Respiratory Therapist

Job Type: Regular

Time Type: Full time

Work Shift: Rotating (United States of America)

FLSA Status: Non-Exempt

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, youre making a difference in peoples lives.

Provides respiratory therapy and other appropriate clinical interventions to assist with orthopedic and non-orthopedic patients needs.

Job Description:

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

1. Patient assessment and evaluation inpatient/outpatient
2. Home Care services and overnight oximetry
3. Bronchoscopy set-up and assist
4. Continuous Positive airway Pressure set-up
5. Positive expiratory Pressure Therapy
6. Arterial Blood Gas Collection
7. Ventilator set-up & Management
8. Bedside Pulmonary Function Testing
9. Noninvasive modality ventilation
10. LTV series Ventilator

Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR)
Intubation assist
Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and STOPBANG
Oxygen Delivery devices
Portable Oxygen E Integrated Valve Center
Sputum specimen collection with Hypertonic Saline
Sputum Specimen via Mechanical Ventilator
Vibratory Positive Expiratory Pressure Therapy Device
Familiar with Bulk Gas Systems
Intubation assist and mechanical ventilation
Hand Held Nebulizer

EDUCATION

Required

High School Graduate or Equivalent

Associates Degree *Science

Preferred

Bachelors Degree *Science

LICENSURE/CERTIFICATION/REGISTRATION

Required

Registered Respiratory Therapist

Advanced Cardiac Life Support

(ACLS)

Basic Life support (BLS)

REQUIRED WORK EXPERIENCE

58 years

REQUIRED SUPERVISORY/MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE

0-1 years

As a health care organization, we have a responsibility to do everything in our power to care for and protect our patients, our colleagues and our communities. Beth Israel Lahey Health requires that all staff be vaccinated against influenza (flu) and COVID-19 as a condition of employment. Learn more about this requirement. More than 35,000 people working together. Nurses, doctors, technicians, therapists, researchers, teachers and more, making a difference in patients' lives. Your skill and compassion can make us even stronger. Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled