Speech Language Pathologist

SUMMARY

This position is responsible for providing a comprehensive range of speech, language, and/or feeding services including assessment, treatment, and parent education/coaching, in a multidisciplinary setting.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

• Conducts age-appropriate clinical and functional speech-language/communication evaluations/assessments, develops therapy treatment plans based upon evaluation/assessment findings and patient/family input

• Provides skilled, evidenced-based therapy services and adapts treatment to patient’s progress and needs

• Incorporates parents/guardians in treatment sessions using a coaching model

• Collaborates within a multidisciplinary model, including multidisciplinary clinics and co-treatment sessions with other therapeutic providers (e.g., physical therapy, occupational therapy, audiology, nutritionists)

• Provides ongoing education to parents, families, educators, and other professionals regarding speech-language and feeding therapies and their impact on communication, learning, socialization, and overall quality of life, as well as advances in diagnoses and treatment

• Documents evaluations/assessments, treatments, consultations, patient/family education, and all relevant and required patient care information in the electronic health record in an accurate and timely manner, in accordance with clinic policies

• Participates in new staff orientation and ongoing staff education

• Performs other duties as required and assigned

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

• Knowledge of evidence-based approaches to planning and providing patient care; experience in measuring and reporting clinical and functional outcomes of care to parents, physicians, and other professionals

• Knowledge of clinic-wide, local, state, and national regulatory requirements and ability to execute job duties consistent with them

• Experience with light-tech and high-tech forms of augmentative and alternative communication and/or personal amplification such as, cochlear implants, bone-anchored hearing aids, conventional hearing aids, and classroom amplification technology

• A team member should possess specialty training in at least one of the following areas: cleft lip and palate, Deaf/Hard of Hearing, feeding, autism, augmentative and alternative communication, early intervention, and complex, rare medical conditions

• Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and relevant software skills

• Ability to maintain confidentiality of patient, personnel, and corporate data

• Ability to select and use age, diagnosis, and developmentally appropriate assessment methods, standardized tests, and other tools to evaluate the communication abilities of children of all ages and varied disorders

• Ability to complete screenings for specific needs including feeding, AAC, VPI, and listening and spoken language; and refer, as appropriate, for specialized evaluation and treatment

• Ability to develop appropriate, measurable treatment goals, document progress towards goals, modify treatment plans according to patient progress and established policies

• Ability to provide culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate intervention services; work with and support interpreters and translators, as needed

• Supervises students and clinical fellows, as well as other support personnel in accordance with all local, state, and national guidelines

• Ability to effectively manage time with a proven ability to meet deadlines; organization and attention to detail

• Ability to operate personal computer and related office equipment as needed to perform job function

Qualifications

Education:

Master’s Degree in Speech Language Pathology required

Experience:

Two years related pediatric experience preferred

Licenses and Certificates:

Speech Language Pathologist Licensure from the state of Arizona SLP Licensing Board required

Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech Language Hearing Association required

AHCCCS Provider identification number required, may be obtained upon hire

BLS certification required

AGE OF PATIENTS ATTENDED BY EMPLOYEE IN THIS POSITION

Check all that apply:

___ N/A X Neonatal (newborn) X Pediatric (birth-13) X Young Adult (14-21) X Adult (21-65)

FINGERPRINT CLEARANCE

Employees are required to maintain a current Arizona Department of Public Safety Level 1 Fingerprint Clearance Card. Evidence of a current and valid fingerprint clearance card must be received to begin and maintain employment.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of that which an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. 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 regularly required to stand; walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to sit; climb or balance; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and taste or smell. The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 25 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move more than 100 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to toxic or caustic chemicals. The employee is occasionally exposed to fumes or airborne particles, risk of electrical shock, and risk of radiation.

BLOODBORNE PATHOGEN CATEGORY: 1

Category 1: Performs tasks that involve exposure to blood, body fluids or tissue. Use of appropriate protective measures should be required.

Category 2: Performs tasks that involve no exposure to blood, body fluids or tissue but employment may require performing unplanned Category 1 tasks. The normal work routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluids or tissue but exposure or potential exposure may be required as a condition of employment. Appropriate protective measure should be readily available.

Category 3: Performs tasks that involve no exposure to blood, body fluids or tissue and Category 1 tasks are not a condition of employment. The normal work routine involves no exposure to blood, body fluid or tissues.

Children’s Clinics reserves the right to make changes to this document at any time in accordance with business needs. This document is not intended to list all duties of the job. It is descriptive only of the chief duties and responsibilities. Employment is at-will.