Clinical Operations Lead

About the role

The Field Respiratory Lead is an exempt, field-based clinical leadership role responsible for supporting Area Managers by ensuring clinical competency, training compliance, and high-quality respiratory care delivery within the Respiratory Therapist (RT) population in their respective region. The Field Respiratory Lead provides peer coaching, clinical training, quality review oversight, and acts as a clinical resource within the assigned territory, in addition to performing standard Respiratory Therapist duties, as needed. The Field Respiratory Lead maintains a dotted-line relationship to the Director of Clinical for alignment on enterprise-wide clinical initiatives, telehealth support, clinical training standards, workflow optimization, and best practice implementation. This role requires independent judgment, advanced clinical expertise, and leadership accountability while maintaining compliance with all regulatory, accreditation, and company standards. The position requires capability to travel 50‑75% of the time to OR, AZ, and NM.

Responsibilities

• Provides clinical leadership and subject matter expertise to support Area Managers in maintaining respiratory therapy competency, quality, and compliance across assigned field teams.
• Maintains a dotted-line relationship with the Director of Clinical to support enterprise-wide clinical initiatives, telehealth programs, training strategies, workflow optimization, and standardization of best practices.
• Leads and evaluates respiratory therapy competency assessments and clinical validations in accordance with established standards.
• Oversees and deploys RT2/Trainers to support continuous clinical education, evolving clinical processes, and new hire onboarding, ensuring alignment with current clinical practices.
• Conducts bi-weekly RT2 Huddles to align on initiatives and relay frontline feedback to leadership.
• Conducts and evaluates weekly quality “check and balance” reviews; analyzes findings, exercises independent clinical judgment, and provides coaching and recommendations to peers, Area Managers, and Clinical Leadership.
• Designs, delivers, and evaluates clinical training programs for internal staff and external partners, including onboarding, advanced clinical education, telehealth workflows, and product utilization.
• Participates in enterprise and regional clinical initiatives, pilots, and process improvement efforts by providing clinical insight, evaluation, and recommendations.
• Serves as a clinical resource and advisor for telehealth support, workflow design, troubleshooting, and field implementation.
• Applies advanced clinical expertise to review and evaluate physician orders for respiratory equipment and services to ensure appropriateness, accuracy, and compliance.
• Reviews and validates required clinical documentation, authorizations, and supporting information to