Job Description

Care Options for Kids connects leading pediatric specialists with families to provide best-in-class pediatric nursing, therapy, and school-based services. We seamlessly integrate into children’s lives by bringing individualized care to children where they live, work, and play.

Our pediatric specialists are committed to providing high-quality pediatric services that help children and families live their best lives. We empower our community of clinicians to meet children where they are by providing the support and resources necessary to decrease administrative burdens. This focus allows our clinicians to obtain optimal work-life balance.

The Registered Respiratory Therapist provides respiratory therapy services by educating nurses and educating the home care community being serviced in the North Jersey and Allentown, PA service areas.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF POSITION :

· Provides respiratory therapy services by educating nurses in the classroom or virtual environments and educates the home care community being serviced.

· Prepares nursing personnel by providing training classes, mentoring, and clinical evaluations in the home.

· Observes the participant’s performance, and coordinates nursing orientation to respiratory care

· The respiratory therapist will educate nurses and isolate appropriateness for nurses on high-tech cases.

· Provide client specific training on new cases with equipment that is unfamiliar to nursing staff.

· Provide ventilator clinics to health care providers to maintain current education on state-of-the-art equipment utilized in the home care setting

· Assist clinical staff with evaluation of our high-tech patients homes and collaborate to ensure treatment plan is appropriate for patient.

· Assist clinical staff with reinforcing education of patient diagnosis and treatments to family members and caregivers.

· Maintains professional and technical knowledge by attending educational workshops and reviewing professional publications

· Documents client care services by charting inpatient and clinical records.

· Participates in the discharge process by attending discharge planning meetings, home preparation, attendance at discharge, and follow-up visits when available

· Performs annual respiratory competencies for clinical staff.

· On-call for nursing and client support.

· Other duties as assigned. Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change.

JOB CONDITIONS :

· Transport equipment includes small ventilators and miscellaneous respiratory teaching supplies.

· Ability to regularly sit, stand, bend, walk, reach, and lift with hands and arms.

· Travel is common and availability must be fluid

· Some out-of-the-area travel is expected.

QUALIFICATIONS:

· RRT associate degree required, bachelor’s degree preferred

· Must have two years of respiratory therapist experience

· DME and pediatric experience, preferred

· Valid state respiratory therapy license is required in the state of residency and willingness to obtain Respiratory Therapist licensure in additional states in which the organization delivers educational services is required.

· Must have excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills.

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