Float Registered Respiratory Therapist

Welcome to Saint Joseph London, a 150-bed regional hospital founded in 1926. Located on a 52 acre healing environment, Saint Joseph London offers private patient rooms that overlook a small lake and healing garden and has been recognized as a Best Place to Work in Kentucky for five years in a row (2020-2024). 

CHI Health Saint Joseph is part of CommonSpirit Health, a non-profit, Catholic health system dedicated to advancing health for all people. With approximately 175,000 team members and 25,000 physicians and advanced practice clinicians.

Our commitment to serve the common good is delivered through the dedicated work of thousands of physicians, advanced practice clinicians, nurses, and staff; through clinical excellence delivered across a system of 140 hospitals and more than 2,200 care centers serving 24 states.

As a Respiratory Therapist, you will join an established team of RTs who share your passion for delivering highly specialized cardiopulmonary care to patients experiencing breathing issues. You'll be instrumental in providing a range of treatments from breathing techniques and nebulizer treatments to ventilator management, oxygen therapies, and external ventilation support.

Every day you will apply your keen assessment skills and critical thinking to manage diverse patient needs, develop and execute effective care plans, and ensure calm, focused intervention in both routine and emergent situations.

To be successful in this role, you will demonstrate a strong sense of urgency, unwavering calm under pressure, and the ability to anticipate outcomes. Your dedication to patient well-being and exceptional problem-solving abilities will drive success in this vital role.

• Assess and evaluate of the appropriateness and effectiveness of therapy based on patient’s age, cognitive and physical abilities, and/or developmental needs
• Make recommendations for changes in specific modes of therapy
• Educates patients and arranges home respiratory care services and patient therapy follow-up assessments using language and materials appropriate for age, cognitive and physical abilities, and/or developmental needs
• Assumes responsibility for personal and professional growth through participation in department meetings, in-service programs and continuing education programs
• Maintains established department policies, procedures and objectives, concerning quality assurance, safety, environmental conditions and infection control

Required

• Other Graduate of an approved respiratory therapy education program, upon hire
• Respiratory Care Practitioner: KY, upon hire and
• Registered Respiratory Therapist, upon hire and
• Basic Life Support - CPR, and
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support, within 90 Days and
• Neonatal Resuscitation Program, within 90 Days and
• Pediatric Advanced Life Support, upon hire