Speech/Language Pathologist II - Acute Care

Speech/Language Pathologist II - Acute Care

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Join our Rex Inpatient Rehab Services team as a Speech/Language Pathologist II in our acute care setting. This FridayMonday position plays a vital role in supporting our weekend operations and ensuring exceptional patient care.

In this role, you'll help coordinate weekend scheduling across occupational, physical, and speech therapy; support patient throughput; collaborate closely with teammates; and provide high?quality, hands?on patient care.

We're seeking a clinician with five years of experience, including at least one year in acute care, who is ready to bring strong clinical skills, sound judgment, and a team?focused mindset to a dynamic weekend environment.

The Speech Pathologist II serves as a clinical specialist and subject matter expert in diagnosis and intervention management of communication, swallowing, and cognitive disorders. Employees in this classification provide evidence-based evaluation, consultation, and skilled treatment and instruction to patients and caregivers. The clinician participates in annual continuing education and provides departmental and organizational in-services to enhance personal and peer knowledge of evidence-based practice.

Responsibilities include completing speech lang pathologist documentation, billing, and statistics per team guidelines; managing daily caseload with efficiency and efficacy; administering advanced evaluation and diagnostic testing and analysis; mentoring assistive personnel and delegating responsibilities as per licensing board guidelines; developing, coordinating, and evaluating specialized programs for specific clinical service areas; providing clinical education, precepting and mentoring of students, fellows, and other disciplines; serving as resource to North Carolina government departments and statewide health professionals in specialty areas; demonstrating leadership attributes, advocating for the profession and facilitating change; and contributing to the professional development of others.