Respiratory Therapist
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre | Barrie, ON

Regular, Part-Time
Salary range: $38.50 – $45.12

The Allied Health Services (AHS) team, under Professional Practice at Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (RVH) consists of Regulated Healthcare Professional including Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech Language Pathology, Social Work, Registered Dietitians, as well as unregulated Rehabilitation Assistants. Each discipline is focused on driving evidence informed practice to promote high quality patient and family centered care.

The team has a professional practice leader (PPL) model for each regulated allied health discipline which promotes and enhances the interprofessional team. Each regulated discipline has their own PPL with dedicated time to enhance their communities of practice, represent their respective disciplines at committees, create policies & procedures, lead corporate level initiatives, and drive best practices in the realm of patient care.

RVH is currently recruiting for a Part-Time Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) to support our acute care as well as ambulatory service (adult and pediatric asthma and pulmonary function) clinics.

As the Respiratory Therapist your role is to provide airway management, initiating and maintaining ventilation for allpatient populations including neonatal,paediatric, and adult patients in any environment including but not limited to Med/Surge ICU, Neuro ICU, Neonatal ICU, ER, the OR, General Wards, and Homecare and at births of high risk. To provide education for chronic disease management for respiratory related diseases. And to provide full pulmonary function testing including broncho-challenge testing in a designated Lab setting.

QUALIFICATIONS

Education & Experience:

  • College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario (CRTO) Membership required

  • Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) required

  • Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) required

  • Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) required

  • Certified Respiratory Educator (CRE) designation or in progress required. If in progress, successful candidate will obtain CRE within approximately 12 months or earlier.

  • Arterial Line certification

  • Previous experience in acute care setting preferred

  • Able to perform all skills, in all patient populations

Competencies:

  • Strong computer skills

  • Time management

  • Prioritization skills

  • Communication skills

  • Self-motivating

  • Problem solving

  • Critical thinking

  • Decision making skills

  • Are a team player