Respiratory Therapist CRT/RRT Full Time Days

BHS Baptist Healthcare System; Springlee (KY); On-site; USD 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Baptist Health seeks a Respiratory Therapist CRT/RRT to join our full-time day shift. This role requires serving patients with respiratory care needs and collaborating with the care team to uphold clinical excellence.

Applicants must complete an accredited Respiratory Care program, hold NBRC CRT/RRT certification, possess a Kentucky license, and obtain BCLS within a week and ACLS within 6 months of hire. Baptist Health is an Equal Opportunity employer.

Qualifications

• Requires successful completion of accredited program for Respiratory Care.
• NBRC Certification required (CRT/RRT).
• Active Kentucky Respiratory Care Practitioner License required.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) due within 1 week of hire and prior to providing direct patient care.
• Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) due within 6 months of hire.

Responsibilities

• Provide respiratory care to assigned patients per the respiratory care protocols.
• Demonstrate solid knowledge and working proficiency in respiratory care practices and procedures.

Job description

Summary Job Description: Respiratory Therapist CRT/RRT- Full Time, Days Status: Full Time Shift: First ** Every third weekend required**

Job Summary: Demonstrates a solid knowledge and working proficiency in the skills of Respiratory Care practices, procedures and techniques and is responsible for the patients that are assigned to his/her care within the practices of Respiratory Care.

Requirements: Requires successful completion of accredited program for Respiratory Care. NBRC Certification Required (CRT/RRT). Active Kentucky Respiratory Care Practitioner License Required. Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) due within 1 week one hire and prior to providing direct patient care. Advanced Cardiovascular Life Support (ACLS) due within 6 months of hire.

If you would like to be part of a growing family focused on supporting clinical excellence, teamwork and innovation,

Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Founded in 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky, Baptist Health is a full-spectrum health system dedicated to improving the health of the communities it serves. The Baptist Health family consists of 10 hospitals, employed and independent physicians, and more than 470 points of care, including outpatient facilities, physician practices and services, urgent care clinics, outpatient diagnostic and surgery centers, home care, fitness centers, and occupational medicine and physical therapy clinics.

Baptist Health’s eight owned hospitals include more than 2,300 licensed beds in Corbin, Elizabethtown, La Grange, Lexington, Louisville, Paducah, Richmond and New Albany, Indiana.

Baptist Health also operates two joint venture hospitals: the 410-bed Baptist Health Deaconess Madisonville in Madisonville, Kentucky with Deaconess Health System based in Evansville, Indiana, and the Baptist Health Rehabilitation Hospital, a 40‑bed inpatient rehabilitation facility with Encompass Health, based in Birmingham, Alabama.

Baptist Health employs more than 24,000 people in Kentucky and surrounding states.

Baptist Health is the first health system in the U.S. to have all of its hospitals recognized by the American Nursing Credentialing Center with either a Magnet® or Pathway to Excellence® designation for nursing excellence.

Baptist Health’s employed provider network, Baptist Health Medical Group, has more than 1,820 employed providers offering care in 78 specialties, including approximately 862 physicians and 958 advanced practice clinicians.

Baptist Health’s physician network also includes more than 2,000 independent physicians.

EEO Statement: Baptist Health is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer, and seeks to employ individuals without regard to race, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, religious or political beliefs, protected veteran status, employment status or any other protected class identified in any federal, state, or local law. Baptist Health specifically encourages minority, female, disabled, veteran and other candidates from diverse backgrounds to apply and strengthen our team.

Please note that Baptist Health is a drug‑free workplace and employment with Baptist Health is subject to post‑offer, pre‑employment drug testing.

NOTICE OF NONDISCRMISSION AND ACCESSIBILITY TO SERVICES Persons with hearing and speech impairments can contact Baptist Health facilities by using the Kentucky Relay Service, a toll‑free telecommunication device for the deaf (TDD). For voice to TDD, call 800.648.6057. For TDD to voice, call 800.648.6056.

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