Respiratory Therapist - Full-time
San Diego, CAFull-time$41–55.18/hrSeen 2w agoSeen in employer's feed 5 days ago
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Job overview
Select Medical seeks a Respiratory Therapist to provide inpatient post-ICU care to chronic and critically ill patients at its San Diego hospital. The role includes evaluating patients, recommending treatment, delivering respiratory care for complex conditions, and supporting patients and families. The schedule is full-time, with 12-hour night shifts. The employer offers career development and well-being benefits, including tuition reimbursement, continuing education, PTO, health coverage, and retirement matching.
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Overview
Position: Respiratory Therapist (RT)
Location: San Diego, CA
Schedule: Full-Time, 12-Hour Shifts, Nights
Compensation: $41.00 to $55.18 per hour
Our hospital is a critical illness recovery hospital committed to providing world-class inpatient post-ICU services to chronic, critically ill patients who require extended healing and recovery.We help patients during some of the most vulnerable, painful moments of their lives – and Respiratory Therapists (RT) play a central role in providing compassionate, excellent treatment every step of the way.
We support your career growth and personal well-being:
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Start Strong : Extensive Respiratory Therapist (RT) orientation program to ensure a smooth transition into our setting.
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Advance Your Career : Tuition reimbursement, and continuing education.
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Elevate Your Skills : Clinical ladder program.
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Ease the Burden : Student debt benefit program.
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Recharge & Refresh : Generous PTO for full-time team members to maintain a healthy work-life balance
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Your Health Matters : Comprehensive medical/RX, health, vision, and dental plan offerings for full-time team members
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Invest in Your Future: Company-matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as life and disability protection for full-time team members
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Your Impact Matters: Join a team of over 44,000 committed to providing exceptional patient care
Responsibilities
Responsibilities
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Evaluating patients and recommending an appropriate treatment plan.
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Providing respiratory care to patients with critical and complex medical and surgical conditions.
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Performing insertion and removal of endotracheal tubes.
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Promoting continuous quality improvement.
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Teaching and counseling patients/families.
Qualifications
Minimum requirements:
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Must possess "Active" CRT or RRT credential from the National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC) or state equivalent.
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Proof of graduation required: college transcript/diploma (preferred) or high school transcript/diploma or GED.
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Possess a Basic Life Support (BLS) certification by start date.
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Current state licensure is required.
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ACLS is required within 6 months of hire. (Agency RT must have ACLS upon first shift, PRN staff must have ACLS upon hire).
Preferred qualifications:
- One (1) year of related experience is preferred.
Additional Data
Equal Opportunity Employer/including Disabled/Veterans
We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable state and local laws, including but not limited to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the San Diego County Fair Chance Ordinance.
Location : Location US-CA-San Diego
Job ID 387310
Position Type Full Time-12 Hour Shift Nights
Experience (Years) 1
Category Respiratory Therapy - Respiratory Therapist
Company Select Specialty Hospital - San Diego
How this job compares
Set against the 4,121 open Respiratory Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 6, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$41–55.18/hr
- California median$48–60/hr70 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr1,745 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $48.09/hr, is 12% below 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 Health15 open
- Sutter Health14 open
- Health Advocates Network10 open
- Experience
- Respiratory Therapist postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 2 years (1,259 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,862 of the 4,121 open Respiratory Therapist jobs (45%) ask for a high school diploma 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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