SLP - Speech Language Pathologist

Extensive experience w/ geriatric and dementia patients POSITION SUMMARY: The Speech-Language Pathologist organizes and provides speech-language services to facilitate rehabilitation. S/he directs patient participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance. The Speech-Language Pathologist facilitates the learning of skills and functions essential for communication and swallowing, to diminish or remediate disorders or deficits. S/he directs activities to promote and maintain health, within the scope of practice and consistent with the Code of Ethics of the profession. RESPONSIBILITIES: Screens, examines and evaluates patients, including history, systems review, and application of appropriate tests and measures, synthesizes information and interprets examination findings to establish a diagnosis, identify impairments, determine the predicted level of improvement and the time required to achieve it, identify precautions/contraindications, and design and plan of care. Develops appropriate treatment goals and methods in collaboration with the patient and caregivers, implements the speech-language pathology treatment plan, and completes all related documentation and record keeping regarding these services. Services application of therapeutic techniques in areas such as: cognitive-communication; speech intelligibility; oral motor skills; swallowing disorders/dysphagia; perceptual abilities; orientation; memory; pragmatics; psychosocial expression; and/or functional communication. Attends and contributes to patient care, staffing conferences, and other related meetings. Supervises Clinical Fellows (CFYs), temporary licensees, students, and support personnel in accordance with state licensure requirements and professional standards, as appropriate. Coordinates the acquisition of adaptive communication devices and instructs patients in their use. Facilitates identification of hearing deficits and appropriately refers for assessment, diagnosis, rehabilitation, and/or personal amplification. Puts Patient Service first, ensuring residents and families receive high-quality, compassionate care that recognizes individual needs and rights. QUALIFICATIONS: A master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology, Communication Disorders, Communicative Disorders, or a similarly titled area acceptable to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association. Possess or be eligible for a Certificate of Clinical Competence from ASHA or be eligible to participate as an ASHA Clinical Fellow (CFY). Be licensed, certified, or credentialed as required in the state of practice. Additional Information: All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Direct Staffing Inc #J-18808-Ljbffr