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This is your moment to join one of the nation’s premier academic health systems as a Medical Transport Communications Specialist. In this fast-paced role, you’ll coordinate emergency ground and air transport, consult with EMS partners, and help ensure every patient transfer is safe, efficient, and clinically sound.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead the Movement: Coordinate the deployment of ground and air medical teams across the UVA-Medical Transport Network.

• Consult and Collaborate: Work closely with EMS providers, hospital teams, and external partners to ensure seamless patient transfers and emergency response.

• Drive Critical Communication: Be the central voice connecting internal medical teams and external agencies—every call you take moves care forward.

Why This Role is a Game-Changer:

• Perfect for EMTs & Paramedics: Expand your clinical knowledge, sharpen your systems thinking, and gain exposure to complex medical logistics.

• Challenge Yourself Daily: No two shifts are the same. You’ll be at the center of high-stakes decisions that directly impact patient outcomes.

• Grow with Purpose: This is more than dispatch—it’s a launchpad for EMS professionals ready to evolve their careers in a fast-paced, academic medical environment.

Benefits of Joining UVA Health:

• Comprehensive Coverage: Medical, dental, and vision insurance to keep you and your family healthy.

• Financial Security: Retirement savings plans with matching contributions and life insurance options.

• Time to Recharge: Generous paid time off, holidays, and leave programs.

• Career Advancement: Access to a Clinical Career Ladder, tuition assistance, and leadership development.

• Wellness & Support: Employee wellness programs, mental health resources, and a culture that values your well-being.

+ Understands and properly uses all communication equipment and programs.

+ Maintains safety as a primary role throughout all aspects of transport team resource coordination and multi-mode tracking of transport assets (ground vehicles and aircraft).

+ Identifies potential areas for improved care.

+ Interfaces effectively with peers and customers and assumes responsibility for professional development of self and others per department policy.

+ Performs mission critical tasks in support of patient care, emergency response, and multi-departmental support.

+ In addition to the above job responsibilities, other duties may be assigned

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

**Education:** High School Graduate or Equivalent required.

**Experience:** Communications center experience and/or basic dispatcher course/dispatch experience preferred.

**Licensure:** Certification as an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) in the Commonwealth of Virginia required. AHA Health Care Provider BLS CPR certification required. Must obtain Advanced EMT certification or higher within three years of hire.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

Job requires sitting for prolonged periods, frequently typing/traveling and multi-tasking activities. Proficient communicative, auditory and visual skills; Attention to detail and ability to write legibly; Ability to lift/push/pull > 20lbs. May be exposed to fumes, heat, noise, High-stress environment and environment prone to high-capacity sensory stimulation.

Position Compensation Range: $15.07 - $30.14 Hourly

Benefits

+ Comprehensive Benefits Package: Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance

+ Paid Time Off, Long-term and Short-term Disability, Retirement Savings

+ Health Saving Plans, and Flexible Spending Accounts

+ Certification and education support

+ Generous Paid Time Off

UVA Health (https://jobs.virginia.edu/why-uva-health) is a world-class Magnet Recognized academic medical center and health system with a level 1 trauma center. 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report “Best Hospitals” guide (https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/va/university-of-virginia-medical-center-6344000) rates UVA Health University Medical Center as “High Performing” in 5 adult specialties and 14 conditions/procedures. We are one of 70 National Cancer Institute designated cancer centers. UVA Health Children’s (https://jobs.virginia.edu/uva-childrens) is named by 2023-2024 U.S. News & World Report (https://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/area/va/university-of-virginia-childrens-hospital-PA6344000) as the best children's hospital in Virginia with 9 specialties ranked among the best in the nation. Our footprint also encompasses 3 community hospitals and an integrated network of primary and specialty care clinics throughout Charlottesville, Culpeper, Northern Virginia, and beyond.