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Presbyterian Healthcare Services
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Registered Respiratory Therapist

Respiratory TherapistIncludes callIncludes weekendsPart-Time

Compensation

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Job Description

Location Address

4515 Coors Blvd NW Albuquerque, NM 87120

Compensation Pay Range

Minimum Offer $0.00 Maximum Offer $0.00

Summary

Presbyterian is seeking a compassionate and skilled Registered Respiratory Therapist to join our healthcare team. As an RRT, you will play a crucial role in assessing, diagnosing, and treating patients with respiratory and cardiopulmonary disorders. Your expertise and dedication will help improve patient outcomes and enhance their quality of life.

How you grow, learn and thrive matters here.

  • Educational and career development options, including tuition and certification reimbursement, scholarship opportunities
  • Staff Safety (a wearable badge that allows nurses to quickly and discreetly call for help when safety is a concern)
  • Differentials for night/weekend shifts, higher education, certifications and various lead roles (for eligible positions)
  • Malpractice liability insurance
  • Loan forgiveness through the New Mexico Higher Education Department
  • EPIC electronic charting system

Type of Opportunity: Part time FTE: 0.45 Job Exempt: No Work Shift: Nights (United States of America)

Responsibilities

Compensation & Differentials:

  • Sign on and relocation bonuses are available for qualified candidates.
  • Shift Differentials: nights $5.00 and weekends $3.00
  • Preceptor Differential
  • Differentials for higher education, certifications and various lead roles
  • Career Ladder Program Eligible Therapists may receive differential pay based on advanced certifications (RPFT, CPFT, Perinatal Pediatric, ACCS, RPSGT, etc.)

Your growth is our priority—this program is designed to elevate your skills and ensure long-term career fulfillment.

Responsibilities

  • All Certified Respiratory Therapist responsibilities.
  • Assists physicians with Bronchoscopy Procedures under departmental policy including monitoring and assessment of the level of consciousness, cardiovascular and pulmonary systems; as well as delivery of IV conscious sedation agents to include drugs in the classifications of opioids, benzodiazepines and sedative-hypnotics and their reversal agents.
  • Initiates ventilator protocols; implements and coordinates ventilator management.
  • Performs advanced airway care to include tracheotomy changes, extubating, and intubation.
  • Initiates and monitors high-frequency ventilators.
  • In NICU Therapists will also perform: Surfactant delivery, and intubation and attend high-risk deliveries.
  • Optional procedures: transport team, intubation, and backup charge therapist.
  • Initiates and monitors Nitric Oxide delivery.
  • Performs department-specific functions as detailed within the summary of the department-specific duties.

Qualifications

  • Associate degree in respiratory therapy
  • Reg Resp Therapist (NBRC)
  • Respiratory Care Practitioner-NM
  • BLS

ACLS And/or PALS

  • Six months to one year of experience in critical care is preferred.
  • We're all about well-being, starting with yours.

Presbyterian employees have access to a fun, engaging and unique wellness program, including free on-site and community-based gyms, nutrition coaching and classes, mindfulness and meditation resources, wellness challenges and more.

Learn more about our employee benefits.

About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Presbyterian exists to improve the health of patients, members, and the communities we serve. We are locally owned, not-for-profit healthcare system of nine hospitals, a statewide health plan and a growing multi-specialty medical group. Founded in New Mexico in 1908, we are the state's largest private employer with nearly 14,000 employees - including more than 1600 providers and nearly 4,700 nurses.

Our health plan serves more than 580,000 members statewide and offers Medicare Advantage, Medicaid (Centennial Care) and Commercial health plans.

AA/EOE/VET/DISABLED. PHS is a drug-free and tobacco-free employer with smoke free campuses.

Compensation Disclaimer

The compensation range for this role takes into account a wide range of factors, including but not limited to experience and training, internal equity, and other business and organizational needs.

We're Determined to Support New Mexico's Well-Being | Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Key Skills

Bronchoscopy assistanceNICU careExtubationPatient assessmentCardiopulmonary monitoring

Work-Life Balance Analysis

WeekdayDoc's proprietary algorithm rates Registered Respiratory Therapist at Presbyterian Healthcare Services a 6.4 out of 10 for work-life balance — classified as good. This places the position in the top 25% in Respiratory Therapy — ranked against 3,889 active Respiratory Therapy listings on WeekdayDoc.

Respiratory Therapy Career Context

Of the 49 active Respiratory Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 59% have no call, 53% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for New Mexico is 92.2 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.4% of New Mexico clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks26 jobs · 22 employers

401k / retirement match
85%
Sign-on bonus
35% this job
Loan repayment
15% this job
Relocation assistance
8% this job
PSLF eligible
8% this job

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.0this job 6.4
Better work-life than 80% of Respiratory Therapy listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 3,889 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • On-site
  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends

Living in Albuquerque

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$340k
Typical market rent
$1,455/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
95.5
State income tax
Up to 5.9%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

BEA 2024 · Albuquerque, NM metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.

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About Presbyterian Healthcare Services

Hospitals and Health Care
Albuquerque, NM
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

Sign-on and relocation bonuses
Shift differentials: nights $5.00, weekends $3.00
Preceptor differential
Differentials for higher education, certifications, lead roles
Career Ladder Program
Tuition and certification reimbursement
Staff Safety wearable badge
Malpractice liability insurance