Respiratory Therapist; RT; Pediatric Units - Weekend Program

These roles focus on helping patients recover from injuries, illnesses, or surgeries and improve their physical, emotional, and functional well-being. Involves assessing, planning, and providing therapeutic interventions to enhance patients' abilities to perform daily activities and achieve their rehabilitation goals.

These roles are responsible for evaluating, treating, and caring for patients with breathing and cardiopulmonary disorders. Respiratory therapists provide oxygen therapy, manage ventilators, conduct breathing exercises, and monitor lung function to ensure patients receive optimal respiratory care.

Respiratory Therapists at UVA Health are essential clinical partners in the care of patients with complex cardiopulmonary needs.

This role offers the opportunity to practice at a high level in a nationally recognized academic medical center where respiratory expertise directly influences patient stability, recovery, and survival.

The Weekend Program offers a weekend-only shift schedule with enhanced compensation. The Weekend Program is a 12-month commitment to work 48 scheduled weekends in a 12-month period beginning with the first shift worked. Travel allowance is available for eligible employees traveling greater than 75 miles one way.

These roles focus on helping patients recover from injuries, illnesses, or surgeries and improve their physical, emotional, and functional well-being. Involves assessing, planning, and providing therapeutic interventions to enhance patients' abilities to perform daily activities and achieve their rehabilitation goals.

Respiratory therapy is a discipline that demands technical mastery, clinical judgment, and calm under pressure. At UVA Health, Respiratory Therapists work in an environment that respects that expertise—
supporting patients across acute, critical, and specialty care settings while collaborating closely with physicians, nurses, and interdisciplinary teams. This role is ideal for therapists who want their skills fully utilized in a setting where excellence is expected and supported.

As a Respiratory Therapist, you will evaluate, treat, and monitor patients with acute and chronic cardiopulmonary conditions across a broad range of clinical environments. Your work will directly support patient stabilization, disease management, and recovery.

• Deliver respiratory care therapies and interventions in accordance with physician orders and evidence-based protocols
• Assess patient respiratory status and adjust treatment approaches based on clinical presentation and response to therapy
• Manage and monitor mechanical ventilation, oxygen delivery systems, and airway support devices
• Collaborate closely with physicians, nurses, and other members of the care team to develop and implement respiratory care plans
• Provide patient and family education related to respiratory conditions, therapies, and equipment
• Document care accurately and consistently to support continuity, quality, and safety

The pace of this role is dynamic and clinically engaging. An average day may include caring for medically complex patients, responding to changes in patient condition, supporting emergent respiratory needs, and contributing to multidisciplinary rounds and care discussions. The work is hands-on, impactful, and deeply tied to patient outcomes.

UVA Health is a Magnet recognized academic medical center and Level 1 trauma center where respiratory care is central to patient survival and recovery across critical care, surgical, medical, and specialty populations.

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