Position: Respiratory Therapy Manager
Location: Birmingham, AL (3rd floor of Brookwood Baptist Medical Center)
Schedule: Full Time
Sign-on Bonus: $15,000
Overview
Selective Specialty Hospital - Birmingham is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world‑class inpatient post‑ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery. Each employee plays a vital role in fulfilling that mission by living our cultural behaviors – celebrating success, owning the future, being patient‑centered, creating change, thinking first and building trust.
Benefits
- Extensive orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
- Generous PTO for full‑time team members to maintain a healthy work‑life balance.
- Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision and dental plan offerings for full‑time team members.
- Company‑matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full‑time team members.
- Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care.
Responsibilities
The Respiratory Therapy Manager is responsible for the overall function and professional growth of the respiratory therapy department. The role includes: implementing quality respiratory care, ensuring regulatory compliance, and collaborating with leadership to meet departmental standards.
- Oversee daily operations, including staff interviews, employment decisions, orientation, performance evaluations, employee training and development, and inventory management.
- Share responsibility for employee engagement, recruitment and retention.
- Implement company standards of care, policies and procedures.
- Ensure all regulatory requirements are met regarding respiratory and point‑of‑care practices.
- Create and maintain a clinical schedule for safe staffing.
- Maintain clinical cost control.
- Coordinate and actively participate in Wean Team/ Pulmonary Rounds and maintain a direct line of communication with pulmonary physicians to facilitate and routinely monitor weaning patients from mechanical ventilation; if protocols do not exist, work toward site‑specific protocol implementation.
- Steer progressive clinical excellence through staff development while promoting continuous quality improvement.
- Teach and counsel patients and their families.
- Maintain competency in Rapid Response and code events.
- Site‑Dependent: function as Moderate Complexity Lab Manager over point‑of‑care testing and as the Safety Officer, overseeing the Environment of Care.
Minimum Requirements
- Current state license.
- Active Registered Respiratory Therapist Credential (RRT) from the National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) required.
- Proof of graduation required: college transcript/diploma (preferred) or high school transcript/diploma or GED.
- Possess a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by start date.
- Acquired Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) within 6 months of employment required.
Preferred Qualifications That Will Make You Successful
- Associates Degree in Respiratory Therapy required; Bachelor’s Degree preferred.
- Five (5) years experience as a Respiratory Therapist in an Acute Care setting preferred.
- Two years supervisory experience preferred.