Position Summary
Position Summary
Assures appropriate, cost effective and safe respiratory care is provided to all patients.
Schedule: Full-Time Monday - Friday
Days - but need to be able to provide leadership oversight during nights or weekends when incidents arise
Lead at Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children, a Magnet-recognized organization and nationally ranked pediatric hospital (Top 50 in 7 specialties; #2 in Florida).
As Director of Respiratory Care, you'll drive excellence across NICU, PICU, and advanced pediatric pulmonary services, shaping outcomes for our most vulnerable patients.
Essential Functions
• Develops and implements policy and procedure manual and assures staff education and compliance.
• Develops, monitors, and reports quality management process improvement in all departmental areas.
• Assures compliance with JCAHO, state and federal regulations.
• Assures that the arterial blood gas laboratory is maintained in accordance with all state and federal regulations and that proper data
is maintained for quality control and inspections.
• Responsible for a staff of at least 40 or more full-time equivalents (FTEs) in an individual or multiple departments.
• Coordinates the scheduling and staffing for both inpatient and outpatient procedures diagnostic testing, and critical care transports.
• Recruits, interviews, select, evaluate, and counsels staff.
• Prepares operational and capital budgets - coordinates expenditures, orders supplies, and reconciles charges.
• Prepares administrative and financial reports.
• Acts as a liaison between medical staff, administration and other departments.
• Remains current in fields of responsibility.
• Manages various personnel functions including hiring, work assignments, coaching plans, and disciplinary actions.
• Maintains reasonably regular, punctual attendance consistent with Orlando Health policies, the ADA, FMLA and other federal, state and local standards.
• Maintains compliance with all Orlando Health policies and procedures.
Other Related Functions
• Participates in interdepartmental committee work.
• Organizes, prepares and presents educational programs for the department, hospital and community.
• Reviews productivity standards, develops inventory control systems, coordinates payroll, participates in the risk management of the
department and other departments, responsible for assuring that all staff are current with clinical competencies, mandatory education, certifications, and employee health regulations.
• The manager is also responsible for the development of new clinical services including purchasing equipment and training staff through an interdisciplinary approach.
• Acts as a liaison to facilitate access to clinical training facilities, corporate education and community.
Qualifications
Education/Training
Bachelor of Science in Respiratory Care, Cardiopulmonary Sciences, Business Administration, Health Science Administration, or other related area of study.
Licensure/Certification
• Maintains current Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) license in the state of Florida.
• Registered by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC).
• Maintains current BLS/HealthCare Provider certification.
Experience
Five (5) years' experience as a registered respiratory therapist, including one (1) year of leadership experience in an acute care respiratory
unit.
