County EMS promotes nine paramedics

The Hamilton County Emergency Management Services has promoted nine paramedics to the newly created positions of senior paramedic. This new assignment will carry the rank of sergeant within the overall scope of the command structure.

In the new positions, senior paramedics will be functioning as field training officers and will be working with new employees to provide orientation training, oversight preceptorship and field training, as well as field and clinical training for student EMTs and paramedics from the area community colleges. In addition, the senior paramedics will provide remediation or additional training for current employees in all areas as required in the field and on the job.

“This allows us to expand our scope of training where the people providing the training are actually on the job in the field and can consistently work with medics while on site developing skills that go beyond classroom training,” HCEMS Director Ken Wilkerson said.

Wilkerson the new positions and promotions from within HCEMS required four years of field experience as a paramedic and three years of service with HCEMS.

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