Speech Pathologist - Baxter County Home Health

Speech Pathologist

Responsible and accountable for working to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, voice, fluency, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.

Job Requirements:

Education: Graduate of and degree holder from a speech-language pathology program accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology.

Preferred experience: 12 to 18 months related experience, excluding clinical affiliations required to complete a degree.

Certifications: Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech-Language Pathology (CCC-SLP).

Current Arkansas Speech-Language Pathology license in good standing required.

Current CPR certification.

Preferred Education: Masters or Doctoral Degree.

Safety Sensitive Designation: This position is deemed safety sensitive in accordance with Arkansas Act 593 governing Medical Marijuana.

Physical Demands:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job with or without an accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is required to perform the following:

• Must have the ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing to solve problems and make decisions.
• Must be able to regularly stand and walk and occasionally bend, squat, and twist.
• Occasionally requires lifting of 50 pounds or more of equipment.
• Able to occasionally push and/or pull 150 pounds wheelchair with patient.
• Occasionally lifts/transfers patients 125 pounds or more with or without assist.
• Must have a keen sense of hearing and visual acuity with or without correction to respond to critical changing patient situations.
• Must be able to operate a computer, monitor or similar screen utilizing keyboard and/or mouse.
• Must be able to handle critical and highly stressful situations with efficiency and composure.
• Ability to work in a constant state of alertness and in a safe manner.
• Ability to concentrate for long periods of time.

Work Environment: Patient care setting: within a hospital environment and in an outpatient setting. There is potential risk for exposure to communicable diseases and blood or other body fluids.