Lima Allen County Paramedics, an Advance Life Support (ALS) primary response and transport service, is currently accepting applications for qualified EMTs, Paramedics, and dispatchers as we expand our service to accommodate our call volume growth.  To apply for a position please, feel free to contact LACP via information on contact page. 

    Anyone visiting this page in interest in pursuing a career or job potentiality in EMS but unsure in educational steps needed can visit the following links to educational sites in the local area that we are affiliated as a clinical instructional site.

    Basic EMT training- Apollo Career Center

    Intermediate and Paramedic training- Rhodes State College

    Lima Allen County Paramedics

    LACP provides primary 9-1-1 services as well as ALS inter-facility transports.  LACP staffs 24 hour shifts via full-time 24 hour shift workers as well as part-time staffing in 8 hour blocking.  There are also other time slots available to cover peak load time and special events.

    Employment process

You must also pass a written pre-employment test with a score of no less than eighty-six percent (86%).

 SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS :  An employee must possess the following abilities:

                                                                                                                                                                    ●Motor coordination in administrating emergency care of the critically ill and injured, in lifting and carrying patients, and in driving the ambulance

●Manual dexterity and physical coordination in carrying, lifting, extricating, climbing, hoisting and other similar maneuvers in a manner not detrimental to the patient, a co-worker, or to self

●Ability to give and/or receive verbal and written directions and instructions in an objective and understandable manner

 PERSONAL QUALITIES:  An employee must:

            ●Maintain a pleasant personality

            ●Maintain neat and clean appearance

            ●Maintain both local and state minimum requirements of continuing education

            ●Possess leadership ability; be firm, yet courteous

            ●Possess the ability to make sound and reasonable judgements

            ●Possess good moral character

            ●Possess stability and psychological adaptability

 PHYSICAL DEMANDS:  An employee must:

            ●Possess and maintain a valid Ohio drivers license

            ●Possess and maintain normal, good health

            ●Possess the ability to lift and carry at least two hundred (200) pounds

    ●Possess the ability to sit, hear, talk, smell and taste

    ●Possess the ability to stand, walk, run; use hands to finger, handle or operate objects, controls or tools; reach with hands and arms, climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, or perform any other physical actions necessary to provide EMS

    ●Possess visual color discrimination in examining patients and determining, by appearance, diagnostic signs that require immediate detection and proper action as well as to distinguish traffics signs and lights

    ●Possess both far and near visual acuity along with peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus for driving and examining the patient (correction via corrective lenses permitted)

    ●Possess the ability to pass physical agility test as described in detail on next page

WORK ENVIRONMENT: An employee understands that they will be working in outside weather conditions, near moving mechanical parts, high and/or precarious places, required to concentrate on fine details with multiple distractions, and have the possibility of being exposed to fumes, airborne particles, toxic or caustic chemicals, extreme cold, extreme heat, vibrations, confined work spaces, or hostile environments.

PHYSICAL AGILITY: An employee must pass a physical agility test prior to clearance of ride along time for employment.  If physical is not passed under the supervision of the hiring officer and the field training officer, the candidate will not be allowed to test again for one year from the date of the physical agility testing.  It is also the understanding of the prospective employee that they are taking the physical agility testing under their own free will and any physical injury that might occur is not the responsibility of Lima Allen County Paramedics.  These are some of the testing stations that are used: 

        ●Removal of patient down flight of stairs using stair chair

●Carrying drug box, monitor, and other essential equipment down flight of stairs

●Carrying patient and equipment up a flight of stairs

●Perform CPR and airway intervention similar to real field situation

●Load patient onto cot and secure according to cot operation guidelines

●Place cot and secure into ambulance

●Perform a lift of 200 lbs without assistance