General Nature of Work
The purpose of this position is to manage the Gilmer County Fire Department EMS Division. The EMS Chief will be responsible for personnel management and personnel hiring with coordination with Human Resources including coordination with outside agencies and medical direction, maintain federal, state, and local requirements and certification levels, department training, and overall guidance and direction of the division.
Job Responsibilities
- Performs an annual Risk Analysis of EMS Operations to enhance programs that will mitigate injuries to personnel and malpractice circumstances to increase operational efficiency and safety measures pertaining to the EMS Division. Identify these goals in accordance with the organization’s Strategic and Capital Asset Improvement Plans.
- Perform as a member of the Command Staff and General Staff and able to perform in different ICS roles as needed based on incident typing.
- Works closely with EMS Billing contracted vendor to ensure best practices are being utilized.
- EMS Program Management – research, develop, and implement best practices for emergency medical response. Conduct research to ensure that the best level of service is being provided to the community.
- Community Paramedicine Management – research, develop, and implement best practices for community paramedicine program.
- Support EMS crews by ensuring readiness to all emergency responses through training, education, and equipment.
- Supervision of all EMS shift operations; ensuring they are being ran efficiency, patient care is being delivered at a high standard, and patient care reports are completed in the required time.
- Coordinates care and interoperability between outside EMS agencies, hospitals, and medical direction.
- Facilitate and coordinate the staffing of ambulances with the Shift Staffing Officer.
- Coordinate and complete annual and routine personnel reviews with Shift Officers.
- Completes necessary employee coach/counseling, written performance plans, and appropriate discipline when required.
- Responsible for coordinating Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) certification training during fire department academies.
- Facilitate / Coordinate Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) & Quality Assurance (CQA) programs to ensure standards are being met, identify any training needs, and develop the training needed to correct the related concerns.
- Responsible for the EMS budget to purchase supplies, equipment, training devices, and monitor contracts with vendors and cooperating agencies. Monitors the budget throughout the year. Designs, maintains, and deploys a system for ordering, tracking, and delivering EMS supplies and equipment.
- Coordinate and conduct the hiring of EMS Professionals to ensure full staffing of all shifts.
- Develop, deploy, and maintain a schedule for the maintenance and upkeep of EMS equipment to include, but not limited to; patient handling and lifting systems, AED’s, defibrillators, and suction units.
- Assist in the design and planning efforts of new ambulances.
- Develop, deploy, and design an annual EMS Work Performance Evaluation for EMS personnel.
- Monitor EMS Legislative issues and concerns, involvement in appropriate EMS professional organizations, and attend State EMS Commission meetings as needed.
- Perform other administrative responsibilities for the Division as requested by the Deputy Chief and/or Fire Chief.
Additional Responsibilities
- Performs other related duties as required.
Knowledge, Ability And Skills
- Data Utilization: Requires the ability to coordinate, manage, and/or correlate data. Includes exercising judgment in determining time, place and/or sequence of operations, referencing data analyses to determine necessity for revision of organizational components, and in the formulation of operational strategy.
- Human Interaction: Requires the ability to work with others to coordinate the more complex programs and more complex problems associated with the responsibilities of the job. Often represents the department and/or organization when dealing with others. Requires the ability to act as a first-line supervisor, including instructing, assigning and reviewing work, maintaining standards, coordinating activities, and evaluating employee job performance.
- Equipment, Machinery, Tools, and Materials Utilization: Requires the ability to operate, maneuver and/or control the actions of equipment, machinery, tools, and/or materials used in performing essential functions.
- Verbal Aptitude: Requires the ability to utilize a wide variety of reference and descriptive data and information.
- Mathematical Aptitude: Requires the ability to perform moderately complex algebraic and geometric operations; ability to utilize principles of basic probability and statistical inference.
- Functional Reasoning: Requires the ability to apply principles of influence systems, such as motivation, incentive, and leadership, and to exercise independent judgment to apply facts and principles for developing approaches and techniques to resolve problems.
- Situational Reasoning: Requires the ability to exercise judgment, decisiveness and creativity in situations involving broader aspects of organizational programs and operations, moderately unstable situations, or the direction, control and planning of an entire program or set of programs.
Minimum Qualifications
- Must be a Certified Georgia / NPQ Firefighter II
- Must have a valid Georgia Class F Driver License or greater.
- Must have a High School Diploma or GED equivalent.
- Must be able to pass an extensive GCIC and NCIC background examination.
- Must have the ability to meet the physical and academic requirements set forth by Georgia Firefighter Standards and Training Council and Georgia Department of Public Health.
- Must be medically trained to the level of EMT-I or greater.
- Must have 10 or more years of career fire service experience with progressive leadership roles.
- Must have served 3 or more years at the rank of Lieutenant or greater in a career department.
- Must be trained to the level of Fire Officer I (Or Equivalent) see below:
- Instructor I
- Preparations for Initial Company Operations (PICO) or equivalent
- Strategies and Tactics for Initial Company Operations (STICO) or equivalent
- Decision Making for Initial Company Operations (DMICO) or equivalent.
- Acting Officer in Charge (AOIC)
- Transitional and Interpersonal Leadership Training (TILT)
- Fire Department Leadership, and Supervision Series
Preferred Qualifications
- NPQ Fire Officer II or greater
- Instructor II or greater
- Live Fire Instructor
- Fire Life Safety Educator
- Fire Inspector
- Special Operations training and experience such as: Rope / Technical Rescue, Swift Water / Swim Rescue, Land SAR, Public Safety Diver
- NIMS 300 and 400 or completed within 1 year of employment.
- Associates/Bachelors Degree from an accredited University in Fire Science, Emergency Medicine, or Emergency Management.
ADA Requirements: Individuals applying for the posted position must be able to perform the essential functions of the position with or without reasonable accommodation.
Physical Requirements: Tasks require the ability to exert moderate, though not constant physical effort, typically involving some combination of climbing and balancing, stooping, kneeling, crouching, and crawling, and which may involve some lifting, carrying, pushing and/or pulling of objects and materials of moderate weight (50-100 pounds).
Work Environment: Performance of essential functions may require exposure to outside weather conditions and with ammunition. The employee occasionally works near moving mechanical parts and in high, precarious places, and is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, fumes, or airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, and risk of electrical shock. Work is performed in both daylight and at night and may be required to travel speeds more than posted limits through areas of varying population densities and traffic congestion, and in inclement weather conditions. Work involves exposure to personal danger and psychological stress.
