Speech Pathologist

Job description

Job Description
Saint Luke's South is seeking a part-time Speech Pathologist to join our team!
The Speech Pathologist provides prevention, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, management and counseling services to clients with speech/ language, cognitive-communication and /or oral-pharyngeal sensorimotor impairments.
• This is a part time, benefit eligible position. Employee will work Monday, Thursday, and Friday. Shift is 8:00-4:30. Employee with primarily work in Saint Luke's Rehabilitation Institute but will be expected to cross train to the acute setting. This position does have weekend and holiday requirements.
• Plans directs and conducts habilitative, rehabilitative and counseling programs to treat impairments involving verbal and written language.
• 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:
Less than 1 year
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
Part Time
Day (United States of America)