Respiratory Care Practice Leader Job Opening

Classification Title: Specialized Care Coordinator - Respiratory Care Practice Leader
Department: Respiratory Care
Pay Grade: PVA2
Percent of Time: 100%
Staff Type: Professional & Scientific
Type of Position: Regular
Position Summary:

• -To ensure that the Respiratory Care Department personnel are professionally and technically prepared for their responsibilities of providing respiratory care service in an academic medical center environment. To provide safe and effective respiratory care to infant, pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric patients.
• -Use clinical and leadership judgement to problem solve with other clinicians across the health care enterprise to adopt best practices.
• -Mentor and provide evaluative feedback about performance.
• -Facilitate changes in respiratory care based on systematic evaluation and evidence-based research
• -Oversees the process for writing, developing research papers/abstracts for regional/national conferences submissions.

Provide respiratory care services as assigned.

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• -Identifies & Assesses Staff Educational Needs
• -Develops/Implements/Modifies New Employee Orientation
• -Oversees Educational Needs Outside the Department
• -Policies/Procedures & Staff Requirements
• -Evaluate & Educational Needs of New Equipment
• -Evidence-Based Research
• -Collaboration and Embracing Diversity
• -Positive Impact/Achieving Results
• -Service Excellence/Customer Focus

University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics—recognized as one of the best hospitals in the United States—is Iowa's only comprehensive academic medical center and a regional referral center. Each day more than 12,000 employees, students, and volunteers work together to provide safe, quality health care and excellent service for our patients. Simply stated, our mission is: Changing Medicine. Changing Lives.®

Our primary and specialty care is provided by experts from all medical specialties, attracting patients from around the world. We offer our care in convenient, comfortable settings, using the most advanced approaches and with the best outcomes as our goal.

The university is located along the picturesque Iowa River in Iowa City, a city of some 77,000 people (170,000+ in the metro area) regularly ranked as one of the nation’s best places to live. Iowa City is less than four hours from Chicago and within five hours of Minneapolis, St. Louis, and Kansas City, readily accessible via interstate highways and a regional airport 30 minutes away.

• Bachelors of Science degree in Respiratory Care or related science, or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Graduate of a two or four year AMA approved Respiratory Therapy program.
  

• Registered by the National Board for Respiratory Care (RRT)
  

• Minimum of (5+ years) of critical care experience in Respiratory Care in a tertiary setting
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient in computer software applications
• Possess and maintain active membership in the National Board for Respiratory Care and the Iowa Society for Respiratory Care
• Possess a current State of Iowa Respiratory Care Practitioner license
• Possess a current CPR certification card
  

• Bachelors of Science degree
• Demonstrates skill in developing/implementing/evaluating clinical programs, staff education and development and quality improvement
• Experience in other media/survey technology
• Grant /abstract writing and publication experience
• COPD educator, Asthma Educator, Smoking Cessation Educator, Adult Critical Care Specialty (RRT-ACCS), Neonatal/Pediatric Respiratory Care Specialist (RRT-NPS), Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist, ACLS and PALs certified