Manager Respiratory Care

Overview

Provides leadership, planning, and coordination for day-to-day operations and staffing of all Respiratory Care services in the hospital, facility, and related areas. This includes efficient and effective staffing, resource utilization, problem solving, coordination with other departments and care providers, and quality assurance measures that result in cost effective, safe, and optimal patient outcomes. The manager also demonstrates expertise in caring for patients with multiple and/or complex Respiratory problems and serves as a resource and consultant to other clinicians.

Typically leads a department with a caregiver count less than 45 at a Trauma level 3 or higher facility, with a NICU level 2 or lower.

• Riverton Hospital is a nationally recognized community hospital with a commitment to meeting the healthcare needs of the rapidly growing population in southwest Salt Lake County. Riverton offers state-of-the art technology in a modern 97-bed facility with a medical staff of more than 250 doctors representing 30 specialties.
• Riverton is committed to offering a wide range of quality inpatient and outpatient services, including a Level IV trauma designation for our emergency department. With our highly experienced team of women’s and newborn caregivers, Riverton Hospital has become a top choice for maternity services. Our Level II newborn intensive care unit (NICU) was recently expanded to support our smallest patients.
• We have the busiest surgical robot in the nation and a growing Cancer Center with radiation oncology and infusion. Riverton caregivers take patient comfort, safety, and healing as their highest priority throughout each stay. Riverton is proud to have been recognized several times as one of America’s top 100 hospitals, by an independent study that evaluates cost efficiency and quality care.

• Works to achieve cost effective, quality, and customer directed respiratory care services for the hospital, facility, and related areas.
• Schedules and ensures adequate staffing, skill mix, and competency to meet patient care needs.
• Accountable for the effective management of human resource programs and maintaining a competent staff. Evaluates staff competency through use of performance evaluations, mandatory education requirements, staff meetings, employee counseling, and coaching and mentoring.
• Accountable for employee recruitment, corrective action, disciplinary action, and termination.
• Builds a cohesive team and promotes employee engagement. Maintains good working relationships between Respiratory, other departments, hospital leadership, and physicians.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates various patient care programs based on strategic planning, identified need, administrative requests, and the changing health care environment.
• Oversees and supports the establishment of professional practice standards by collaborating with the appropriate departments to support the ideal patient and employee experience by bringing respiratory care process and clinical expertise together with educational expertise in order to achieve continuous and measurable improvements.
• Develops a financial plan including implementing and managing department budgets, capital budgets, and meeting established budget objectives. Appropriately utilizes staff and resources with an emphasis on expense control and cost savings.
• Ensures that equipment is available and functioning properly. Identifies and coordinates when repair or replacement of equipment is needed.
• Enforces policies and procedures and adherence to regulatory requirements from Intermountain, accrediting entities, government agencies and other applicable regulating bodies.
• Proactively identifies best practices and regulation changes in the Respiratory field and implements needed changes into policies and processes.
• Will be required to work clinical shifts per department policy.

• Leadership
• Resource utilization
• Recruiting
• Financial acumen
• Cost effectiveness analysis
• Patient care

• Demonstrated respiratory therapy experience is required.
• Demonstrated experience supervising and leading a team(s) is required.
• Current…