Speech-Language Pathologist Outpatient - Contract

Speech Language Pathologist

Start Date: ASAP
Shift: Variable - 5x8 Days
Assignment Length: 13 Weeks
Weekends: No
Call Requirements: None
Years of Experience: 1
First Timers Accepted: Yes
Certs REQ: BLS, NBCOT, AK License
Will the clinician float within scope to meet facility needs? Yes - will cover Outpatient, Acute Care, and Long Term Care
Open to accommodating a block schedule?: Yes
Locals Accepted: No - Candidates perm address must be at least 50 miles from facility
Pending License Accepted: N/a
Guaranteed Hours: 72 Hours per 2 weeks - Traveler can be called off for 1, 8-hour shift per 2 weeks

This is a small, Critical Access Hospital 46 bed medical center. Travelers in this role will cover outpatient, acute care, and some LTC/swing bed.

FACILITY INFORMATION
Type of Facility: Critical Access Hospital
Magnet/Teaching/Level Trauma: n/a
Total Staffed Beds: 40
Scrub Color: Any
Charting: Epic
Parking Cost: Parking is free

HOUSING/INFORMATION
Facility provides housing to travelers during assignment.
Housing units are typically 1-bedroom apartments, but may be a shared unit with another traveler.
Housing will be available for move-in not earlier than 72 hours before contract begins and not longer than 24 hours after contract ends.
PETS ARE NOT ALLOWED
Housing units are typically large enough to accommodate only the traveler. Bringing additional family members is not common and needs to be approved by the facility.
Housing unit will need to be cleaned upon departure or it will be subject to additional cleaning fees billed to traveler

Job Requirements & Qualifications

• Years of Experience:
  1 year(s)
• Patient Ratio Experience:
  -
• Charting System:
  Preferred, Epic
• Teaching Hospital Experience:
  -
• Community Hospital Experience:
  -
• LTAC Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level I Experience:
  -
• Trauma Level II Experience:
  -
• Travel Experience Required:
  No
• Certfications:Certs marked with * are preferred
  BLS
• Skills:Skills marked with * are preferred

  Work Settings

  Acute Care
  Adult Outpatient
  Adult Rehabilitation Facility*
  Long Term Acute Care (LTAC)
  Pediatric Outpatient*
  Skilled Nursing (SNF)

  Adaptive Equipment

  Alternative Communication Devices*
  Augmentative Communication*
  Communication Board
  Memory Aide*

  Billing/Documentation

  Assessment
  Discharge
  Evaluation
  Medicare A
  Medicare B
  Plan of Care
  Reassessments
  SLP Evaluation Coding

  Other Professional Skills & Knowledge

  Aural Rehabilitation*
  Functional Maintenance Programs
  In-service Training*
  Patient/Family Education

  Dysphasia Management

  Bedside Swallow Evaluation
  Compensatory Strategies
  Thermal Simulation*
  Thickening Agents

  Adult

  CVA (Cerebrovascular Accident)
  Degenerative Diseases
  Dysarthria
  Dysphagia
  Fluency*
  Hearing Impairments*
  Mental, Behavioral, and Neurodevelopmental Disorders*
  Sign Language*
  TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury)
  Voice*

  Pediatric

  Fluency*
  Hearing Impairments*
  Sign Language*

  Evaluation Tools

  Non-Evaluative Screening Tools

  Additional Skills

  Transfer Training, Fiber Optic Voice Evaluation*
  Telephone Calls