Speech Therapist

Speech Therapist Outpatient

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Speech Therapist Outpatient Are you passionate about quality and committed to excellence? Consider joining our Tidelands Health team. As our region's largest health care provider, we are also one of our area's largest employers. More than 2,500 team members at more than 70 Tidelands Health locations bring our healing mission to life each day.

A Brief Overview Responsible for providing a full range of therapeutic services including assessment, treatment planning and therapeutic interventions in an interdisciplinary environment consistent with the position's qualification, professional practices, and ethical standards. The speech therapist shall also demonstrate accountability for the contribution to program development, quality improvement, problem solving, and productivity enhancement in a flexible interdisciplinary fashion. Speech Language Pathologists (SLPs) both identify and treat communication problems related to language and speech, as well as various swallowing issues. Working with patients of all ages, Speech Language Pathologists seek to improve communication skills through vocal exercises and cognitive therapies and work on swallowing deficits through various interventions. The employee will complete other duties as assigned.

What you will do

• Review physician's referral (prescription), patient's condition, medical history, and submitted medical records to determine speech therapy treatment
• Evaluate patients' speech and or swallowing through various standardized tests and clinical observations and evaluation and records findings to develop treatment programs
• Develop a treatment plan for patients with specific goals and tasks
• Plan and prepare written treatment program based on evaluation of patient and incorporate proper interventions that can help patients' speech and or swallow deficits
• Evaluate effects of treatment at various stages and adjusts treatments to achieve maximum benefit
• Record treatment, responses, and progress in the patient's electronic medical record and prepare reports as indicated by licensure, the provider, and or insurance recommendations
• Instruct patient and family in treatment procedures to be continued at home
• Complete documentation per clinical / department guidelines and meets expectations of monthly department chart audits
• Promote/educate Organizations Rehabilitation programs to referring physicians, healthcare providers, and or co-workers by performing in-services and/or marketing activities.
• Reduce cancel/no-show rates to improve quality of care and patient outcomes
• Achieve the established average monthly patient care productivity metric
• Complete required orientation as directed by facility

Education Qualifications

• Master's Degree Required

Skills and Abilities

• Ability to utilize therapy equipment in an outpatient rehabilitation setting to provide treatment and procedures
• Punctual and dependable for assigned/confirmed shifts
• Ability to respect cultural and religious practices of patients

Licenses and Certifications

• Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology - South Carolina Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation Required
• Basic Life Support Certified - American Heart Association within 30 Days Required
• Certificate of Clinical Competence - American Speech-Language-Hearing Association within 2 Years Required

Physical Demand Light-Medium Physical Demand The intent of this job description is to provide a representative and level of the types of duties and responsibilities that will be required of positions given this title and shall not be construed as a contract for employment nor a declaration of the total of the specific duties and responsibilities of any particular position. Employees may be directed to perform tasks other than those specifically presented in this description. Tidelands Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to providing employment opportunity without regard to an individual's age, color, disability, gender, gender expression, gender identity, genetic information, national origin, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or veteran status.

Tidelands Health is an equal opportunity employer (EOE). Tidelands Health does not discriminate against employees or applicants for employment on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, age, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, gender, genetic information, familial status, or any other legally protected status.