Provide rehabilitative services to patients/clients who have reduced communicative or swallow function. Improve functional communication and swallow skills, provide patient/family education and serve as a resource for community services.
Delivers quality care by integrating the elements of examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and intervention to optimize outcomes.
Optimizes communicative effectiveness.
Promotes a safe and clean working environment by complying with policies and procedures, rules and regulations governing environment of care and patient safety.
Determines and/or facilitates discharge/discontinuation of services by analyzing achievement of anticipated goals and expected outcomes, planning discharge/discontinuation and providing appropriate home instruction, follow-up or referral.
Records patient services by documenting, dating and authenticating speech therapy examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention and outcomes in accordance with facility and regulatory guidelines.
Bills for specific interventions provided.
Develops and enhances professional knowledge and skills by participating in continuing education, reviewing professional publications and providing learning experiences for professional development.
Contributes to team effort by embracing change to achieve common goals, demonstrating willingness to provide service at other sites as necessary, investigating opportunities for new lines of services, contributing to the development of peers and promoting a positive work environment.
Complies with federal, state and local legal and professional requirements by understanding and adhering to current standards of practice for speech therapy, guide for professional conduct including the code of ethics and practice guidelines established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Provides appropriate supervision to speech therapist assistants and students.
Develops leadership skills by assisting with supervision of staff, serving as mentor to other staff, proposing, investigating and implementing new methods or problem solving, assisting with program planning, providing input and information for budget development, providing input to and/or delivering staff performance appraisals.
Protects patient information and confidentiality by securing all information in confidential space, following facility confidentiality policy.
Educates students and volunteers by supervising/providing educational experiences, providing instruction with verbal and written feedback to students and clinical institutions and arranging educational events with other staff.
Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology.
Certificate of Clinical Competence from American Speech and Hearing Association.
Licensed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Related experience as a student or practicing clinician preferred.