Respiratory Care Manager - Critical Care

Essential Functions:

• Collaborates in planning services and ensures they are delivered in accordance with established standards and within the scope of practice. Establishes operational strategies by evaluating trends and critical measurements determining production productivity quality and customerservice strategies designing systems accumulating resources partnering to provide best outcomes resolving problems and implementing change.
• Directs and evaluates the clinical practice administrative and supervisory activities of Respiratory Therapists within areas of responsibility. Determines accountabilities communicates and enforces values policies and procedures oversees the performance management and employment lifecycles plans and reviews compensation strategies and oversees assignment and scheduling.
• Maintains a high level of clinical expertise in respiratory care and acts as a clinical consultant to respiratory care nursing and medical staff in the management of respiratory care clinical issues. Leads and participates on committees as a representative in Respiratory Care. Completes internal/external projects by serving on task force groups and committees.
• Develops evaluates and communicates annual and longrange goals and objectives in collaboration with the multidisciplinary team.
• Develops respiratory therapy services financial strategies by estimating forecasting and anticipating requirements trends and variances aligning monetary resources developing action plans measuring and analyzing results and minimizing the impact of variances.
• Ensures maintenance of appropriate inventories of patient care supplies. Partners in evaluation of new technologies equipment and supplies. Maintains uptodate knowledge of techniques and practices in the field of respiratory care by attending conferences seminars and other relevant meetings.
• Maintains legal and accreditation compliance by developing policy positions concerning federal state and local regulations and governmental standards. Anticipates emerging issues and leads teams to develop and implement evidencebased clinical programs policies and standards.
• Assesses continuing education needs of clinical staff. Guides and encourages staff to utilize evidencebased research to ensure the highest level of care.
• Collaborates to promote student learning experiences and to serve as a connection for networking and recruitment opportunities. Partners and promotes research activities related to pulmonary medicine and other activities as appropriate.

Education Requirement:

Masters Degree in Respiratory Therapy or a related field required.

Licensure Requirement:

Registered Respiratory Therapist by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) with licensure to practice in the State of Ohio required.

Certifications:

Certification in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) with annual recertification required.

Skills:

• Promotes teamwork by building a team environment and fostering crossfunctional collaborations.
• Strong analytical/quantitative and organizational skills required to implement and evaluate goals policies procedures and services and to develop new programs; to develop and monitor budgets; to assess patients and ensure optimal patient care; and to participate in research related to pulmonary medicine.
• Excellent communication customer service negotiation interpersonal relationship and written communications skills are required.
• Skills in promoting multidisciplinary collaboration; ability to act as a facilitator and change agent required.
• Effective interpersonal skills required in interactions with all levels of hospital
• High level of initiative selfdirection and accountability for actions required.
• Supervisory and managerial skills required to plan direct and evaluate the work of respiratory care staff.
• Establishes active role in state and national professional organizations.
• Respiratory therapists are authorized to access the unit medication rooms or bedside medication drawers to retrieve medications they are authorized to administer.

Experience:

• Three years of experience in direct patient care and management required.
• Experience with neonatal and pediatric respiratory care preferred.

Physical Requirements:

Occasionally 133 of time 0.52.5 hours)

Climb stairs/ladders driving lifting greater than 100 lbs. With assistance working with power tools working with electricity.

Frequently 3466 of time 2.65 hours)

Bend/twist squat/kneel sitting flexing /extending of neck reaching above shoulder computer skills exposure to biohazard waste exposed to loud noises.

Continuously 67100 of time 5.112 hours

Standing walking hand use: grasping gripping turning repetitive hand/arm use lifting up to 20 lbs pushing/pulling up to 100 lbs assistance may be needed audible speech hearing acuity visiondepth perception color vision vision seeing far/near visionperipheral problem solving skills decision making skills interpreting data exposed to blood/bodily fluids exposed to communicable diseases and/or pathogens chemicals/ medications work with patient equipment exposure to fumes/gases/vapors work with machinery.

Additional Physical Requirements performed but not listed above:

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The above list of duties is intended to describe the general nature and level of work performed by individuals assigned to this classification. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive list of duties performed by the individuals so classified nor is it intended to limit or modify the right of any supervisor to assign direct and control the work of employees under their supervision. EOE M/F/Disability/Vet