Lead Respiratory Therapist

How would you like to work in a place where your contributions and ideas are valued? A place where you can serve with compassion, pursue excellence and honor every voice? At Wellstar, our mission is simple, yet powerful: to enhance the health and well‑being of every person we serve. We are proud to have become a shining example of what's possible when the brightest professionals dedicate themselves to making a difference in the healthcare industry, and in people's lives.

Work Shift

Night (United States of America)

• Responsible for directing and overseeing the daily activities of an assigned shift using independent judgment to assure successful and safe delivery of care.
• Facilitates onboarding and precepting under the guidance of their direct lead.
• Serves as a clinical resource/support to the staff, physicians, patients, families, and other departments by providing direct patient care, medication administration and ensuring equipment resources and function.
• This role may require the duty of a patient assignment. Responsible for promotion and execution of PI initiatives.
• May assist with data collection and analysis of PI activities. Customer Service, and Safety and Quality initiatives for designated shift.

Leadership and Collaboration

• Leads the shift
• Assures delivery of safe patient care by analyzing patient needs and skill competency level of personnel when making patient assignments
• Facilitates interdisciplinary communication and planning to ensure timely care delivery including discharge
• Communicates with direct leader any needs or concerns pertaining to patient care delivery or employee performance
• Assists in the evaluation of staff, providing input to Supervisor regarding clinical performance, teamwork, etc. of individuals.
• Assigns shift workload and preceptors
• Maintains financial stewardship in relation to productivity
• Maintains daily equipment function and calibration

Innovation and Customer Care

• Provides resources and support
• Monitors equipment inventory, location and utilization to ensure staff have tools and equipment needed to perform their job
• Assists in acquiring appropriate staffing levels.
• Provides clinical assistance to staff as necessary
• Assist with orientation & training for new employees and student clinical rotations
• Assist with annual skill competencies
• Communicates educational needs of staff (i.e. huddles, new equipment or knowledge in‑services for RT staff Maintains staff education records

Professional Development

• Maintains current knowledge related to patient population to deliver the highest standard of care
• Identifies learning needs of workgroup and communicates needs to direct leader.
• Demonstrates excellence in respiratory care practice by promoting process improvement and committee participation

Exemplary Practice & Quality Outcomes

• Rounds on patients to evaluate quality and appropriateness of patient care including corrective action when needed utilizing peer coaching and accountability
• Demonstrates excellence in Respiratory Care practice by providing the highest standard of direct patient care.
• Participates in implementation and monitoring of PI, Customer Service, and Safety and Quality initiatives to improve patient care delivery
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all Wellstar Health System policies, standards of work, and code of conduct.

Required Minimum Education:

• Bachelors Respiratory Therapy

Required Minimum License(s) and Certification(s):

All certifications are required upon hire unless otherwise stated.

• RCP ‑ Respiratory Care Prof
• BLS ‑ Basic Life Support or BLS‑I ‑ Basic Life Support ‑ Instructor
• NBRC‑RRT ‐ Registered Respiratory Therapist
• NBRC‑RPFT ‐ Reg Pulmonary Function Tech‑Preferred or RRT‑ACCS ‐ Adult Critical Care Specialist‑Preferred or RRT‑NPS ‑ Neonatal/Pediatric Specialist‑Preferred or AE‑C ‐ Asthma Educator Specialist‑Preferred
• ACLS ‐ Advanced Cardiac Life Support or ACLS‑I ‑ ACLS ‑ Instructor or ACLS‑P ‐ ACLS‑Provisional (180 Days) within 180 Days
• NRP ‐ Neonatal Resuscitation Program‑Preferred or NRP‑I ‐ NRP ‑ Instructor‑Preferred or NRP‑P ‐ NRP‑Provisional (180 Days)‑Preferred within 180 Days
• PALS ‐ Pediatric Adv…