Speech Language Pathologist - Acute CareLegacy Health
Speech Language Pathologist - Acute Care
Equal Opportunity Employer/Vet/Disabled
US-OR-SILVERTON
Job ID: 26-46379
Type: On-Call (10% Differential and Min Shift Availability Required)
Silverton Medical Ctr campus
Overview
Your greatest reward is helping patients communicate and thrive in the life they love. As a Speech Language Therapist, you will assess, plan, and implement personalized treatment programs designed to achieve the best possible outcomes. If you share this passion and enjoy collaborating within a multidisciplinary team, we invite you to explore this rewarding opportunity.
Responsibilities
EVALUATION AND TREATMENT PLANNING
Consistently identifies patients’ subjective and objective limitations.
Incorporates age and disability appropriate assessment tools and procedures.
Develops specific, effective, and individualized therapeutic programs with measurable long and short-term goals, including projected timeframes for achievement.
Maximizes patient and caregiver participation in goal-setting and discharge planning.
Coordinates treatment plans with interdisciplinary team members.
TREATMENT IMPLEMENTATION
Utilizes age-appropriate treatment skills aligned with level of experience.
Performs modalities and procedures in compliance with established professional standards.
Applies a variety of techniques tailored to each patient’s unique needs.
Ensures treatment progression aligns with established goals.
Demonstrates clinical reasoning and judgment to support the treatment plan.
Regularly updates and revises treatment plans to address new problems, changes in patient status, or functional limitations.
Actively involves patients and caregivers in treatment to promote functional outcomes.
Provides education and opportunities for functional carryover through home exercise programs.
DOCUMENTATION
Produces legible, accurate, timely, and concise documentation including medical records, letters to physicians, communication with payors/vendors, daily flow sheets, and progress notes.
PATIENT/FAMILY EDUCATION
Tailors education to meet the age and educational level of patients and families.
Recognizes and respects patient and family belief systems.
Designs educational programs that align with realistic patient and family goals.
Provides written and verbal home education materials to patients and caregivers.
Qualifications
Education:
- As required by licensure.
Skill Requirements:
- Knowledge of medical and neurological terminology and behavioral management techniques.
- Exceptional verbal and written skills.
- Demonstrates competency, as appropriate to the ages of patients served, in the ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs; a knowledge of normal growth and development; and an understanding of the range of treatment needed by these patients.
- Must have excellent organizational skills to facilitate program development.
- Computer skills.
Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.
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