Speech Therapist (SLP)

Job Description

Job Description

COME JOIN HOUR HEALTHCARE FAMILY!

Beaver Dam Health Care Center is a skilled nursing home facility and takes pride in providing our residents with an amazing experience. We have an incredible tight-knit family of caregivers that serves our residents everyday with compassion, care and a positive attitude! We value and work hard to appreciate our caregivers because we recognize they are the foundation of our organization. We would love for you to join that family!

Respect, compassion, and dignity they deserve. We understand that caring is what makes a community and without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community. It is what sets us apart from any other skilled nursing facility. At Beaver Dam Healthcare Center, our nursing staff are overly courteous, respectful and maintain a high level of professionalism at all times. Our primary goal is to get you back in a condition to be independent once again while maintaining a friendly environment and providing nutritionally enhanced meals. We are currently recruiting for a Speech Pathologist to join our team!

Benefits of this position:

• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Paid Time Off

• Great Work Environment

• 401k matched at 10%

• Flexible Hours (8 hour shifts)

• Paid Holidays

• Same day pay with Tapcheck

• Job location: Beaver Dam, WI

Purpose of this position

The purpose of this position is to provide diagnostic and therapeutic services to evaluate, treat, document and/or facilitate care for residents with impaired ability to swallow or communicate due to disease process; participate in the interdisciplinary team meetings as required; assist the Director of Nursing Service to develop communication and/or swallowing decline prevention policies and procedures.

Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to execute each essential physical and intellectual duty as identified. The requirements listed are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required.

·      Communication/Language Skills — Must have excellent verbal and written communication and organizational skills. Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common medical information. Ability to effectively communicate with residents, their families and other healthcare professionals. Ability to present information to supervisor.

·      Reasoning Ability — Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw conclusions. Computer Skills — Must be familiar with software such as Word and Excel.

·      MS in Speech-Language Pathology

·      Active Speech-Language Pathology Licensure