Speech-Language Pathologist, SLP - (Clinic Based)

Setting: Outpatient Rehab Clinic

We are seeking a compassionate, skilled, and dedicated  Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)to join our clinical team in  Tuscaloosa, AL . In this outpatient role, you will provide holistic care to patients across the lifespan—from young children to seniors—addressing speech, language, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders. Join us in making a lasting impact on our community’s communication and quality of life!

You will work as part of a collaborative, multidisciplinary clinical team alongside Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists to deliver individualized, goal-oriented care that restores function and improves our patients' overall quality of life.

Key Responsibilities

• Comprehensive Patient Evaluations: Conduct standardized and informal assessments for speech, articulation, expressive/receptive language, voice, fluency, swallowing/dysphagia, and cognitive-communication function.

• Individualized Treatment Planning: Develop evidence-based plans of care tailored to each patient’s unique goals, diagnoses, and functional needs across the lifespan.

• Therapeutic Interventions:

  • Administer targeted speech and language therapy to improve articulation, phonology, and expressive/receptive language skills.

  • Implement feeding and swallowing therapy (dysphagia management), incorporating oral-motor exercises and safe swallowing protocols.

  • Deliver cognitive-communication therapy to enhance memory, sequencing, problem-solving, safety awareness, and executive functioning.

  • Introduce compensatory strategies and augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices as appropriate.

• Patient & Family Education: Educate patients, caregivers, and families on home exercise programs, safe swallowing precautions, and communication strategies to maintain progress outside the clinic.

• Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Partner closely with physical therapists, occupational therapists, physicians, and administrative staff to deliver coordinated, holistic care.

• Documentation & Compliance: Maintain timely, precise clinical documentation (evaluations, daily progress notes, re-evaluations, and discharge summaries) in full alignment with state licensure requirements, ASHA guidelines, and facility standards.

Qualifications & Requirements

• Education: Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology or Communication Sciences and Disorders from an accredited university program.
• Licensure: Active (or eligible for) Speech-Language Pathologist license issued by the Alabama Board of Examiners in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology (ABESPA).
• Certification: Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). (Clinical Fellows / CF-SLP may be considered based on supervision availability).
• Key Traits & Skills:
• Excellent interpersonal, oral, and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and time-management capabilities.
• High level of intrinsic motivation, initiative, and adaptability.
• Experience treating diverse patient populations across lifespan (pediatric to geriatric) in an outpatient setting is preferred.