Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians

Overview

Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians has a national median salary of $35,450 per year, with -1.3% projected job growth from 2025–2035. The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a high school diploma or equivalent as the typical education needed to enter this occupation.

Description

Drive ambulance or assist ambulance driver in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons. Assist in lifting patients.

Work Values

• Relationships
• Support
• Independence

Work Styles

Responsibilities

Tasks

• Place patients on stretchers, and load stretchers into ambulances, usually with assistance from other attendants.
• Replace supplies and disposable items on ambulances.
• Accompany and assist emergency medical technicians on calls.
• Earn and maintain appropriate certifications.
• Drive ambulances or assist ambulance drivers in transporting sick, injured, or convalescent persons.

Work Activities

• Assisting and Caring for Others
• Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events
• Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge
• Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings
• Performing General Physical Activities
• Communicating with People Outside the Organization
• Documenting/Recording Information
• Handling and Moving Objects
• Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
• Operating Vehicles, Mechanized Devices, or Equipment

Detailed Work Activities

• Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients.
• Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems.
• Performing general physical activities includes doing activities that require considerable use of your arms and legs and moving your whole body, such as climbing, lifting, balancing, walking, stooping, and handling materials.
• Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form.
• Using hands and arms in handling, installing, positioning, and moving materials, and manipulating things.
• Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time.
• Running, maneuvering, navigating, or driving vehicles or mechanized equipment, such as forklifts, passenger vehicles, aircraft, or watercraft.

T-A-S-K

Technology, Abilities, Skills & Knowledge

Education

Education Levels of Current Workers

The Bureau of Labor Statistics lists a high school diploma or equivalent as the typical education needed to enter this occupation. The chart below shows the highest level of education held by people already working in this field, ages 25 and older. It includes workers who earned more education than the job requires and workers who entered the field under earlier requirements, so the largest bar is not the entry requirement. For example, if someone finished an associate's degree and then started working in this field, they are counted under “Associate's degree” here, but the job itself typically asks for a high school diploma or equivalent.

Certificates

Certifications applicable to Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians:

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