What are the responsibilities and job description for the Respiratory Therapy Manager position at Inova Specialty Hospital?
Position: Respiratory Therapy Manager
Location: Alexandria, VA
Schedule: Full Time
Inova Specialty Hospital 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.
Location: Alexandria, VA
Schedule: Full Time
Inova Specialty Hospital 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 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.