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Lancaster General Health Manager, Respiratory Care Services in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Company
Penn Medicine Home Health
Summary
Job Title: Manager, Respiratory Care Services
Location: Lancaster, PA
1.0 FTE, Full Time, Monday-Friday. Administrator On-Call one weekend per month.
POSTION SUMMARY:
Manages and coordinates the activities of the Respiratory Care Services and Pulmonary Equipment sections within the Pulmonary Services department. Collaborates with section of Pulmonary Diagnostics to ensure optimal transition of care for pulmonary patients. Performs essential duties as outlined in the job description of a Respiratory Therapist, Clinical Supervisor, and Clinical Coordinator Patient care/customer service includes care/service to patients/customers in the following age groups: pediatric (30 days through 12 years), adolescent (13 through 18 years), adult (19 through 64 years), and geriatric (65 years and above).
ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: Qualified individuals must have the ability (with or without reasonable accommodation) to perform the following duties:
Under the supervision of the Director, provides leadership for all aspects of the Respiratory Care Services and Pulmonary Equipment sections.
Goals and Objectives – Establishes annual department goals and objectives, including development of new services, improvement of current services, a performance improvement plan, and initiatives related to improving patient and physician satisfaction, as well as patient outcomes.
Fiscal – Develops annual operating budget and three-year capital plan. Produces monthly operating report as to performance relative to budget. Produces detailed cost/benefit justifications for new positions and/or additional resources related to volume or other business changes.
Personnel – Responsible for personnel management, including hiring, firing, disciplinary processes, and creation of an annual staffing plan, which accounts for increases and decreases in volume. In conjunction with the Education Coordinator, ensures annual required in-services and continuing education for all staff are completed, as well as timely completion of performance reviews.
Operations – Oversees smooth day-to-day operations, including, in addition to clinical activities, routine business functions, such as inventory control, appropriate and timely charging, revision of charge codes, and appropriate pricing of services.
Leadership – Performs other duties and participates in activities outside of the day-to-day management of the department. Works well with other management peers on interdepartmental projects.
Regulatory Issues – Ensures that department and hospital are in compliance with any and all regulatory accrediting and policy and procedure issues.
Physician Relations – Ensures staff appropriately interact with physicians. As appropriate, seeks physician input on necessary clinical matters.
SECONDARY FUNCTIONS: The following duties are considered secondary to the primary duties listed above:
Ensures all work meets hospital and professional policy standards.
Evaluates, maintains and recommends service and preventive maintenance contracts.
Provides guidance to employee educational activities.
Represents the department at professional functions.
Acts as a liaison for respiratory care educational partners including PA College and Millersville University
Acts in the role of the Director when necessary
Other duties as assigned.
JOB REQUIREMENTS
MINIMUM REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
A registered Respiratory Therapist, issued by the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC).
Bachelor of Science or Respiratory Therapy degree or approved equivalent combination of education and experience.
Valid PA license as a Respiratory Care Practitioner.
Four (4) years supervisory/management experience.
Five (5) years of experience in clinical respiratory care including critical care
A health care provider in good standing with Medicare, Medicaid, and other federal and state health insurance programs, i.e. not excluded from participation in Medicare, Medicaid or any other federal or state health insurance program.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
Masters degree preferred.
Five (5) years of clinical experience as a supervisor/manager.
COGNITIVE REQUIREMENTS
ATTENTION/CONCENTRATION – The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to focus on certain aspects of current experience and reject others:
The position requires strong concentration skills. The individual must have the ability to voluntarily sustain concentration to a task over an extended period of time as a result of an effortful and usually deliberate heightened and focused state of attention.
NEW LEARNING AND MEMORY – The following level of ability is essential for the jobholder to learn and retain material:
A large portion of this position requires reliance on verbal memory and new learning. Efficiency in processing of verbal information, either in written or spoken form, is a major requirement and prerequisite of the job. The individual must be able to attend to and process multiple bits of information simultaneously. The individual must be able to organize and categorize this information effectively so that later recall is feasible.
PROBLEM SOLVING, REASONING AND CREATIVE THINKING – The following level of ability that is essential for the jobholder to think (in order to solve a problem) by combining two or more elements from past experience or imaginative thought:
The position requires much autonomy of thought and problem solving. The individual must be able to apply principles of logical or scientific thinking to define problems. The individual must be able to think abstractly, which is manifested in the ability to form concepts, use categories, generalize from single instances, apply procedural rules and general principles, and be aware of subtle or intrinsic aspects of a problem. The development of hypothesis and potential solutions to problems involves careful interpretation, analysis and diagnosis. The individual must be able to collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. The individual must be able to think creatively with a degree of inventiveness, experimentation and intuition. They must be able to deal with a variety of concrete and abstract variables.
APTITUDES: The following are essential requirements of the position in relation to job-worker situations. These items describe how a worker must adapt, adjust, conform or act:
Leadership, control and planning: Ability to accept responsibility for leadership, direction, control, planning, negotiating, organizing, directing, supervising, formulating practices, or making final decisions.
Performing under stressful conditions: Ability to perform under stress when confronted with emergency, critical, unusual, or dangerous situations, or in situations in which working speed and sustained attention are critical aspects of the job. Is subject to danger or risk, or to tension as a regular, consistent part of the job.
Variety and change: Ability to perform a variety of duties, often changing from one task to another of a different nature without loss of efficiency or composure involving significant differences in technologies, techniques, procedures, environmental factors, physical demands, or work situations.
Communication: Ability to exchange information with others clearly and concisely; to present ideas, facts and technical information.
Interpersonal relations: Ability to maintain relationships that facilitate task accomplishment; to cooperate and resolve conflicts; to recognize needs and be sensitive of others.
EQUIPMENT USAGE REQUIREMENTS
Equipment/Tools: Computer, Phone, Copier, Printer, Fax, Office Supplies, Ventilators, NCPAP units, patient monitors, transducers,, suction equipment, pulse oximeters, stethoscope.
Software: Microsoft Office Products, Hospital clinical information system, digital Respiratory Clinical Management software.
PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS
Rarely 0-10%; Occasionally 11-35%; Frequently 36-70%; Continuously 71-100%
Body Position/Movement:
Sit: Occasionally
Stand: Frequently
Walk: Frequently
Bend: Rarely
Push: Occasionally
Pull: Occasionally
Kneel/Squat: Rarely
Reach: Occasionally
Twist: Rarely
Balance: Rarely
Climb: Rarely
Lifting: Degree of physical exertion is : Light , exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to move objects.
Sensory Abilities specifically required:
Vision
Hearing
PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENT
WORKING CONDITIONS: Position involves exposure to the following harmful elements:
Blood borne Pathogens
Contaminated needle sticks
Radioactive Agents
Disclaimer: This job description is not intended and should not be construed to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with the job. It is intended to be a reflection of those principal job elements essential for recruitment and selection, for making fair job evaluations, and for establishing performance standards. The percentages of time spent performing job duties are estimates, and should not be considered absolute. The incumbent shall perform all other functions and/or be cross-trained as shall be determined at the sole discretion of management, who has the right to amend, modify, or terminate this job in part or in whole. Incumbent must be able to perform all job functions safely.
Benefits At A Glance:
Medical, Dental, Vision and on-site Pharmacy plans to meet individual and family needs
100% Tuition Assistance at Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences (role dependent)
Flexible Spending and Health Savings Accounts (FSA & HSA) to further reduce taxable income and empower your healthcare choices
Retirement Plan savings (403b) with employer match and annual employer contribution
Employer paid Short & Long Term Disability and Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other Wellness incentives
Disclaimer
PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH is an Equal Opportunity Employer, committed to hiring a diverse workforce. All openings will be filled based on qualifications without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, marital status, veteran status, disability, age, religion or any other classification protected by law.
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PENN MEDICINE LANCASTER GENERAL HEALTH, a member of the University of Pennsylvania Health System (Penn Medicine), is a not-for-profit health system with a comprehensive network of care encompassing Lancaster General Hospital (LGH), Women & Babies Hospital and the Lancaster Rehabilitation Hospital (a partnership with Kindred Healthcare). We are an Accredited Trauma Center-Level I through the Pennsylvania Trauma Systems Foundation with 805 Licensed beds. Our membership in Penn Medicine brings together the strengths of a world-renowned, not-for-profit academic medical center and a nationally recognized, not-for-profit community healthcare system.
Outpatient services are provided at the Downtown Outpatient and Suburban Outpatient Pavilions, along with additional outpatient centers and Express and Urgent Care locations throughout the region. Lancaster General Health Physicians is a network of more than 300 primary-care and specialty physicians, at more than 40 offices throughout the region.