Speech Therapist

Speech-Language Pathologist The Villas At Sunny Acres - Thornton, CO

Practice to the top of your license! Clinical development, career growth, and leadership training opportunities! We are an exciting next generation healthcare model!! Enjoy a fun work atmosphere, a diverse patient population, and the opportunity to create and implement the programs that will best serve the needs of your patients. We care about the WHOLE you. Ask us about our competitive compensation package, career development, continuing education and mind-body-spirit wellness programs!

Expect to receive:

• Recognition, appreciation, and value from an organization that truly understands and acknowledges the role that therapist has in the long-term care setting.
• An organization that strives to dignify post-acute care in the eyes of the world and is able to do so responsibly, morally, ethically and with a set of values that you will see nowhere else in this industry.
• A strong department head team filled with leaders that are dedicated to making US the facility of choice.
• Unending collaboration with all team members in every department.
• Clinical systems in place and specialty programs to support our population.
• Job stability, growing company.
• Clinical mentorship, job shadowing.
• Leadership development.
• Clinical and program development.
• Work life balance- flex schedule competitive benefits.
• Strong infection control to prevent COVID and keep staff/residents safe.

The Villas at Sunny Acres in Thornton, CO, is a skilled nursing facility with long term care, post-acute rehab, and geriatric outpatient therapy services provided. Every facility has an in-house therapy team no contract therapy company. All department teams work for the facility and share the same goals. Each facility is independently operated with local leadership and no corporate red tape. Decisions made at the facility for the facility staff and community needs.

Core Values (CAPLICO): Customer Second, Accountability, Passion for Learning, Love One Another, Intelligent Risk Taking, Celebration, Ownership. These values are the core of who we are as an organization and shared among all affiliated facilities.

Duties:

• Effectively screens/evaluates patients with communication, cognitive or swallowing disorders and develops appropriate plan of care following all regulatory and clinical practice standards.
• Provides rehabilitative, skilled and medically necessary treatment intervention to patients with communication, cognitive and/or swallowing disorders per regulatory and clinical practice requirements.
• Evaluates treatment outcomes for effectiveness. Services are modified in relation to patient evaluation and referrals are made in relation to outcomes.
• Provides consultation and counseling to patients, as well as families, caregivers and other service providers related to the speech disorders.
• Provides comprehensive discharge summary of services provided per regulatory and clinical requirements.
• Documents all regulatory and clinically required information in the electronic documentation system and maintains patient records according to company policy.

Qualifications:

• Licensed Speech-Language Pathologist
• This position is open to SLPs at all experience levels. New Grads Welcome! We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.

The Villas at Sunny Acres