SLP Clinical Facilitator, Externship
About The Position
The SLP Clinical Facilitator - Externship is a state licensed and ASHA-certified speech language pathologist who educates, mentors and supervises students performing client evaluations, screenings, and treatment to patients (adult and pediatric) attending the USAHS MS-SLP micro-externship experiences. Clinical Facilitators for Externship review and collaborate on the design and implementation of clinical micro-externship experiences and assess the clinical performance and documentation skills of students in these micro-experiences. Clinical Facilitators for Externship are required to attend any essential training opportunities offered by the program.
Requirements
- State licensed and ASHA-certified speech language pathologist
- Entry-level master’s degree or higher
- Appropriate state license and ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence
- At least 2 years of hands-on experience in a patient care setting in the profession
- Completion of the ASHA requirement for supervision of graduate interns
- Excellent oral communication and organizational skills
- Responsive to adult student needs
- Able to work collaboratively in a team environment
Responsibilities
- Prepares the physical clinical environment to ensure both students and clients are ready for sessions.
- Organizes and maintains micro-externship program model; contributes to the review and development of micro-externship experiences as applicable.
- Teaches and models clinical communication, professionalism, and collaboration.
- Interacts frequently with students to provide direction, guidance, and feedback.
- Assists with administration, scoring, written reporting of screeners and assessments, as well as therapy sessions.
- Communicates with students and families on screening, assessment and treatment activities.
- Monitors student performance and progress with clinical skills development; provides feedback; and facilitates student participation in learning activities.
- Assesses student performance on assessment, intervention, interaction and personal qualities.
- Supervises, assesses, and provides feedback to students regarding proper protocols for clinical documentation.
- Reports student grades at end of micro-externship experience / term to the MS-SLP program.
- Communicates with MS-SLP faculty to ensure consistent content delivery, student concerns, and to recommend changes for upcoming semesters.
- Participates in meetings with the MS-SLP program.
- Serves as student-to-university liaison.
- Upholds student and part-time faculty handbook policies.
- Promotes professionalism by modeling such behaviors.
- Self-evaluates clinical supervision performance; sets goals for improvement in collaboration with program leadership and faculty.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Number of Employees
101-250 employees
