Registered Respiratory Therapist - Respiratory Care - Part Time
Compensation
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- Employment & setting
- Part-Time
- Call expectations
- Not specified
- Weekends
- Not specified
Job Description
Facility
CoxHealth South: 3801 S National Ave, Springfield, Missouri, United States of America, 65807 Medical South: 3525 S National Ave, Missouri, United States of America, 65807
Department
1083 Respiratory Care Unit South
Scheduled Weekly Hours
24
Hours
24
Work Shift
Day Shift (United States of America)
CoxHealth is a leading healthcare system serving 25 counties across southwest Missouri and northern Arkansas. The organization includes six hospitals, 5 ERs, and over 80 clinics. CoxHealth has earned the following honors for workplace excellence:
- Named one of Modern Healthcare’s Best Places to work five times.
- Named one of America’s Greatest Workplaces, Greatest Workplaces in Healthcare (2025, 2026), Greatest Workplaces for Women (2023, 2024), and Greatest Workplaces for Diversity (2024) by Newsweek and Plant-A Insights Group.
- Acknowledged by Forbes as one of the Best Employers for New Grads.
- Healthcare Innovation's Top Companies to Work for in Healthcare (2025).
Benefits
- Medical, Vision, Dental, Retirement with Employer Match and more (20+ hrs/week)
- For a comprehensive list of benefits, please click here: Benefits | CoxHealth
Job Description
Job Summary
The Registered Respiratory Therapist provides professional respiratory focused intervention during all phases of the patient care stay. The Registered Respiratory Therapist assesses and assists in the determination of a respiratory plan of care based on physical assessment, diagnosis, and patient history.
The Registered Respiratory Therapist may provide medicated and non-medicated therapies, invasive and noninvasive ventilation, oxygen administration and titration, diagnostic testing as related to ventilation and pulmonary function as well as arterial blood gas analysis.
Job Requirements
Education
- Required: Graduate of an accredited Respiratory Program
- Preferred: Bachelor's Degree in a related field
Experience
No prior experience required
Skills
- Provides care as appropriate to age of population served.
- Proficient in safely providing all routine and emergent respiratory modalities.
- Able to assess patients and provide patient care per protocol.
- Provide accurate and appropriate electronic documentation.
- Provide accurate and appropriate education to patients, students and new staff.
- Possesses assessment and critical thinking skills
- Possesses in depth knowledge of anatomy and physiology
- Adheres to infection prevention practices and facility safety policies and procedures.
Licensure/Certification/Registration
- Missouri State License for Respiratory
- RRT credential from the NBRC
- Must obtain BLS within 90 days of hire
Key Responsibilities
The Registered Respiratory Therapist provides professional respiratory interventions, including ventilation, oxygen therapy, and diagnostic testing. They are responsible for assessing patients and developing respiratory care plans based on physical assessments and patient history.
Requirements
Candidates must be graduates of an accredited Respiratory Program and hold a Missouri State License for Respiratory and an RRT credential from the NBRC. No prior experience is required, but the ability to perform routine and emergent respiratory modalities is essential.
Key Skills
Respiratory Therapy Career Context
Of the 50 active Respiratory Therapy listings this role was benchmarked against, 2% are remote, 74% have no call, 50% require no weekends.
Respiratory Therapy pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Aug 2026).
The cost-of-living index for Missouri is 90.8 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 60.1% of Missouri clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).
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Living in Springfield
- Typical 3-bedroom home value
- $238k
- Typical market rent
- $1,200/mo
- Residents’ average commute
- 18 min
- Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
- 88.6
- State income tax
- Up to 5.3%
Sources & methodology
Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.
BEA 2024 · Springfield, MO metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.
City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.