Lead Respiratory Therapist at BSA Health System

Overview

Overview Join our team as a night shift, full-time Lead Respiratory Therapist in Amarillo, TX. Why Join Us? Thrive in a People-First Environment and Make Healthcare Better Thrive: We empower our team with career growth opportunities, tuition assistance, and resources that support your wellness, education, and financial well-being.

People-First: We prioritize your well-being with paid time off, comprehensive health

Benefits

• , and a supportive, inclusive culture where you are valued and cared for.
• Make Healthcare Better: We use advanced technology to support our team and enhance patient care.
• Get to Know Your Team: BSA Hospital is a 445-bed hospital serving the Amarillo area for over 120 years and continues to be Amarillo’s preferred healthcare provider.
• At BSA, the focus is to provide quality healthcare in Christian love, service, and dignity.
• Responsibilities Performing all Respiratory Care procedures in the general and critical care settings.
• The Respiratory Therapist Lead provides shift-by-shift clinical leadership for the advancement of professional respiratory practice to staff in a variety of clinical settings, including but not limited to general care, critical and pediatric care settings.
• The Respiratory Lead demonstrates a high degree of independence and is responsible for assisting with ongoing development and evaluation of orientation needs, in-service education, and continuing education.
• This clinician applies innovative teaching strategies and methodologies to provide cost-effective and well-executed clinical education utilizing a wide variety of methodologies and provides support to clinical learning through mentorship, clinical rounds, and practice evaluation.
• The RT Lead functions as “Charge Therapist” with responsibility for ensuring an adequate number of respiratory therapy staff to cover patient care areas and needs.
• This includes assigning respiratory therapy staff to work areas and/or work assignments, modifying work assignments, assisting with meal coverage, fielding calls for unexpected absences, and coordinating adequate staffing levels for the next shift.
• Qualifications Job

Requirements

• Associate Degree in Respiratory Therapy.
• Licensed by the Texas Medical Board as a Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP).
• BLS certification must be obtained within 14 days of hire or transfer into the role and prior to providing direct patient care.
• RRT- Registered Respiratory Therapist verified through NBRC.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support through American Heart Association or American Red Cross within 90 days.
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support and NRP certification if assigned to Pediatric/Neonatal area.
• Preferred Job

Requirements

• Previous acute care experience