Full time SLP/Speech Language Therapist

Full‑time Inpatient Speech Language Pathologist – Day Shift (United States). Staff will provide patient care, treatment, and services within the scope of their license, certification or registration and as required by law and regulation.

Evaluates patient’s need for medical equipment and orders the appropriate equipment as necessary. Evaluates equipment upon delivery and instructs patient, patient’s family, and health‑care workers on its use.

Participates in planning for patient discharge by considering and communicating with patient, family, community support/services, and environmental limitations.

Demonstrates competence in relevant software and hardware required to meet job responsibilities.

Documents patient’s status and progress through initial evaluation, progress notes, and discharge summary according to established internal/external time standards and adherence to reimbursement guidelines.

Communicates with others to integrate speech language pathology services with all aspects of patient care.

Participates in conferences/discussions as needed and exchange of written records with other interdisciplinary team members to integrate speech language pathology treatment plan.

Instructs the patient and the family in speech language pathology procedures as part of providing patient and family education including written instructions as necessary.

Follows all hospital policy and procedures including but not limited to patient confidentiality and infection control.

Provides discipline specific coverage (following cross‑training) within the Mary Free Bed system as requested.

Adheres to the Mary Free Bed Standards of Behavior when working with patients, coworkers and members of the community.

Supports program operations as assigned.

May perform the following items to meet program or hospital needs.

Participates in orientation and training of new staff.

Serves as clinical instructor for speech language pathology students and supervises CFY as needed. Supervises, teaches and evaluates skills of students. Communicates with participating universities regarding skill level of students.

Meet or exceed clinical outcome collection standards established by department leadership.

Meet or exceed clinical outcome performance/improvement goals established by department leadership in designated programs.

Customer Service Responsibilities

Demonstrate excellent customer service and standards of behaviors as well as encourages, coaches, and monitors the same in team members. Consistently promote teamwork and direct communication with co‑workers and deal discretely and sensitively with confidential information.

Responsibilities in Quality Improvement

participates in departmental efforts to monitor and report customer service.

in Speech Pathology granted by an accredited university program.

Licensure required in every US State and Territory in which the Therapist is practicing or is in Clinical Fellowship Year. SLP‑CCC is required for therapists in the following States per Medicaid billing requirement: Must be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served in assigned department. Must demonstrate knowledge of the principles of growth and development over the life span and possess the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to age‑specific needs and to provide the care needed as described in the department’s policies and procedures.

None to operate or use department specific equipment.

None to ascend/descend equipment or ladder.

Consistent with the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), it is the policy of Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital to provide reasonable accommodation when requested by a qualified applicant or employee with a disability, unless such accommodation would cause an undue hardship. The policy regarding requests for reasonable accommodation applies to all aspects of employment, including the application process. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, genetic information, veteran status, disability or other legally protected characteristic.

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