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Hourly Pay Range: $31.75 - $47.63 - The hourly pay rate offered is determined by a candidate's expertise and years of experience, among other factors.
Position Highlights:
- Respiratory Therapist, Pulmonary Rehab
What you will need:
- License Licensed by the State of Illinois as a Respiratory Care Practitioner required
- Education: Graduate of an American Medical Association (AMA) approved school of respiratory therapy required
- Certification: CPR (BLS) required
- Pulmonary rehabilitation experience highly preferred
- Cardiac rehabilitation experience or willingness to cross-train preferred
What you will do:
- Provide outpatient respiratory therapy services within the Pulmonary Rehabilitation program
- Conduct comprehensive initial assessments and ongoing reassessments
- Develop individualized treatment and exercise plans based on patient condition and goals
- Assess exercise tolerance, determine appropriate exercise progression, and manage oxygen titration during activity
- Monitor physiological responses and adjust care plans to promote safe improvement
- Lead and supervise structured pulmonary rehabilitation exercise sessions, including warm-ups and cool-downs
- Provide patient and family education on breathing techniques, pulmonary disease management, activity guidelines, and risk factor modification
- Collaborate with a multidisciplinary team to ensure coordinated care
- Support Cardiac Rehabilitation sessions when cross trained
- Maintain accurate documentation in accordance with hospital policy
- Ensure emergency preparedness within the rehabilitation setting
- Participate in departmental initiatives and quality improvement efforts
- Communicate clearly and effectively with patients, families, physicians, and care team members
About Us
Endeavor Health is a fully integrated healthcare delivery system committed to providing access to quality, vibrant, community-connected care, serving an area of more than 4.2 million residents across six northeast Illinois counties. Our more than 25,000 team members and more than 6,000 physicians aim to deliver transformative patient experiences and expert care close to home across more than 300 ambulatory locations and eight acute care hospitals - Edward (Naperville), Elmhurst, Evanston, Glenbrook (Glenview), Highland Park, Northwest Community (Arlington Heights) Skokie and Swedish (Chicago) - all recognized as Magnet hospitals for nursing excellence. For more information, visit www.endeavorhealth.org. When you work for Endeavor Health, you will be part of an organization that encourages its employees to achieve career goals and maximize their professional potential. Please explore our website (www.endeavorhealth.org) to better understand how Endeavor Health delivers on its mission to "help everyone in our communities be their best". Endeavor Health is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with disabilities. Please refer to the main career page for more information. Diversity, equity and inclusion is at the core of who we are; being there for our patients and each other with compassion, respect and empathy. We believe that our strength resides in our differences and in connecting our best to provide community-connected healthcare for all. EOE: Race/Color/Sex/Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Vets, VEVRRA Federal Contractor.
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