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Respiratory Therapist, Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
Vancouver, BC
Advance Your Career in Neonatal Intensive Care at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre
Are you passionate about making a profound difference in the lives of newborns and their families? Join the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at BC Women’s Hospital + Health Centre — a world leader in specialized neonatal care and the sole provincial quaternary referral centre serving British Columbia and the Yukon.
Here, you’ll develop a specialized expertise in neonatal care and transport, caring for both fragile newborns and their mothers. Our unique family-centered design features 70 single-family rooms that keep mothers, newborns, and families together—because healing happens best when families are united.
As a key member of our multidisciplinary team, you’ll collaborate closely with nurses and physicians to deliver exceptional care. You’ll be part of a dedicated resuscitation team for high-risk deliveries and urgent neonatal care scenarios, making life-saving impacts every day.
Our NICU Respiratory Therapists also lead the way in neonatal transport, working alongside BC Emergency Health Services and BC Ambulance Services to provide critical respiratory support during transfers — a unique and highly valued role.
At BCW NICU, education is embedded into your daily schedule, with integrated multidisciplinary learning opportunities designed to advance your skills and professional growth. You’ll also have the rewarding opportunity to teach families how to care for their newborns confidently at home, making a difference that extends beyond the hospital walls.
If you’re ready to join a cutting-edge, supportive environment where innovation, compassion, and family-centered care come first, the NICU at BC Women’s Hospital is the perfect place to grow your career.
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What you’ll do
- Review patient’s medical history, conduct assessments of the patient’s pathophysical condition, recommend appropriate care and document patient response and outcomes.
- Set up, checks, perform specified quality control procedures and operate respiratory equipment, making adjustments as appropriate.
- Initiate, monitor and assess ventilator dependent patients as per care protocols and daily care.
- Recommend and administer individualized medical gas therapies.
- Provide invasive and non-invasive cardio-pulmonary monitoring.
- Evaluate patient’s responses during testing, therapies and related treatments; make changes as appropriate; observe and record data on patient chart.
- Respond to cardiac arrests and other emergency calls.
- Prepare reports, statistical information and summaries of research activities as required.
- Attend departmental and program meetings to provide or exchange information.
- Participate in departmental, program and health centre committees.
- Participate in the education and mentoring of students, staff members, physicians and other health care professionals.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
What you bring
Qualifications
- Graduate of an accredited school of Respiratory Therapy and successful completion of the Canadian Board of Respiratory Care examination.
- Current and continuing registration with British Society of Respiratory Therapists (BCSRT) and the Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists (CSRT).
- Current Basic Life Support certification.
- Current Neonatal Resuscitation Program certification.
- Demonstrate comprehensive knowledge of the historic and ongoing impacts of settler colonialism and systemic racism on Indigenous Peoples within social and health contexts. This includes understanding how these factors contribute to current health disparities and barriers to care. Show a clear commitment to identifying, challenging, and eradicating Indigenous-specific racism and all forms of discrimination impacting equity-deserving groups within healthcare settings. This involves recognizing personal biases, institutional barriers, engaging in anti-racism education and training and advocating for systemic change.
- Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of legislative obligations and provincial commitments within BCW contexts found in the foundational documents including Truth & Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action (2015), In Plain Sight (2020), BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019), United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), Reclaiming Power and Place Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls Calls for Justice (2019), the Declaration Act Action Plan and Remembering Keegan: A First Nations Case Study, BC Human Rights Code, Anti-racism Data Act and how they intersect across the health care system.