Supervisor Respiratory Therapy Inpatient, ECMO /FT, Day

About the role

The Respiratory Therapy Clinical Supervisor is a registered respiratory therapist responsible for promoting and delivering quality care, managing department operations, and leading the respiratory therapy team.

Responsibilities

• Defines operational standards and organizes department-level activities to achieve optimal service delivery/systems/care/processes.
• Holds self and others accountable to meet stated objectives, outcomes, goals, timetables and commitments.
• Performs a variety of supervisory functions on behalf of the respiratory therapy department.
• Ensures staff provides good customer service according to departmental and company standards.
• Demonstrates professional development and leadership related to the role and its impact within the RT department and hospital wide.
• Ensures assigned staff maintains the standards of care and licensure requirements in a timely and accurate manner.
• Prioritizes and coordinates daily work activities.
• Provides leadership and guidance by sharing expertise with others.
• Approves schedules and monitors time worked.
• Trains and/or oversees the training of employees on job-related tasks.
• Conducts employee performance management duties including completion and delivery of performance evaluations, setting goals, dissemination of information, coaching, addressing performance issues/routine correction actions, and recommending termination of employment.
• Sets goals and disseminates information.
• Coaches and addresses performance issues.
• Recommends termination of employment.
• Sets goals and disseminates information.
• Coaches and addresses performance issues.
• Recommends termination of employment.
• Submits notifications for personnel actions (e.g., status changes, terminations).
• May participate in selection, hiring, and salary recommendations.
• Ensures cost-effective use of resources by identifying and implementing changes related to staff allocation and assignment, and patient/department supplies.
• Ensures compliance with quality assurance, safety practices, policies and recordkeeping standards.
• May assist with the development and maintenance of policies and procedures.
• May participate in the implementation of business plans for the area.
• May assist with annual budget by tracking expenses and providing input for future budget needs.
• Lead and supervise assigned staff in performing respiratory therapy treatments.
• Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, and aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
• Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, methods and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, and medication and dosages, compatible with physician’s orders.
• Read physicians’ orders, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient’s condition.
• Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
• Monitor patient’s physiological responses to therapy such as vital signs, arterial blood gases and blood chemistry changes and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.
• Administer therapeutic gases including nitrogen, nitric oxide, heliox, etc.
• Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians’ orders.
• Maintain charts that contain patient pertinent identification and therapy information.
• Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently and notify manager/supervisor when repairs are necessary.
• Educate patients and/or their families about the patient’s condition and teach appropriate disease management techniques such as breathing exercises and the use of medications and respiratory equipment.
• Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
• Conduct lung capacity tests to evaluate patient’s cardiopulmonary functions.
• Provide emergency care, including artificial respiration, external cardiac massage and assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Complete all required respiratory therapy competency tests within specified timeline.
• Demonstrate competency in identified technical skills for the respiratory department at the specific work area.
• Regular attendance at work is an essential function of the job.
• Perform physical requirements as described in the Physical Requirements section.

Requirements

• Graduate of an accredited AMA approved school of respiratory care accredited by the National Board of Respiratory Care.
• Bachelor's Degree from an AMA approved accredited school in respiratory care.
• Minimum of 5 years experience as an RT including minimum of 3 years in pediatrics.
• Minimum of 1 year supervisory experience.
• RCP - Licensed Respiratory Care Practitioner.
• CRT - Certified Respiratory Therapist.
• RRT - Registered Respiratory Therapist.
• RRT - Registered Respiratory Therapist Neonatal/Pediatric (RRT-NPS).
• Health Services\BCLS - Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association.
• PALS - Pediatric Advanced Life Support.

Qualifications

Must possess leadership skills including communication, organizational skills, time management, coping skills, motivation, problem-solving, autonomy, and supporting the team.

Skills

• Leadership skills
• Communication skills
• Organizational skills
• Time management
• Coping skills
• Motivation
• Problem-solving
• Autonomy
• Supporting the team

Benefits

Children’s is committed to diversity and inclusion. We are an equal opportunity employer including veterans and people with disabilities.

Pay

N/A

Schedule

FT, 7:00 am - 7:30 pm