Speech Pathologist

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.

• Full-time: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Some weekends required.

• Evaluates patients after impairment, injury, or disease.

• Creates an individualized patient-centered treatment plan based on evidenced based practice and selects appropriate interventions based upon evaluation and assessment of patient.

• Re-evaluates and provides periodic reassessment of patient progress and contributes to discharge planning.

• Supervises treatment provided by students and assistants.

• Participates and makes recommendations for client care interventions to the interdisciplinary health care team.

• Delegates and instructs supportive personnel in services to be provided.

• 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.

• Uses professional judgment to ensure safety to self, patients, and others at all times.

• Performs all other duties as requested by manager.

• 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)