Outpatient Pediatric Feeding SLP - Part Time

Yale New Haven Health • Greenwich, CT

14d • Onsite

About The Position

This part-time role involves diagnosing, evaluating, and treating patients with a wide variety of communication and swallowing disorders. The position requires providing appropriate care based on patient age, adhering to the scope and standards of practice. Employees are expected to uphold the YNHHS Vision, Mission, and Values of integrity, patient-centeredness, respect, accountability, and compassion.

Requirements

• Master's degree in speech-language pathology.
• One (1) to two (2) years as a clinical speech language pathologist in a large medical center based practice preferred.
• Experience working with children and/or adults depending on the assigned setting.
• Clinical experience with a variety of diagnoses to include post-surgical, developmental, neurological, genetic, oncologic and traumatic.
• Certificate of Clinical Competence in speech-language pathology (CCC-SLP) from the American Speech, Language, Hearing Association (includes nine months of supervised internship and a qualifying national examination).
• CT license.
• Continuing educational units.
• Computer literacy.
• Excellent communication (aural/oral/writing) skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience working with children and/or adults depending on the assigned setting.
• Clinical experience with a variety of diagnoses to include post-surgical, developmental, neurological, genetic, oncologic and traumatic.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates patient's communication or swallowing function within the scope and standards of practice, keeping service excellence as a main priority.
• Establishes and conducts a treatment program and keeps timely documentation that is in line with departmental, hospital and regulatory standards.
• Communicates evaluation results and progress in therapy.
• Participates in departmental and hospital performance improvement activities.
• Provides care appropriate to the age of the patients served, demonstrating knowledge of growth and development principles and the ability to assess patient status.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Mid Level