Speech Language Pathologist
About The Position
The Center at Waterfront is seeking a PRN Speech Language Pathologist to organize and provide speech-language services that facilitate rehabilitation. The role directs patient participation in selected tasks to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance, and supports learning skills and functions essential for communication and swallowing. The Speech Language Pathologist promotes health within the scope of practice and in accordance with the profession’s Code of Ethics. The position screens, examines, and evaluates patients; develops diagnoses and individualized plans of care; delivers and documents treatment; and evaluates progress. Services may address cognitive communication, speech intelligibility, oral motor skills, swallowing disorders, perceptual abilities, orientation, memory, pragmatics, psychosocial expression, and functional communication. The role also coordinates adaptive communication devices and makes referrals when additional assessment or services are needed.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Speech-Language Pathology, Communication Disorders, or a similar area acceptable to the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association.
- Must be licensed, certified, or credentialed as required in the State of Kansas.
- Excellent communication and customer service skills.
- Ability to work well within a team and provide clear instructions to employees.
- Must pass a pre-employment background check and drug test.
Responsibilities
- Deliver rehabilitation services effectively and efficiently, following the plan of care and schedules and completing documentation on time.
- Attend and contribute to patient-care and staffing conferences and other related meetings.
- Refer patients to other disciplines and agencies to address their comprehensive needs.
- Consult with rehabilitation team members to select therapeutic regimens appropriate to each patient’s needs and capabilities.
- Adapt programs and plans of care to individual patient needs.
- Promote a safe environment and help eliminate fire and safety hazards.
- Order supplies and equipment as necessary; clean and maintain equipment and identify and report repair needs.
- Prioritize patient service and provide residents and families with caring, compassionate service that recognizes individual needs and rights.
- Screen, examine, and evaluate patients, including taking histories, conducting systems reviews, and applying appropriate tests and measures.
- Interpret examination findings to establish diagnoses, identify impairments and precautions or contraindications, estimate improvement and time to achieve it, and design a plan of care.
- Develop treatment goals and methods in collaboration with patients and caregivers.
- Implement speech-language pathology treatment plans and complete related documentation and record keeping.
- Provide therapeutic interventions for areas including cognitive communication, speech intelligibility, oral motor skills, swallowing disorders or dysphagia, perceptual abilities, orientation, memory, pragmatics, psychosocial expression, and functional communication.
- Coordinate acquisition of adaptive communication devices and instruct patients in their use.
- Facilitate identification of hearing deficits and refer appropriately for assessment, diagnosis, rehabilitation, or personal amplification.
- Select therapeutic activities suited to the individual’s physical and mental capacity, intelligence level, and interests.
- Instruct patients in skills and techniques for participating in therapeutic activities and evaluate their progress, attitudes, and behaviors related to rehabilitation potential.
- Reexamine patients as needed or required to modify or progress treatment plans.
- Perform other related duties as required.
