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HHS Requisition # 116681
Location: McMaster Children’s Hospital
Status: Regular Full-Time
Rate: $38.35 – $53.28
Unit Summary
Step into a job that opens countless doors. As one of Canada’s largest and most diverse hospitals, we’re providing advanced care to people of all ages from across the province. You can explore advancement opportunities, take professional development courses, and stretch yourself as a leader, all at HHS. We are the largest employer in the greater Hamilton region, and play a vital role in training the next generation of health professionals in collaboration with our academic partners, including McMaster University and Mohawk College. Hamilton Health Sciences is a hospital system of 18,000 staff, physicians, researchers and volunteers that proudly serves south central Ontario residents. We also provide specialized, advanced care to people from across the province.
McMaster Children’s Hospital, located on the McMaster University campus in Hamilton’s beautiful Westdale neighborhood has been providing care to children from across the region since 1988. Here, patients ranging in age from infancy to 18 years benefit from a family-centered approach that prioritizes the child’s emotional, mental, and physical well-being. The hospital is home to the fastest-growing kids-only emergency department in Ontario, one of Canada’s most advanced neonatal intensive care units, and Ontario’s second largest Pediatric Intensive Care unit (PICU). It has a range of programs and clinics with unique expertise in a number of areas including children’s cancer, digestive diseases, and mental health.
Position Summary
McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) is seeking a passionate and experienced Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) to join our team and work primarily on the Pediatric Critical Care Transport Team (PCCTT). This role offers a unique opportunity to deliver life-saving care to critically ill pediatric patients in a dynamic and challenging transport environment.
In this role, you will provide advanced respiratory care to critically ill pediatric patients during emergency critical care transports. This position requires clinical expertise, quick decision-making, outstanding communication and collaboration skills, and the ability to thrive in a dynamic and high-pressure environment.
The PCCTT works alongside the PICU at MCH. The team consists of a PCCTT Registered Nurse (RN) and Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) transport dyad working in collaboration with a Transport Physician Lead – Medical Control Officer (MCO). The PCCTT supports acute pediatric populations by providing transport and stabilization to acutely ill or unstable patients from birth (greater than 3kg) to 18 years of age. The team provides a 24/7 service and supports provincial mandates for safe and timely transport of critically ill neonates and children to, and between, tertiary centers for specialty care. The interdisciplinary team provides family-centered care with a strong focus on evidence-based practice and continuous improvement initiatives.
Key Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Involvement in all aspects of extramural transport of critically ill patients < 18 years, including planning, assessment, care provision, monitoring etc.
- Providing airway management expertise, including problem solving and delivery of adjunctive interventions/therapies to support safe mobilization of patients
- Providing ventilation management including noninvasive and invasive ventilation support for patients
- Performing critical assessments of health status including history, physical examination and review of diagnostic studies; and relaying findings to the delegated MCO
- Collaborating and partnering with transport team members (physicians, nurses, paramedics) and community care providers at referring hospitals to ensure comprehensive patient care
- Maintaining equipment, ensuring readiness, and preforming quality assurance checks
- Participation in continuing education, training, simulations, and quality improvement initiatives to maintain proficiency in transport-specific knowledge and skills
- When not required for transport duties, works collaboratively with the Pediatric RRT team to support the MCH PICU, inpatient wards, and the Pediatric Emergency Department
Schedule Work Hours
Days, Nights, Weekends and Holidays
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited program in Respiratory Therapy
- Current registration with the College of Respiratory Therapists of Ontario
- Successful completion of the Canadian Board of Respiratory Care (CBRC) exam
- Certification in Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification
- Current Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP) and Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS) certification or willing to complete within six (6) months of start date
- Demonstrated ability to perform well in critical high stress situations
- Minimum of two (2) years recent experience in a pediatric setting
- Minimum of two (2) years recent critical care experience preferred
- Minimum of two (2) years recent experience in Critical Care Transport
- Demonstrates knowledge of pediatric growth and development
- Highly developed interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with all team members, patients, and families
- Demonstrates teaching and mentoring skills with recommended completion of the Preceptor Workshop
- Demonstrates strong critical thinking, self-assessment/reflective practice, conflict management, and problem solving skills
- Exercises good judgement, organizational and leadership skills
- Ability to work in confined and mobile spaces and lift up to 80 kg
- Demonstrates ability to work and manage in high-stress situations and handle competing priorities
- Demonstrates ability to work collaboratively on a multi-disciplinary patient care team and to work independently and be self-directed
Proficiency in both Official Languages would be an asset.
Hamilton Health Sciences is an equal opportunity employer.
