SLP Outpatient

Job Requirements

POSITION SUMMARY:

To be fully engaged in providing Quality/No Harm, Customer Experience, and Stewardship by: providing exceptional healthcare in a professional manner.

PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:

Quality/No Harm:

• Maintains patient safety at all times.
• Ensures compliance with precautions and documents all current precautions and changes in status.
• Evaluates patients thoroughly and documents evaluations according to applicable guidelines, standards and policies.
• Completes progress notes and reassessments when required and documents them according to applicable guidelines, standards and policies.
• Provides patients with effective treatments that progress them towards their goals and documents treatments according to applicable guidelines, standards and policies.
• Attends department meetings that take place during scheduled work hours; otherwise, reviews and signs meeting minutes. Attends in-services given by other staff and students that take place during scheduled work hours.

Customer Experience:

• Responds to therapy referrals and inquiries upon receipt.
• Reviews daily assignments/schedules with the team.
• Provides patients, families and staff with education regarding therapy services related to the patients' needs.

Stewardship:

• Demonstrates financial responsibility by meeting patient scheduling requirements, ensuring productivity targets are met, and utilizing their time, supplies and support staff responsibly.
• Prepares/reviews schedule for the next day.
• Issues charges that correspond to the services provided and the documented treatment times.

QUALIFICATIONS REQUIRED:

• Completion of a discipline appropriate degree from an accredited program/college.
• Current Florida license.
• Must have Certificate of Clinical Competence or obtain within 6 months of completion of Clinical Fellowship Year.
• Interpersonal communications skills.
• Basic computer skills or willingness to learn.
• Must hold current AHA BLS Healthcare Provider Completion Card prior to start date and maintain.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

• Knowledge and use of proper lifting and body mechanics
• Must be able to assist in lifting, standing, supporting patients.
• Able to bend and stoop as pt care requires.

MENTAL DEMANDS:

• Problem-solving ability
• Decision-making skills
• Able to interact with all people
• Able to concentrate under multiple demands/time constraints
• Able to concentrate in stressful and distracting surroundings

ABOUT HEALTH FIRST

At Health First, diversity and inclusion are essential for our continued growth and evolution. Working together, we strive to build and nurture a culture that recognizes, encourages, and respects the diverse voices of our associates. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives, and backgrounds create a stronger and more collaborative work environment that delivers better results. As an organization, it fuels our innovation and connects us closer to our associates, customers, and the communities we serve.

Schedule: Full-Time

Shift Times: Days

Paygrade: PG-41