Clinical Support Specialist

What You'll Actually Do Here

You're the person patients and nurses count on when breathing gets serious. This isn't a desk job. You'll be in the thick of patient care, making real time decisions about airways, ventilators, and treatments. Here's what that looks like day to day:

• Assess patients thoroughly: breath sounds, airway patency, cuff pressure. You document everything.
• Run diagnostic tests to figure out if respiratory therapy is even needed, and if so, how the patient is responding.
• Deliver the therapies: oxygen, aerosol meds, chest physiotherapy. The hands on stuff.
• Help place artificial airways when that's what's needed.
• Start mechanical ventilation, monitor it, and keep it running right.
• Watch for therapeutic response. If something's off, you notify the provider and step in.
• Transport patients who are on ventilators. That's a team effort.
• Respond when things go sideways. Emergent situations. You make sure the airway stays open and ventilation keeps going during resuscitation.

What You Need to Bring

• An Associate Degree in Respiratory Therapy.
• A valid (NBRC RRT) Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT/RCP State) credential.
• Basic Cardiac Life Support (BCLS) certification.
• Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS) must be obtained within 6 months of your start date.
• Neonate Resuscitate certification must be obtained within 6 months of your start date.
• PALS (Pediatric Advanced Life Support) must be obtained within 6 months of your start date.
• A Respiratory Therapist or Practitioner license for the state.

How We Take Care of You

Healthcare is hard work. You deserve a benefits package that actually covers what matters. Here's what Corpus Christi Medical Center Bay Area offers:

• Medical coverage that includes free telemedicine and free AirMed transport. Prescription drug and behavioral health coverage too. Many common services at no cost or a low copay.
• Dental and vision plans, plus life and disability coverage.
• Flexible spending accounts.
• Supplemental protection plans: accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity.
• Auto and home insurance, identity theft protection, legal counseling, long term care coverage, moving assistance, and even pet insurance.
• Free counseling services for emotional, physical, and financial wellbeing.
• A 401(k) with a 100% match on 3% to 9% of pay. The match depends on your years of service.
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan. You get 10% off HCA Healthcare stock.
• Family support: fertility and family building benefits through Progyny, plus adoption assistance.
• Referral services for child, elder, and pet care, home and auto repair, and event planning.
• Consumer discounts through Abenity.
• Retirement readiness help, rollover assistance, and preferred banking partnerships.
• Education assistance: tuition support, student loan help, certification support, and dependent scholarships.
• A colleague recognition program that actually means something.
• Time away: paid time off, paid family leave, long- and short term disability coverage, and leaves of absence.
• Employee Health Assistance Fund. It offers free employee only coverage to full time and part time colleagues based on income.

Note: Eligibility for benefits can vary by location.

A Bit About This Place

Corpus Christi Medical Center is a 630+ bed healthcare system in Corpus Christi and the Coastal Bend area. Bay Area is the full service acute care hospital here. It's got serious cardiovascular services, bariatric and robotic surgery, and a Women's Center with a NICU. That's also where the graduate medical education program lives. Doctors Regional is another acute care hospital with a 24 hour ER, cardiac cath labs, orthopedics, and inpatient rehab. The Heart Hospital covers everything from diagnosis to rehab for cardiac patients. And Northwest Regional handles emergency services, lab work, and imaging.

How to Apply

Submit your application through JobXi for the Clinical Support Specialist role in Corpus Christi, TX. Make sure your resume is up to date and includes your RRT/RCP credentials and education. We'll review and reach out if there's a fit.