Acute Speech Language Pathologist

Beth Israel Lahey Health•Boston, MA

8d•$42 - $59•Onsite

About The Position

When you join the growing BILH team, you're not just taking a job, you’re making a difference in people’s lives. Job Summary: Autonomously responsible for providing evaluation and treatment services for patients referred with speech, language, voice, cognitive-linguistic and/or swallowing disorders. Services are provided on an inpatient and outpatient basis. Additional responsibilities of an SLP II include independence in practice across multiple diagnostic groups and provision of clinical instruction to graduate students. This position is a part of our acute care inpatient team. There are minimum availability requirements for our per diem staff. These include: Cover minimum of two weekends per quarter Cover 1 major holiday (New Year’s Day, Memorial Day, July 4, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas) on a rotating basis Have availability for 1-2 shifts for coverage during the weeks surrounding Thanksgiving and/or Christmas. Come in for a minimum of two weekday shifts over the summer (June, July, August)

Requirements

Master's degree in Communication Disorders or Speech-Language Pathology required.
License Speech Language Pathologist Li required.
Certificate 1 Cert of Clin Competence - SLP required.
Certificate 2 Basic Life Support required.
1-3 years related work experience required.
The Cert of Clin Competence - SLP needs to be verified through www.Asha.org.
Candidates who have submitted a complete and accepted application for licensure, and out of state licensed speech-language pathologists are expected to obtain Massachusetts license prior to their start date.
Advanced skills with Microsoft applications which may include Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint or Access and other web-based applications.
May produce complex documents, perform analysis and maintain databases.

Nice To Haves

Previous experience in an acute care setting, including experience with patients on ventilators and/or with tracheotomy tubes.
Previous experience in an outpatient voice clinic, including experience with trans-nasal endoscopy

Responsibilities

Evaluate patients
Determine appropriateness of referral, etiology & extent of the communication, swallowing or voice disorder
Examination may include use of videofluoroscopic oropharyngeal swallowing evaluation, FEES, &/or videostroboscopic voice evaluation.
Remain up to date with current evidenced based practice standards
Meet requirements for annual continuing education.
Interpret evaluation results and makes appropriate recommendations for management and treatment.
Develop appropriate goals and therapeutic program.
Identify diagnosis, prognosis & discuss plan of care in collaboration with patient, family, supports and medical team as appropriate.
Act as a clinical resource to new staff or students in one content area.
Provide therapy, implementing the plan of care using therapeutic procedures, equipment / devices, teaching interventions, with ongoing collaboration and referral to additional health care providers to achieve patient's goals and to optimize function.
Re-evaluate patient status, review & modify the plan of care, as needed.
Manage a defined caseload and perform all administrative responsibilities including but not limited to: data collection and record keeping e.g. billing, face-time sheets, quality assurance / improvement activities, participation on all hospital and departmental committees as requested, and attendance at department meetings, in-services, journal club & case conference as required.
Perform all teaching responsibilities including but not limited to: teaching patients and families, residents, nurses & other hospital staff; Providing clinical instruction to graduate students; Orienting support staff; Preparing and presenting clinical in-services, and providing interdepartmental & external in-service educational lectures.