Job Description

Job Posting Description

Position Summary

Boston Children's Hospital Respiratory Care Department offers a highly clinically challenging environment with opportunity for professional development. Salaries and benefits are competitive, with opportunity for advancement using our 3-tiered Professional ladder.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer respiratory care and assisted ventilation to infants and children with acute and chronic disease states in all areas of the hospital, following prescribed treatment.
• Apply and monitor mechanical ventilation.
• Provide respiratory therapy in critical care, inpatient, outpatient, and emergency settings.
• Provide patient care in assigned clinical area and complete associated duties.
• Communicate with care team, patients and their family members, and co-workers.
• Participate in professional development and opportunities for advancement within departmental career ladder, including ECMO specialist positions.

Minimum Qualifications

Education

• Associate of Science Degree in Respiratory Therapy required; graduates of a BS Degree Respiratory Therapy program preferred.

Experience

• One or more years of recent Respiratory Therapist experience in a Tertiary Hospital preferred; recent graduates of an AS or BS Degree Respiratory Therapy program are also encouraged to apply.
• NICU and PICU experience preferred. NPS, PALS, NRP, and ACLS preferred.

Licensure/Certification:

• Credentialed by the National Board of Respiratory Care as a Registered Respiratory Therapist. Licensed by the State of Massachusetts is required.

Schedule: 36 hours per week, rotating day/night shifts, every third weekend.

**This position is eligible for full-time benefits $20,000 sign-on bonus (not eligible for internal candidates and not eligible for former BCH employees who worked here in the past 2 years)

Status

Part-Time

Regular, Temporary, Per Diem

Regular

Standard Hours per Week

36

Pay Range

$33.60-$53.77 Hourly

Office/Site Location

Boston

Job Posting Category

Allied Health and Technical, Clinical

Remote Eligibility

Onsite Only

Sign on Bonus (Example: $10,000)

$20,000