
Respiratory Therapy Manager $10,000.00 Sign On Bonus
- Grand Rapids, MI
- $10,000 per month
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Clinical Advancement Programs with bonus incentives
- Student Loan Repayment Assistance
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Extensive and thorough orientation program
- Team oriented environment
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance; Life insurance; Prescription coverage
- Paid Time Off (PTO) and Extended Illness Days (EID)
- A 401(k) retirement plan with company match
- Short and Long Term Disability
- Personal and Family Medical Leave
- 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.
- 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.