Respiratory Therapist - Full-time Days
Pittsburgh, PAFull-time$32.69–44/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
Select Specialty Hospital - Pittsburgh is seeking a Respiratory Therapist to provide inpatient post-ICU care to chronic, critically ill patients requiring extended recovery. The role includes evaluating patients, recommending treatment plans, providing respiratory care for complex conditions, managing endotracheal tubes, and educating patients and families. The position is full-time on day shifts, with a 12-hour shift schedule.
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Overview
Position: Respiratory Therapist (RT)
Location: Select Specialty Hospital - Pittsburgh (located inside UPMC Montefiore)
Schedule: Full Time, Days
Compensation: $32.69 - $44.00 per hour, plus shift differentials for weekends
Sign-on bonus: $5,000
Added Perks: Free Parking
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
Location : Location US-PA-Pittsburgh
Job ID 389591
Position Type Full Time-12 Hour Shift Days
Experience (Years) 1
Category Respiratory Therapy - Respiratory Therapist
Company Select Specialty Hospital - Pittsburgh UPMC
How this job compares
Set against the 4,125 open Respiratory Therapist jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$32.69–44/hr
- Pennsylvania median$32–40/hr31 hourly ranges
- US median$34–47/hr1,754 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $38.35/hr, is 4% above the Pennsylvania median midpoint ($37/hr) — in the middle half of Respiratory Therapist hourly ranges in Pennsylvania.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 220 open Respiratory Therapist jobs in Pennsylvania and 4,125 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Pennsylvania
- UPMC44 open
- Geisinger30 open
- Highmark Health22 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 (1,256 postings).
- Education
- This posting asks for a high school diploma; 1,890 of the 4,125 open Respiratory Therapist jobs (46%) ask for a high school diploma or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 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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