Respiratory Therapist at Tristate Healthcare System

Tristate Healthcare System is a conglomeration of super specialty Healthcare providers recognized for compassionate, exceptional and individualized care categories.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Respiratory Therapist

Location: Oyo

Position Summary

• Respiratory Therapy Team, your goal in this position is to promote a patient and family centred care approach.
• You will do this by collaborating with an interdisciplinary team of care providers in a supportive and culturally sensitive manner.
• You have clinical expertise, competence, and technical skills as related to the position.
• You are also flexible to changing priorities and committed to continuous learning and professional development.
• You have great interpersonal skills, and you effortlessly connect with physicians, staff, patients, and families.
• You will take a leadership role in advocating and providing exceptional health care to patients and families.
• This position supports the hospital’s academic mandate by advancing care through teaching and learning and/or transforming care through research and innovation.
• This position contributes to the shared responsibility of ensuring health and safety policies are followed to provide for a healthy environment for patients, staff, physicians, volunteers and families on a practical level.

Duties may include, but not limited to the following

• Participate collaboratively within interprofessional healthcare teams with adult, paediatric and newborn patients in the Critical Care Unit, ED, Inpatient Units, Labour & Delivery, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and Operating Room
• Provide ventilation management, weaning and discontinuation
• Perform as a member of Code Teams and Critical Care Response Team
• Assist at high risk deliveries performing neonatal resuscitation
• Perform airway management including intubations and tracheostomy tube insertions
• Perform insertion of arterial lines
• Administer pharmaceutical substances in respiratory care
• Perform related diagnostic tests including procurement and interpretation of arterial blood gases, assisting with bronchoscopies
• Supervise, teach and evaluate students as assigned by clinical coordinator
• Educate patients, families, caregivers and health care professionals in respiratory care
• Demonstrate the ability to lift and position patients and related equipment.
• Educate physicians and patients on Obstructive/ Central Sleep Apnea
• Administer therapy to treat CSA/ OSA
• Knowledge of CPAP/BiPAP/ APAP.

Qualifications

• Diploma/Degree in Respiratory Therapy
• Current Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
• Current Advance Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) certification
• Current NRP certification
• Experience in adult intubation and adult radial arterial line insertion
• Experience in neonatal intubation.

We Offer
What We Offer Working at Tristate Healthcare System/ Complete Respiratory Care Nigeria means working with a dynamic team of fellow healthcare providers, staff, and volunteers in our leading hospitals.

Application Closing Date
28th September, 2018.

Method of Application
Interested and qualified candidates should send their Resume and Cover Letter to: info@tristatehs.com

Note: Only those candidates granted an interview will be contacted.