Flight Respiratory Therapist I

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The Flight Respiratory Therapist I provides direct patient care in a transport environment, while assessing and adjusting therapies during transport in response to changes in patient outcomes; builds and maintains relationships with multidisciplinary healthcare providers; and collects, monitors, and reports on quality of care outcomes and measures.

Department: Flight Team
Hours per week: 36, eligible for benefits
Shift: rotating between night and day shift

Education: Bachelor’s Degree in Respiratory Therapy or Respiratory Care

Experience: Four Years clinical respiratory therapy experience in a Critical Care/ED

Equivalency: Associate’s Degree in Respiratory Therapy or Respiratory Care plus two years of experience will substitute for the Bachelor’s Degree requirement.

Certification(s):

• Advanced Life Support Certification
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program
• BLS/CPR from the American Heart Association with at least 6 months left before expiration is required upon hire
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support
• Trauma Provider Advanced Trauma Course, Certified Neonatal/Pediatric Transportation Certification within 2 years of hire

Licensure(s): Registered Respiratory Therapist from National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) and State of Colorado, Respiratory Therapist license

POPULATION SPECIFIC CARE

• Adult - >18yrs to 65yrs
• Adolescent - >13yrs to 18yrs
• School age - >5yrs to 13yrs
• Toddlers - >1 yr to 3yrs
• Infancy - >30 days to 1 yr
• Neonate - <30 days
• Pre-Schoolers - >3yrs to 5yrs

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

An employee in this position may be called upon to do any or all of the following essential functions. These examples do not include all of the functions which the employee may be expected to perform.

SCOPE AND LEVEL

• COMPLEXITY: Duties assigned are generally complex and may be of substantial intricacy. Work assignment is performed within an established framework under general instructions but requires simultaneous coordination of assigned functions or projects in various stages of completion.
• COMMUNICATIONS: Contacts with the patients, families or employees where explanatory or interpretive information is exchanged, defended, and gathered and discretion and judgment are required within the parameters of the job function.
• GUIDELINES: Fully qualified, full performance or journey level. Guidelines are generally but not always clearly applicable, requiring the employee to exercise judgment in selecting the most pertinent guideline, interpret precedents, adapt standard practices to differing situations, and recommend alternative actions in situations without precedent.
• SUPERVISION RECEIVED: Performs work with minimal supervisory oversight. Under general supervision, the employee receives assignments and is expected to carry them through to completion with substantial independence. Work is reviewed for adherence to instructions, accuracy, completeness, and conformance to standard practice or precedent. Recurring work clearly covered by guidelines may or may not be reviewed.
• DECISION MAKING: Exercises judgment and discretion, and is responsible for determining the time, place and sequence of the work performed.

• Audio-Visual: Hearing: Good
• Motion: Reach: Up to 1/3 of time
• Others: Must be able to tolerate temperature changes, smoke, fumes, and dust.
• Others: Able to provide services in all areas where newborn patients are served.
• Motion: Lift: Up to 1/3 of time
• Others: Ability to travel to and navigate around worksites which may or may not meet ADA requirements.
• Others: May assist in lifting, transporting and positioning of patients
• Others: Able to assist or assume direct patient care as census directly permits.
• Others: Occupational Hazards - exposure to unsteady or falling patient: In the course of transferring a patient, may encounter a patient who falls or loses balance, causing employee to fall and/or bear the full weight of a patient
• General Activity: Stand/Walk: 4-6 hrs. per day
• Audio-Visual: Near Vision: Good
• Motion: Bend: Up to 1/3 of time
• Motion: Carry: Up to 1/3 of time
• Audio-Visual: Far Vision: Good
• Audio-Visual: Depth Perception: Good
• Motion: Pull: Up to 1/3 of time
• Motion: Push: Up to 1/3 of time
• Motion: Climb: Up to 1/3 of time
• Audio-Visual: Color Discrimination: Good
• Others: Occupational Hazards - exposure to severe weather conditions; must be able to meet scheduling demands during all weather conditions
• Motion: Squat/Crouch: Up to 1/3 of time

Weight Lifted/Force Exerted: More than 100 pounds: Up to 1/3 of time

Ability to maintain compliance with FFL’s( We are not FFL anymore, our name is Children’s One annual physical fitness requirements that consists of a recurring physical testing of all flight crew members who maintain flight status. The process involves completion of a “pack test” that requires staff to walk three miles within 45 minutes carrying a 20lb weighted vest.

Ability to maintain FFL’s( Children’s One) weight requirement for flight status of 225lbs( now 230lbs). This is measured with full uniform, equipment, coat and helmet as one would weigh in the aircraft with full uniform.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

• Exposure: Exposure to lung irritations: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to cold/heat: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to skin irritations: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to noise/vibration: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to heights: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to blood/body fluid: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to infectious diseases: Occasional.
• Exposure: Exposure to dampness: Occasional.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Manages stress appropriately.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Makes decisions under pressure.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Works with others effectively.
• Mental and Emotional Requirements: Independent discretion/decision making.

It is our intention that all qualified applicants be given equal opportunity and that selection decisions be based on job-related factors. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by law or regulation. Be aware that none of the questions are intended to imply illegal preferences or discrimination based on non-job-related information.

Salary Information

Benefits Information

Here, you matter. As a Children’s Hospital Colorado team member, you will receive a competitive pay and benefits package designed to take care of your needs that includes base pay, incentives, paid time off, medical/dental/vision insurance, company provided life and disability insurance, paid parental leave, 403b employer match (retirement savings), a robust wellness program, and access to a best-in-class education benefit with 75+ tuition-free programs to help you advance your career.

As part of our Total Rewards package, Children's Colorado offers an annual employee bonus program that rewards eligible team members based on organizational performance. If organizational goals are met for the year, the bonus is paid out the following April.

Children’s Colorado delivers annual base pay increases to eligible team members based on their performance over the previous year.