Respiratory Therapy Manager
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Overview
Select Specialty Hospital-Ann Arbor
Respiratory Therapy Manager
Ypsillanti MI
Full Time
SSH-Ann Arbor is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. Each employee plays a vital role in doing that by living our cultural behaviors - celebrating success owning the future being patient-centered creating change thinking first and building trust.
At our company we support your career growth and personal well-being.
- Start Strong: Extensive orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
- Recharge & Refresh: Generous PTO for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
- Your Health Matters: Comprehensive medical/RX health vision and dental plan offerings for full-time team members
- Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members
- Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
Responsibilities
The Respiratory Therapy Manager is responsible for the overall function and professional growth of the respiratory therapy department. You will provide consultation with regard to pulmonary disorders and respiratory therapy practice and you will provide quality respiratory care while ensuring the development and routine monitoring. This position also provides discipline-specific education to patients families and staff as required and works collaboratively with the Chief Nursing Officer to ensure that all departmental standards are met while following the appropriate standards of practice to ensure regulatory compliance.
- Overseeing the daily operations of the respiratory therapy department to include: staff interviews employment decision orientation performance evaluations employee training and development as well as inventory equipment and instrument issues.
- Sharing responsibility for employee engagement recruitment and retention.
- Implementing company standards of care policies and procedures.
- Ensuring all regulatory requirements are met regarding respiratory and point of care.
- Creating and maintaining clinical schedule for safe staffing.
- Maintaining clinical cost control.
- Coordinating and actively participating in Wean Team/Pulmonary Rounds and maintaining a direct line of communication with pulmonary physicians to facilitate/implement and routinely monitor weaning patients from mechanical ventilation; if protocols do not exist works toward site-specific protocol implementation.
- Steering progressive clinical excellence through staff development while promoting continuous quality improvement.
- Teaching and counseling patients and their families.
- Maintaining competency in Rapid Response and code events.
- Site-Dependent: Functioning as Moderate Complexity Lab Manager over point of care testing and functioning as the Safety Officer overseeing the Environment of Care.
Qualifications
Minimum Requirements:
- Current State License.
- Active Registered Respiratory Therapist Credential (RRT) from the National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) Required.
- Proof of graduation required: college transcript/diploma (preferred) or high school transcript/diploma or GED.
- Possess a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by start date.
- ACLS within 6 months of employment required.
Preferred qualificationsthat will make you successful:
- Associates Degree in Respiratory Therapy required Bachelors Degree preferred.
- Five (5) years experience as a Respiratory Therapist in an Acute Care setting preferred.
- Two years supervisory experience preferred.
Additional Data
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Unclear
