About the position
Discover Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Located in Nashville, Tennessee, and operating at a global crossroads of teaching, discovery, and patient care, VUMC is a community of individuals who come to work each day with the simple aim of changing the world. It is a place where your expertise will be valued, your knowledge expanded, and your abilities challenged. Vanderbilt Health is committed to an environment where everyone has the chance to thrive and where your uniqueness is sought and celebrated. It is a place where employees know they are part of something that is bigger than themselves, take exceptional pride in their work and never settle for what was good enough yesterday. Vanderbilt's mission is to advance health and wellness through preeminent programs in patient care, education, and research.
Responsibilities
- Evaluates and treats patients with speech, language, voice, cognition, fluency, auditory (re)habilitation, and swallowing/oral feeding disorders.
- Educates and counsels patients and families.
- Provides independent therapeutic services and identifies area(s) of clinical specialization and competency.
- Supervises graduate students as assigned in clinical specialty area.
- Participates actively in identifying and conducting quality improvement activities.
- Collaborates with clinical practice team to achieve patient outcomes and system objectives.
- Provides comprehensive evaluation and treatment of adult patients with swallowing, speech, language, cognitive-communication, and voice disorders across multiple ICUs and step-down floors.
- Completes Video-fluoroscopic Swallow Studies (VFSS)/MBSS and Flexible Endoscopic Evaluation of Swallowing (FEES) to assess dysphagia and aid in treatment planning.
- Documents patient progress and outcomes in accordance with hospital and regulatory standards.
- Participates in clinical education and mentorship of graduate students and clinical fellows.
Requirements
- Master's Degree in Speech-Language Pathology from an accredited program.
- Completion of Clinical Fellowship (CF).
- Current Tennessee (TN) SLP Licensure or eligibility.
- ASHA Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC-SLP) is required.
