Paramedic Medical Instructor – Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)
Leidos
- Burke, VA
- $87,100-157,450 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Preparing materials and equipment for Trauma Responder Workshops,
- Delivering course content via lecture, interactive activities, skills stations, and training scenarios, tailored towards non-medical adult learners,
- Supervise skills stations and training scenarios, providing guidance and correction as needed,
- Maintaining Workshop materials and equipment,
- Conducting post-Workshop reviews and activities,
- Performing logistical and administrative duties in support of Workshops or other client classes/requirements, to include providing backup support to the Workshop Registrar as needed,
- Applying advanced medic skills to support training of personnel deploying to potentially austere environments,
- Supporting high-risk, high-stress training, staff sustainment training, and direct medical training with a focus on medical quality assurance,
- Educating and training non-medical personnel with a specific focus on primary care techniques,
- Maintaining current knowledge in the subject matter area and staying abreast of effective teaching and adult learning strategies,
- Developing solutions which may require analysis and understanding of possible solutions/scenairos,
- Working independently as needed to achieve day-to-day objectives,
- Coordinating with other team members and medical staff as needed,
- Providing surge supports to other areas of the program/department as needed, and
- Deploying for short duration TDYs as needed to deliver Workshops.
- Top Secret SCI security clearance with polygraph is required – we are seeking both fully cleared candidates and candidates interested in obtaining or upgrading their security clearance,
- National certification in respective field (NREMT-P, combat medic, or equivalent),
- At least four years of teaching experience,
- Ability to develop lesson plans and create course data as needed,
- Enthusiasm for teaching and the subject matter,
- Ability to deliver course content according to the established time allotments,
- Strong prehospital emergency medicine clinical skills (EKG, phlebotomy, triage, trauma assessments, etc.),
- Firm knowledge of medical terminology, anatomy and physiology, and patient education,
- Experience in providing high-stress training to include various medical trainings,
- Excellent organizational and communication skills,
- Foundational understanding of and ability to apply best practices and broad understanding of other related specialty areas,
- Current CPR certification,
- Highly organized and detail oriented, and
- Ability to meet client’s deployment fitness for duty standards.
- BS and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. Four (4) years of experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
- Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) certification
- Experience working in a war zone or austere environment