Speech Language Therapist - Pediatrics

Clinical Speech Language Pathologist - Pediatrics
Join Cleveland Clinic Westlake Medical Campus and experience world-class healthcare at its best. In our rehabilitation department, our specialists provide a wide range of quality outpatient rehabilitation services. The one-on-one relationship between patients and our highly trained therapists, coupled with individualized, hands-on treatment, plus helpful instruction on home self-help care, provides patients with a prescription for a brighter future.
As a Speech Pathologist, you will have the rewarding opportunity to provide care to patients in our Westlake location with the possibility to float within various Cleveland Clinic locations from Beachwood, Stow Falls, Medina, Cleveland and Middleburg Heights. In this role, you will perform diagnostic speech pathology test procedures and evaluate communication and swallowing function of patients. This includes interpreting and reporting test results to facilitate medical diagnosis, providing counseling and education about communication and the diagnosis to patients and their families, and determining therapeutic plans, including the need for therapy, frequency of treatment, focus for intervention, prognosis and duration of therapy.
Perform re-evaluation to determine progress after therapy.
Provide observations about hearing and other behavior to help determine the need for other services.
Maintain speech pathology equipment and materials.
Assist with planning, budget, service or project development, fee setting, purchase of new equipment or materials.
Master's degree in speech/language pathology.
Hold or be eligible for a Speech-Language Pathology License (SP) from the State Board of Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology.
Hold Certification of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA).
Requires critical thinking skills, decisive judgment, and the ability to work with minimal supervision.
Manual dexterity and visual acuity sufficient to perform tests.
Personal Protective Equipment:
~ Follows standard precautions using personal protective equipment as required.

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