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Hello all,

I got invited to do an interview with my local jail as a health specialist that pays a salary that would change my life right now. Im really nervous right now and my interview is on Thursday! Please give me as much advice as possible and please let me know if any of you guys have experience in a similar setting cause i have no clue what to expect!


Thank you guys all so much!
 
Just remember that patient care is patient care. It doesn't matter if they're in an ambulance or a jail. Don't look at them as prisoners, look at them as patients. These were all points I brought up at my interview and I did well.
 
Thank you I only have my basic right now and currently in medic school.... What can I do to persuade them that what I lack in experience ( only 7 months ambulance as a 3rd rider) I make up for enthusiasm for the job and that I'm a quick learner and I'm a very dependable worker. Ill be sure to mention that patient care is patient care , should I refrain from sharing my eventual goal is to get on with a fire department?
 
When you go in for your interview they should tell you what your job responsibilities are. More then likely it will be a lot of vitals and passing out meds.

My company uses EMT-Bs to pass meds mostly. Paramedics are responsible for intake physicals and responding to emergencies within the prison. Most of the EMTs we hire are just out of school.

Experience is what you make of it. Do you have any customer service experience? That will be just as valuable as EMT experience. You got the interview, which means your work history was reviewed, so they know you don't have years of experience as a basic.

I talked to the RNs after I was hired and they said that big fail points in the interview were showing that you think of prisons as a lesser kind of patient, that you don't have thick skin, and that you would try and act like a corrections officer.
 
Ok so my interview must've went pretty well but was strange , I was expecting something similar to that of a police or fire interview.... He explained all the day to day operations go for my position and then he really only asked me two questions asking me first why I wanted to be in the ems kinda setting, and the second one was if I was interested in the job still? I told him yes!!! And he told me "well I have no problem bringing on brand new emts, there's no shame in that" afterwards he gave the card to the background investigator , I'm doing and 45-1 hr interview tmmrw with him, he's supposed to be asking me some questions regarding history , then after that I go on to the personal history statement for a polygraph and then a psych test.... I'm just not sure if there gonna do another interview at the end to ask me more questions or is that it I got the job so long as I pass everything else?
 
My brother was a corrections officer at a federal prison before going FT National Guard.. We discuss his job quite a bit.. Aside from the normal stuff of getting lice of the head (and pubic variety) flicked at him, inmates with TB purposefully coughing in his face, feces thrown about, he said there is a lot of mental games that go with the job..

He doesn't wear his wedding ring. He never makes it known that he has children, or a wife.

I bet a jail would be a whole lot different than a prison though.
 
Agreed that county jail is a whole different game from prison. I work at a county jail and most of the guys and girls here just want to get in and get out. Rarely do we have people stay longer then 24-48 hrs. A few may be in for a couple days or a few weeks but that's it. I have my share of crazies that try to mess with me, but no worse then working on a truck.

OP, sounds like you made it past the interview. Next step is when they usually rule people out. Just be 100% honest and you should be fine. Any sign of dishonesty and they'll drop you.
 
MedicBender said:
Agreed that county jail is a whole different game from prison. I work at a county jail and most of the guys and girls here just want to get in and get out. Rarely do we have people stay longer then 24-48 hrs. A few may be in for a couple days or a few weeks but that's it. I have my share of crazies that try to mess with me, but no worse then working on a truck.

OP, sounds like you made it past the interview. Next step is when they usually rule people out. Just be 100% honest and you should be fine. Any sign of dishonesty and they'll drop you.
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Well as an update I'm guessing I got past the background even though I haven't taken the poly yet but they called to schedule a second interview with the medical director!
 
Yea when you get any kinda job like that from any public agency it takes awhile
 
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