ECMO Primer, Part-time, Wolfson Children's Hospital

Join Baptist Health as an ECMO Specialist (Part‑time) at Wolfson Children’s Hospital.

Baptist Health is seeking to add an ECMO Specialist to our Wolfson Children’s Hospital. This is a part‑time, day shift opportunity. The ECMO Specialist is responsible for providing advanced life support to critically ill patients requiring extracorporeal assistance. Responsibilities include assembling, wet priming, and blood priming the ECMO circuit, administering medications per policy, assisting physicians during procedures, and managing the setup, monitoring, and troubleshooting of ECMO and related support technologies.

The specialist collaborates closely with physicians and multidisciplinary teams to deliver safe, effective, and high‑quality patient care.

• Providing direct care to critically ill neonatal, pediatric, and adult patients
• Administering medications according to hospital policies and procedures
• Assisting physicians with patient management, invasive procedures, and emergency interventions
• Assembling, wet priming, and blood priming ECMO circuits per policy
• Setting up, managing, monitoring, and troubleshooting ECMO systems and related technology
• Demonstrating professionalism when interacting with patients, families, physicians, and other departments
• Assisting with patient transport throughout the hospital
• Performing IV insertions as credentialed
• Responding to rapid responses and Code Blue events
• Maintaining flexibility and reliability due to the emergent and unpredictable nature of ECMO activation and patient volume

Associate’s Degree

Bachelor’s Degree

• 3–5 Years Critical Care Experience

• Basic Life Support (BLS) – Required
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) – Preferred
• STABLE Certification (Neonatal Education Program) – Preferred
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) – Preferred
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) Certification – Preferred
• Licensed Respiratory Therapist (RRT) – Required or
• Licensed Registered Nurse – Required or

Wolfson Children’s Hospital
800 Prudential Drive
Jacksonville, FL 32207

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