Respiratory Therapist; RT

Pulmonary Status:
Part time Benefits Eligible:
Yes Hours Per Week: 24 Schedule Details/Additional Information:
Pay Range: $35.50 - $53.25
** 10,000 Sign-On Bonus
** Loan Forgiveness & Tuition Reimbursement– Up to 20K each Grow Your Career,

Earn More:

Through our Clinical Ladder Program, eligible Respiratory Therapists can advance their careers and earn up to $6,000 in additional yearly bonus opportunities.

Location:

Advocate Condell Medical Center – Libertyville, IL

Schedule:

Part-time | 24 hrs/week | 3rd Shift (6pm-6am) | Adult Care and NICU | Every other weekend & holiday rotation At Advocate Condell Medical Center, respiratory therapists are more than clinicians - they’re life changers, innovators, and advocates for healthier communities. At Advocate Healthcare, your expertise helps patients breathe easier, heal faster, and live better. Join one of the nation’s leading nonprofit health systems where your skills are valued, your growth is supported, and your work truly matters.

Reputation for excellence:
Join Lake County’s only Level I Trauma Center with comprehensive heart and vascular services through the Advocate Heart Institute and Primary Stroke Center certification.

Complex, rewarding cases:
Care for a wide range of high‑acuity patients across trauma, cardiac, stroke, neurosurgery, orthopedics, oncology and more—supported by an emergency department approved for pediatrics and backed by Advocate Children’s Hospital.

Community impact:
Serve Libertyville and surrounding north‑suburban communities while supporting vital community-health initiatives.

Supportive environment:
Work in a modern hospital with all private adult rooms, access on‑site learning resources, continuing‑education programs, and comfortable staff amenities.

Uses Respiratory therapy processes to support assessment of patient utilizing a variety of skills such as pulmonary diagnostics, chest radiograph, hemodynamic values, laboratory values, and correlates blood gases and electrolytes. Can identify and address the special needs of patient population specific to department services. Operates specialized ventilators in critical and non‑critical care venues. Assists physician with bedside or other procedures as applicable to facility.

Provides medication treatments and therapies per physician order and/or patient driven respiratory protocols as prescribed. Cleans, maintains, and ensures proper functionality of equipment. Troubleshoots equipment as necessary and identifies the need for service and/or repair. Educates and instructs patients in purpose, technique, self‑care, goal of therapy, and disease management. Facilitates clinical problem solving and collaborates with other departments to provide education on managing patients.

Under physician direction, the respiratory therapist must be able to adapt and comply to policies and procedures for a variety of different service areas, perform tasks and/or special duties as required by assignment and maintain performance standards and organizational behaviors. Demonstrates effective communication, feedback, and conflict resolution skills. Provides clear, concise, timely, and accurate patient handoff. Promotes a culture of safety by recognizing and applying proper safety measures to prevent patient harm.

Reports patient safety events and near misses in a timely manner. Seeks to identify potential safety issues and assists in the implementation of corrective actions. Teaches, educates, and precepts new teammates, orientees, and students. Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients…