – Tom Partin

Director of Operations - R. Moseley

Call Volume: 9000 calls per year, though somewhat unevenly distributed, is less

than 4 calls per unit / per 24hr shift. Call volumes are higher in the City of

San Marcos and lower in the Buda and Dripping Springs areas.

Protocols- Aggressive and progressive including in field C-spine clearance, EZ

IO, Rapid Sequence Induction and STEMI Program including field administration of

Heparin and Plavix. We encourage our staff to seek higher standards of care with

Airway Boot Camps and a variety of lively discussions with our Medical Director

at monthly Medical Review.

Ambulances: Frazier Ambulances on Ford and GMC Chassis.

Schedule: Modified School Schedule(M,W)(Tu,Th)(Swing) – Schedules repeat every

three weeks for an average of 10 shifts a month. Our schedule is helpful to

those employees seeking to further their education.

- Sample Schedule-

Tuesday, Friday, Sunday – Thursday, Saturday – Tuesday, Thursday - then back to

week one

Salary: Regular hourly pay to 40hrs per week – All hours over 40 per week paid

at time and a half.

Paramedics Starting at $40,000 to $43,000 based on prior experience.

EMT-B / EMT-I Starting at $33,000 to $36,600 based on prior experience.

Benefits:

Paid Time Off –Combined Sick and Vacation time (10% of Base Pay) – Equaling

about 13 paid shifts off per year. Unused PTO may be taken as pay at the end of

the fiscal year or rolled into the current year.

Retirement: Employer contribution after first year of employment – Starting at

4% of base pay and increasing 1% per year to a maximum of 7% of base pay per

year.

* Base Pay is the total hours (regular and overtime) worked on regular schedule

and does not include any additional open shifts picked up by the employee as

overtime.

Employer provided – Medical Insurance (PPO Humana), Life Insurance, Workers

Compensation Insurance.

Family Medical insurance, Dental and Aflac are available.

Wednesday May 6th 2009

Application Deadline: May 5th 5pm 2009

Please go to http://smhcems.com for application and further information