Use the on-line Virginia Office of EMS Recruitment and Retention Directory to learn more about volunteer and career EMS opportunities within your county/city and across Virginia. The information is updated regularly and features profiles on Virginia's EMS agencies. The application’s primary function is to allow agencies to post job and volunteer listings for their EMS agency, allowing visitors to browse and search for job and volunteer opportunities. The application includes a visual interface and is built with the latest technologies, to ensure a robust, reliable, and easily maintainable application.
The visitor interface primarily allows visitors to search and browse through posted job and volunteer opportunities. In addition, visitors are encouraged to register with the application to allow them access to the My Profile Tool and the Search Agent Tool. Registered users are provided with a username and password, allowing them easy access to the site in the future.
EMS Workforce Retention Tool Kit
The Virginia Office of EMS, Virginia Association of Volunteer Rescue Squads (VAVRS), and the Western Virginia EMS Council in Roanoke teamed together to contract with Renaissance Resources, a Richmond based business-consulting firm, to develop strategies and identify solutions to enhance the retention of volunteer and career EMS personnel. Four tools or workbooks will be developed based on research compiled from focus groups of selected types of agencies. Check back as the guides are completed.
This extensive research presents the framework for the creation of the four workbooks and EMS agency market segments. Localities and EMS agencies will find the results and findings helpful in recognizing local and statewide EMS workforce trends.
•Keeping
The Best! How To Use EMS Retention
Principles
The first in a series of four the Retention
tool kit, is a hands-on workbook to help EMS
leaders understand and use basic retention
principles in day-to-day EMS agency
operations. The workbook begins with a
Retention Program self assessment. By taking
the assessment, the EMS leader highlights
the strengths and weaknesses of his current
retention program. The leader learns to
maintain and leverage the strengths of the
EMS agency program and work on the important
weaknesses.
•Keeping
The Best! A Survival Guide to EMS Retention
Problems
The second publication in the Keeping the
Best! line-up. This 32-page guidebook will
help leaders identify and solve specific
retention problems. Thirteen specific
retention problems are identified with
suggested solutions. While the survival
guide was originally designed for EMS
agencies in cities or counties with little
or no population growth and with little or
no turnover in EMS personnel, this is a
great tool for any EMS agency.
•Keeping
the Best! Maximizing Your Retention Efforts
Designed for larger volunteer agencies that
have mastered the basics, but want to
maximize their retention efforts. Please
note that EMS leaders from any size
volunteer or career agency will find this
workbook helpful. It guides EMS leaders
through issues driven by growth and change
such as the integration of career personnel.
Maximizing Your Retention Efforts also
reviews the importance of the recruiting
process and reintroduces the reader to the
key retention principles mentioned in the
first workbook.
•Keeping
The Best! How To Retain ALS Providers:
Workforce Utilization Strategies & Applying
EMS Retention Principles
The fourth and final workbook in the EMS
Workforce Retention Tool kit is designed for
the EMS Manager who wants to strengthen
their ALS workforce. "How To Retain ALS
Providers" challenges the EMS agency
leadership to define the current ALS
workforce, define the desired future ALS
workforce and examine strategies to fill the
gap between the current and and desired ALS
workforce. Managers are also encouraged to
monitor the results and re-evaluate their
work at regular intervals. Managers will use
a series of spreadsheets to capture
quantitative and data and apply the four
basic retention principles to ALS Workforce
issues.
•How
to Retain ALS Provider Worksheets
(Appendices A-L)
Instead of trying to write all your data
into the workbook, download the worksheets
and templates. Most are in Excel
spreadsheets and feature encoded formulas to
help you process your data.