Dispatcher/ Office Administrator

FIRST RESPONSE EMS

Dispatcher/ Office Administrator

Warren, MI
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Benefits:

    Bonus based on performance

    Company parties

    Competitive salary

    Dental insurance

    Health insurance

    Paid time off

    Signing bonus

    Training & development

    Tuition assistance

    General Summary: Dispatchers answers and responds to any emergency or non-emergency calls to provide assistance or important information. Dispatchers are part of our team of healthcare professionals attending out-of-hospital medical incidents and inter-facility medical transports. Their main duties include logging each call, providing answers to questions by retrieving information from the necessary departments and supervising the field units’ routes to prioritize and organize their schedules.

    Principle Duties and Responsibilities:

    1. To receive and confirm All assignments for the day
    2. To calculate time and distance between assignments
    3. To coordinate assignments and units, then produce a schedule and get it
    4. approved prior to assigning drivers
    5. To communicate with ALL units operating in the field and know there
    6. whereabouts ALWAYS
    7. To control all communications via the radio system including landline and
    8. cellular communications
    9. To keep a log of ALL communication equipment and it’s user
    10. Institute a system for accountability for units, patients, equipment and
    11. information
    12. To keep Supervisors updated as to the day to day operations of the units
    13. Organize, allocate and catalogue ALL company resources
    14. Write and submit concrete and accurate reports on incidents
    15. Adhere to established medical protocols and procedures as well as legal guidelines and health and safety standards
    16. Keep abreast with new guidelines and procedures through continuous training
    17. Keeping work environment clean
    18. All other assigned tasked Working conditions: Office environment,, desk sitting

    Knowledge, skills, experience required:

    1. Receive emergency and non-emergency calls and record significant information
    2. Address problems and requests by transmitting information or providing
    3. solutions
    4. Receive and dispatch orders for products or deliveries
    5. Prioritize calls according to urgency and importance
    6. Use radio, phone or computer to send crews, vehicles or other field units
    7. to appropriate locations
    8. Monitor the route and status of field units to coordinate and prioritize
    9. their schedule
    10. Provide field units with information about orders, traffic, obstacles and
    11. requirements
    12. Enter data in computer system and maintain logs and records of calls,
    13. Activities and other information
    14. 1-2 years of previous experience