Respiratory Therapist Job Vacancy at Tristate Healthcare System

Tristate Healthcare System is a conglomeration of super specialty Healthcare providers recognized for compassionate, exceptional and individualized care categories. We are recruiting to fill the position below:     Job Title: Respiratory Therapist Location: Oyo Position Summary

• You will take a leadership role in advocating and providing exceptional health care to patients and families.
• This position supports the hospital’s academic mandate by advancing care through teaching and learning and/or transforming care through research and innovation.
• This position contributes to the shared responsibility of ensuring health and safety policies are followed to provide for a healthy environment for patients, staff, physicians, volunteers and families on a practical level.
• Respiratory Therapy Team, your goal in this position is to promote a patient and family centred care approach.
• You will do this by collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of care providers in a supportive and culturally sensitive manner.
• You have clinical expertise, competence, and technical skills as related to the position.
• You are also flexible to changing priorities and committed to continuous learning and professional development.
• You have great interpersonal skills, and you effortlessly connect with physicians, staff, patients, and families.

• Supervise, teach and evaluate students as assigned by clinical coordinator
• Educate patients, families, caregivers and health care professionals in respiratory care
• Demonstrate the ability to lift and position patients and related equipment.
• Educate physicians and patients on Obstructive/ Central Sleep Apnea
• Administer therapy to treat CSA/ OSA
• Knowledge of CPAP/BiPAP/ APAP.
• Participate collaboratively within interprofessional healthcare teams with adult, paediatric and newborn patients in the Critical Care Unit, ED, Inpatient Units, Labour & Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and Operating Room
• Provide ventilation management, weaning and discontinuation
• Perform as a member of Code Teams and Critical Care Response Team
• Assist at high risk deliveries performing neonatal resuscitation
• Perform airway management including intubations and tracheostomy tube insertions
• Perform insertion of arterial lines
• Administer pharmaceutical substances in respiratory care
• Perform related diagnostic tests including procurement and interpretation of arterial blood gases, assisting with bronchoscopies

• Diploma/Degree in Respiratory Therapy
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
• Current Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
• Current NRP certification
• Experience in adult intubation and adult radial arterial line insertion
• Experience in neonatal intubation.