Assistant Manager Respiratory Care

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

• 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.