Detroit Medical Center is hiring: ED Communication Specialist Full Time Nights i

ED Communication Specialist Full Time Nights

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DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital is DMC’s largest hospital, offering a comprehensive heart center, cancer care, gerontology, emergency medicine, obstetrics/gynecology and cosmetic services. Sinai-Grace’s joint replacement program features a revolutionary minimally invasive knee and hip replacement surgery that attracts patients from all over the country. Sinai-Grace operates more than 21 outpatient care sites and ambulatory surgery centers throughout Wayne and Oakland Counties and is one of 10 hospitals in the nation to be awarded a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant to help set the standards of cardiac care for hospitals and physicians throughout the nation.

Responsibilities

• Expedites and coordinates all transfers from external facilities.


• Coordinates and activates STEMI process, stroke team notification, major communicable disease response team, chempack team, decontamination team, all communications from outside agencies regarding acts of bio-terrorism/decontamination/code yellow; activates trauma pager.


• Handles operations of all communication equipment utilized to receive notification of critical patients transports, disasters, or mass casualty events by responding to HEAR radio, Region 2 South 800 MHz HEMS radio, life-net RS 12 lead receiving stations, care point receiving monitor, UHF receiving station, telemetry, EM TRAX, EMResource.


• Maintains appropriate log sheets, and data.


• Attends appropriate trauma systems monthly meetings.


• Telemetry response.


• Performs other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• High School graduation or equivalent.


• Current Basic Life Support (BLS) Certification.


• State of Michigan license for Emergency Medical Technician.


• One or two years experience as EMT, preferred.

Job: Emergency/EMT/Paramedic

Primary Location: Detroit, Michigan

Facility: DMC Sinai-Grace Hospital

Job Type: Full Time

Shift Type: Night

Employment practices will not be influenced or affected by an applicant’s or employee’s race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status or any other legally protected status. Tenet will make reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities unless doing so would result in an undue hardship.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Marketing, Public Relations, and Writing/Editing

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care and Medical Practices