Speech Language Pathologist, Early Intervention Pediatrics - Per Diem
About The Position
Virtua Health is dedicated to serving the community by providing accessible and exceptional care. With over 14,000 colleagues, including 2,850 doctors, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, Virtua Health offers a wide range of services across five hospitals, seven emergency departments, seven urgent care centers, and over 280 other locations. The organization is committed to community well-being through various programs and services, including telehealth, home health, and mobile screenings. Virtua Health is affiliated with Penn Medicine for cancer and neurosciences, and the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia for pediatrics. This specific role is located in Barrington, NJ.
Requirements
- Current licensure in the State of NJ
- CPR certification
- School certification by the NJ Department of Education
Nice To Haves
- Educationally based pediatric experience preferred
- Minimum Bachelor’s degree in occupational therapy from a program accredited by the AOTA.
Responsibilities
- Provides educationally based OT evaluations, treatments and consultations to pediatric clients within the educational environment.
- Provide services in conjunction with the school district’s child study teams and teachers, ensuring that the services delivered are relevant and useful in meeting the student’s individual education plans (IEP).
- Demonstrates comprehensive evaluation skills and interventions. This includes evaluating the effectiveness of interventions and modification of plan of care as appropriate.
- Therapist will meet IEP mandates per student.
- Maintains and completes all student documentation, records and reports ensuring they are educationally based, timely, thorough and professional. All documentation must be in accordance with regulatory and department guidelines.
- Consults with student’s child study team, teacher, family, paraprofessionals, district and non-district therapists, CST staff, contract coordinator, supervisors and offsite director to provide optimum quality patient care and effective operations.
- Attend and participate in required meetings including school team meetings, student IEP meetings, required CST meetings and any other required meeting.
- Will be flexible and adjust schedule to accommodate without negative impact to student treatment time/schedule.
Benefits
- medical/prescription
- dental and vision insurance
- health and dependent care flexible spending accounts
- 403(b) (401(k) subject to collective bargaining agreement)
- paid time off
- paid sick leave as provided under state and local paid sick leave laws
- short-term disability
- optional long-term disability
- colleague and dependent life insurance
- supplemental life and AD&D insurance
- tuition assistance
- employee assistance program that includes free counseling sessions
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Part-time
Career Level
Entry Level
