Speech Pathologist
Description
Job Description
Saint Luke's South Hospital is seeking a full-time Speech Pathologist to join our team!
Provides prevention, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, management and counseling services to clients with speech/ language, cognitive-communication and /or oral-pharyngeal sensorimotor impairments. Plans directs and conducts habilitative, rehabilitative and counseling programs to treat impairments involving verbal and written language.
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Full-time: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Some weekends required.
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Evaluates patients after impairment, injury, or disease.
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Creates an individualized patient-centered treatment plan based on evidenced based practice and selects appropriate interventions based upon evaluation and assessment of patient.
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Re-evaluates and provides periodic reassessment of patient progress and contributes to discharge planning.
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Supervises treatment provided by students and assistants.
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Participates and makes recommendations for client care interventions to the interdisciplinary health care team.
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Delegates and instructs supportive personnel in services to be provided.
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Provides timely documentation per department and/or entity policy and as required by insurance provider to meet licensing, certification, regulatory, reimbursement requirements, and physician treatment plan.
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Uses professional judgment to ensure safety to self, patients, and others at all times.
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Performs all other duties as requested by manager.
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Participates in quality initiatives
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
2 years
Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Cert Clinical Competence-Speech/Lang - American Speech Language Hearing Association, Speech Pathology - Various
Bachelor's Degree
Job Details
Full Time
Day (United States of America)