Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) – Home Health (Part-time)
About The Position
The Home Health Speech Language Pathologist provides skilled, compassionate care to patients in their homes, helping them recover, manage chronic conditions, and live safely and independently. The role uses clinical expertise and coordinated care to prevent hospitalizations, empower patients and families, and improve long-term outcomes. The SLP assists a physician or other licensed independent practitioner in evaluating communication deficits, hearing, and swallowing function, and in developing individualized plans of care. The position includes conducting assessments and reassessments, providing therapeutic activities and communication training, documenting treatment and progress, consulting with families and caregivers, and coordinating care with the interdisciplinary healthcare team. This is a part-time opportunity in Columbia, South Carolina.
Requirements
- Master’s or doctoral degree in Speech Language Pathology.
- Licensed as a Speech Language Pathologist in South Carolina or two years of relevant SLP experience within the last five years.
Responsibilities
- Assist the physician or other licensed independent practitioner in evaluating communication deficits, hearing, and swallowing function and developing the plan of care, treatment goals, interventions, and service intensity, frequency, and duration.
- Complete initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments at appropriate assigned time points.
- Select and teach task-oriented therapeutic activities to improve language comprehension and production, speech and voice production, auditory training, speech reading, and communication strategies using multimodal training.
- Assess changes in the patient’s status since the prior visit or treatment and determine whether planned services should be modified; perform reevaluations and obtain revised physician orders as indicated.
- Prepare and submit timely, legible, relevant, and sufficient written or electronic documentation of treatment and skilled interventions, along with reports on patient progress toward goals.
- Advise and consult with family members and other caregivers to promote patient progress and discharge planning.
- Educate patients, families, and other caregivers to support progress toward mutually established goals.
- Communicate effectively with other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team to coordinate patient care and discharge planning.
- Visually and auditorily observe and assess patients.
Benefits
- Competitive pay-per-visit compensation starting at $65 per visit.
- Mileage reimbursement.
- Flexible scheduling.
- Dedicated one-to-one patient care.
- 401(k) with employer match.
- Free continuing education units (CEUs).
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Job Type
Part-time
