Respiratory Therapist - Full Time
Cincinnati, OHFull-time$36.41–49/hrSeen 4 days agoSeen in employer's feed 4 days ago
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Job overview
Select Specialty Hospital - Cincinnati Downtown is a critical illness recovery hospital providing inpatient post-ICU care to chronically and critically ill patients. The Respiratory Therapist evaluates patients, recommends treatment plans, and provides respiratory care for complex medical and surgical conditions. The role includes 12-hour day shifts and offers career development programs, tuition reimbursement, continuing education, and benefits for full-time team members.
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Overview
Position: Respiratory Therapist (RT)
Location: Cincinnati, OH
Schedule: Full Time - 12 Hour Shifts - Day Shift 7:00a-7:00p
Compensation: $36.41 to $49.00 per Hour, Based off of Experience
Sign On bonus: $10,000
Select Specialty Hospital - Cincinnati Downtown 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
Location : Location US-OH-Cincinnati
Job ID 388825
Position Type Full Time
Experience (Years) 1
Category Respiratory Therapy - Respiratory Therapist
Company Select Specialty Hospital - Cincinnati
How this job compares
Set against the 4,109 open Respiratory Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$36.41–49/hr
- Ohio median$37–48/hr80 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr1,735 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $42.71/hr, is close to the Ohio median midpoint ($43/hr) — in the middle half of Respiratory Therapist hourly ranges in Ohio.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 278 open Respiratory Therapist jobs in Ohio and 4,109 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Ohio
- Cleveland Clinic71 open
- Select Medical (this employer)49 open
- Bon Secours Mercy Health26 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 (1,245 postings).
- Education
- 104 of the 4,109 open Respiratory Therapist jobs (3%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 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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