AirCare Base Supervisor - MS Center for Emergency Services (MCES)

Provides critical care and emergency treatment/transport in the pre-hospital, disaster and hospital environment. Supervises base operations to ensure a constant state of readiness, addresses base level issues and elevates concerns to program leadership as needed.

Job Requisition ID: R00042498

Job Category: Professional and Technical

Organization: MS Center for Emergency Services

Location: Main Campus Jackson

Job Summary:

Provides critical care and emergency treatment/transport in the pre-hospital, disaster and hospital environment. Supervises base operations to ensure a constant state of readiness, addresses base level issues and elevates concerns to program leadership as needed.

Education & Experience:

Associates' degree in healthcare or a related field and three years of related pre-hospital or ER/ICU experience to include one year of critical care transport experience. Maximum weight limit of 250 pounds when fully clothed. Individual must be able to lift a patient weighing 250 pounds onto a stretcher and to carry said patient and stretcher for a minimum of fifty (50) feet and load patient and stretcher into a helicopter or other vehicle, with the help of other provider.

Certifications, licenses or registration required: Valid driver's license, certification as a Mississippi paramedic and Mississippi critical care paramedic, or Mississippi RN. If Paramedic or Critical Care Paramedic, certification as NRP (Nationally Registered Paramedic) required. Basic life support, advanced cardiac life support, pediatric advanced life support, neonatal resuscitation certified, NIMS (ICS 100 and 700), trauma course equivalent to BTLS, PHTLS, or ITLS.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

Knowledge of the information and techniques necessary to identify, diagnose and treat injuries and disease for adult, pediatric and neonatal patients. Knowledge of agents, equipment, procedures, and techniques for the provision of emergency and critical care for inter-facility and scene transports. Verbal and written communication skills. Ability to provide physical and psychological treatment and comfort. Ability to work calmly under stressful conditions. Ability to withstand exposure to noise, external weather conditions and high altitudes.

Responsibilities:

• Provides physical and psychological comfort to patients. Monitors patient condition during transport and adverse reactions to drugs of treatment.
• Acts as the initial contact point/liaison for all MCES operations in a defined regional area or as assigned by MCES leadership. Will escalate issues or opportunities to MCES leadership as appropriate.
• Ensures the proper functioning and inventory of communications equipment, medical transport equipment, and supplies. Reports equipment failures.
• Promotes positive image of UMMC by participating in community outreach and education. Will represent the base or program at assigned meetings such as but not limited to customer QA/PI meeting, systems of care meetings, requested meetings to address concerns.
• Maintains sterilizes and cleans transport medical equipment to ensure the safety of patients in accordance with UMMC standards and protocols.
• Evaluates plans, provides and documents care for patients in the disaster, transport (air/ground), and/or the out of hospital environment.
• Ensures compliance of patient transport and all base operations as it pertains to hospital policy, state and federal laws/regulations, as well as accreditation standards, prepares and maintains applicable reports and documentation.
• Ensures overall readiness of the base and transport operations through the ordering of supplies, scheduling, inventory, confirming checklists are complete, addressing staffing issues and reporting issues beyond the base level to program leadership. Performs other duties as necessary or assigned to ensure proper functioning of assigned base or program.
• Works with appropriate vendors to coordinate maintenance and ensure proper communication and reporting of issues to leadership.
• Collaborates with educator/leadership to ensure base level or assist in program wide education/training/checkoffs/orientation.
• May be required to work unusual hours, irregular shifts or at different locations on short notice.
• The duties listed are general in nature and are examples of the duties and responsibilities performed and are not meant to be construed as exclusive or all-inclusive. Management retains the right to add or change duties at any time.

Physical and Environmental Demands:

Requires frequent exposure to unpleasant or disagreeable physical environment such as high noise level and exposure to heat and cold, frequent handling or working with potentially dangerous equipment, frequent exposure to bio-hazardous conditions such as risk of radiation exposure, blood borne pathogens, fumes or airborne particles, and/or toxic or caustic chemicals which mandate attention to safety considerations, frequent working hours significantly beyond regularly scheduled hours, frequent travelling to offsite locations, frequent activities subject to significant volume changes of a seasonal/clinical nature, frequent work produced subject to precise measures of quantity and quality, frequent bending, frequent lifting and carrying more than 100 pounds, frequent climbing, frequent crawling, frequent crouching/stooping, frequent driving, frequent kneeling, frequent pushing/pulling, frequent reaching, frequent sitting, frequent standing, frequent twisting, and frequent walking. (occasional-up to 20%, frequent-from 21% to 50%, constant-51% or more)

Time Type: Full time

FLSA Designation/Job Exempt: No

Pay Class: Hourly

FTE %: 100

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Benefits Eligibility:

Grant Funded:

Job Posting Date: 07/7/2025

Job Closing Date (open until filled if no date specified):