Let Us Customize a Program for Your Agency!

Countless fire departments across California have forged a creative partnership with Employment Systems to develop an Ambulance Operator program that brings exceptional benefits to their cities and their citizens.

Our Ambulance Operator Program Lets You:

• Focus more resources on emergency preparedness and the professional firefighting workforce
• Make ambulance service an integral part of emergency response by your agency — which enhances the overall service to your community
• Provide your city with another source of revenue from an enhanced emergency response system (such as the City of Huntington Beach's award-winning FireMed Program)
• Capitalize on the community relations and public goodwill opportunities that flow from such programs
• Relieve your municipal administrative support staff of the burden of additional employees, payroll, and record keeping

Why Employment Systems?

Employment Systems has specialized in implementing Ambulance Operator programs since 1993. We can customize our recruitment for your area or your city, too. Plus, our in-depth experience makes resolving the recruitment, employment, payroll, worker's comp, and related issues involved with Ambulance Operator programs simpler for you.

Just What is an Ambulance Operator Program?

When a city decides to offer ambulance service itself, it can either use fire department personnel or a company like Employment Systems to provide certified EMTs to operate the ambulances. If you implement Employment Systems' program, the fire department's professional staff is freed up to provide firefighting and paramedic services without being taken off the truck to drive an ambulance.

The program isn't meant to take jobs away from firefighters; instead, it allows those critical personnel to focus their valuable skills where they're needed most.

Our unique program operates on a paid internship basis, where each Ambulance Operator is hired for a limited duration. But, as private employees working through our company, they can be hired at a wage rate determined by the fire department and with a benefits package common to such programs. We can ramp up the number of Ambulance Operators or pare them down, based upon your department's needs or your city's demand for service.

What Kind of People Are Employment Systems Ambulance Operators?

Our employees who participate in the Ambulance Operator program are unusually motivated to find experience that helps them pursue their goals of becoming professional firefighters or other emergency-response personnel. While they cannot be involved in any actual firefighting duties during the internship, they can function in many other ways that leaves your professional response people free to do their jobs better.

We require the following education and certifications for an Ambulance Operator:

• High school diploma or equivalent
• CA Certified EMT1
• CPR certification
• CA Class C driver license (and Ambulance Driver Certificate or endorsement)
• Some fire-science coursework at a post-secondary level

We also employ AOs who have completed the CA Fire Academy curriculum. You set the standards, so you get exactly the skill level you need.

What Services Does Employment Systems Provide?

Employment Systems is devoted to ensuring client fire departments get a lot of "bang for the buck," and also that the department as well as the employee are happy and well suited to each other.

Some of the services we offer as part of our AO program include:

• Extensive recruitment services to source qualified candidates
• Extensive administrative support during the selection process, such as proctoring exams and coordinating interviews
• Maintenance and administration of an eligibility list
• New-hire orientation to supplement your in-house Ambulance Operator training
• Administration of the employment process
• Employee qualification monitoring during employment with you
• Leave-of-absence administration
• Employee benefits administration
• Payroll administration, taxes, and support
• Worker's compensation coverage and administration
• Post-employment administration and record keeping
• Close coordination between Employment Systems' staff, AO program employees, and fire department management
• Flexibility and adaptability in program administration — as your needs change, the program is easily modified to change, too

What Role Does the Fire Department Play?

Because each program is unique to each fire department, your agency can be as active as you like in any or all of the processes.

For example, Employment Systems can provide the entire recruitment and selection process. Or, as an option, the fire department can perform aspects of the selection process and make a final determination of who is placed on an eligibility list for the job.

No matter what, you're assured of having the best of the best from the word "go" with Employment Systems' Ambulance Operator program.

How Do I Get My Employment Systems Ambulance Operator?

Employment Systems is the expert in Ambulance Operator staffing-program implementation and administration. Call us today at 1.800.756.7747 to get your fire department on board our Ambulance Operator program. We'll give you a sample quote on starting up the program based on the parameters you select (such as wage rate and number of ambulances to be staffed).

And if you know of another department that would be interested in this program, please email them our website address!