Job Summary:

Supervises local staff in providing high quality, patient-focused, and cost-effective pulmonary clinical services. Ensures compliance with federal, state, and local regulations.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Assists in developing, implementing, and monitoring pulmonary standards.

• Assists in coordinating Plans of Treatment and customer focused delivery of services.

• Ensures all patient care is in compliance with administrative, legal, and regulatory requirements and follows established policies and procedures.

• Works with Site Pulmonary Clinical Services Manager and other health care providers to develop, implement, and provide efficient patient/pulmonary care services and outcomes.

• Identifies and recommends best practice models.

• Assists in developing, implementing, and evaluating standards of practice, to improve quality and service to members.

• Assists in meeting short and long term financial goals by continually planning, developing, monitoring, adjusting and evaluating annual budgets.

• Identifies opportunities to reduce costs, while maintaining quality of services.

• Supervises staff, ensuring all are fully competent in providing the highest quality of care to members.

• Assists in determining appropriate staffing to maintain the service levels.

• Assists in developing programs and presents in-service programs to pulmonary staff.

• Supervises daily unit operations, department and employee safety programs, and risk management.

• Kaiser Permanente conducts compensation reviews of positions on a routine basis. At any time, Kaiser Permanente reserves the right to reevaluate and change job descriptions, or to change such positions from salaried to hourly pay status. Such changes are generally implemented only after notice is given to affected employees.

Secondary Functions:

• Hours can vary depending on need of the department.

• Mon-Fri; Weekends as needed.

  Basic Qualifications:

  Experience

• Minimum two (2) years of experience in respiratory care, in a multi-faceted health care system, multi- service provider setting or academic setting required.

  Education

• High School Diploma or General Education Development (GED) required.

  License, Certification, Registration

• Respiratory Care Practitioner License (California)

• Registered Respiratory Therapist Certificate

  Additional Requirements:

• Knowledge of budgeting, staffing, systems, quality improvement, and clinical care delivery in an inpatient setting.

• Knowledge of federal, state, and local regulations.

• Must be able to work in a Labor/Management Partnership environment.

  Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree in respiratory care, health care administration, nursing, business administration OR four (4) years of equivalent experience in related field.

COMPANY: KAISER

TITLE: Assistant Manager Respiratory Care

LOCATION: San Leandro, California

REQNUMBER: 1311368

External hires must pass a background check/drug screen. Qualified applicants with arrest and/or conviction records will be considered for employment in a manner consistent with Federal, state and local laws, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran, or disability status.