About this role
About the Role Lead Respiratory Therapist at Northwest Community Hospital leads night shift activities, provides clinical leadership, and ensures adherence to patient care standards, budgetary guidelines, and department performance initiatives. This role coordinates staff, assessments, and orders to support optimal patient outcomes in a fast-paced environment. What You'll Do
- Coordinate the daily shift activities and provision of employee assistance in order to perform job functions.
- Responsible for planning and organizing the daily shift activities of the Respiratory Therapy therapists and technicians. Ensures that department standards in patient care, departmental performance improvements and budgetary compliance are adhered to by staff.
- Adjusts daily shift work assignments due to fluctuations in workloads, staffing and/or unexpected events.
- Provides leadership, assists with assessments, and initiates orders according to the standards set by the patient assessment and protocol treatment program.
- Provides assistance to staff by resolving problems with procedures and/or equipment.
- Assists in resolving patient, physician and/or nursing complaints and reports all such incidents to the Department Director or designee. What We're Looking For
- Education: Graduation from a nationally accredited Respiratory Therapy program, as determined by the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC), required.
- Certification: Current CPR Certification issued by American Heart Association required. RRT, NALS, PALS and CPR certification, required.
- License: Current State of Illinois DPR Respiratory Care Practitioner licensure, required.
- Experience: Level 3 NICU experience, required. Compensation & Benefits
- Salary range: $35.38 - $54.84 per hour (USD).
- Benefits include: Annual Incentive Plan, premium pay (shift, on-call, holiday and more), incentive pay for select positions, annual increases based on performance, career pathways for growth, medical/dental/vision options, tuition reimbursement, free parking, Wellness Program Savings Plan, Health Savings Account options, retirement options with company match, PTO and holiday pay, and community involvement opportunities.