Supervisor Respiratory Therapy
Santa Maria, CAJob$48.6–72.29/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Respiratory Therapist Supervisor leads Respiratory Care technical staff through instruction and evaluation, assists the Director or Manager with department management, and provides direct patient care as needed. The role oversees staff workload, patient-care assignments, quality, resources, and staff education, and manages daily department operations to meet practice and regulatory standards. It also supports training and serves as a resource in respiratory care across hospital areas and patient populations.
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Job Summary and Responsibilities
As our Respiratory Therapist Supervisor, you will lead our Respiratory Care technical staff, providing instruction and evaluation, while assisting the Director/Manager in department management. This role also includes direct patient care as needed.
Every day you will supervise, instruct, and evaluate Respiratory Care Practitioners. You'll assist the Director/Manager in overall department management and provide direct patient care. Daily contacts include subordinates, co-workers, patients, medical staff, and physicians.
To be successful, you will demonstrate strong leadership, instructional, and evaluative skills, with advanced clinical expertise in respiratory care. Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities for staff supervision and interdisciplinary contact are essential.
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Provides expertise in care to all areas of the hospital and all patient populations on an independent level when required. Functions as a resource for both internal and external customers in all aspects of Respiratory Care.
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Oversees staff and workload, respecting changing priorities in daily operations. Supervises patient care in terms of workload assignments, quality of care and utilization of resources on all shifts. Supervises planning of staff education, in services and staff meetings.
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Manages the daily operations of the Respiratory Care Department to ensure compliance to all standards of practice and licensing/regulatory requirements.
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Supervises training of new employees and students and nursing personnel. Functions as a resource for both internal and external customers in all aspects of Respiratory Care. Assists in coordinating services to insure appropriateness, consistency, efficiency, effectiveness, and quality of service, for all patient age groups.
Job Requirements
Required
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Associates Other in Respiratory Therapy orrelated Field and Minimum of five (5) years of clinical acute care experience as a Respiratory Therapist, upon hire
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California Respiratory Care Practitioner, upon hire
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Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT), upon hire
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American Heart Association certifications
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BLS - CPR, upon hire
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ACLS, within 30days of hire
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PALS, within 30 days of hire
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Neonatal Resuscitation Program (NRP), within 30 Days
Where You'll Work
Founded in 1940, Dignity Health - Marian Regional Medical Center is a 191-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Santa Maria, California. Serving over 250,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II Trauma Center, Level III NICU, cancer care, orthopedics, and stroke care. Additionally, Marian Regional Medical Center has been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. It is a Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Center, and the only healthcare facility on the Central Coast to offer ECMO.
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Pay Range
$48.60 - $72.29 /hour
We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
How this job compares
Set against the 4,121 open Respiratory Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$48.6–72.29/hr
- California median$48–60/hr70 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr1,745 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $60.45/hr, is 10% above the California median midpoint ($55/hr) — in the middle half of Respiratory Therapist hourly ranges in California.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 94 open Respiratory Therapist jobs in California and 4,121 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in California
- Dignity Health (this employer)15 open
- Sutter Health14 open
- Health Advocates Network10 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 5 years of experience — more than three in four Respiratory Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for (median 1 year, across 1,259 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for an associate degree; 1,501 of the 4,121 open Respiratory Therapist jobs (36%) ask for an associate degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 6, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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