Speech & Language Pathologist - Contingent

Trinity Health•Chelsea, MI

41d•Onsite

About The Position

The Rehabilitation Services Staff Speech-Language Pathologist provides evaluation and treatment of hospital patients in a range of specialty programs. This role involves maintaining good rapport and cooperative relationships, ensuring confidentiality of patient and hospital information, and staying knowledgeable to perform job duties safely. The position requires self-directed learning, adherence to the Mission, Vision, and Values of Trinity Health, and providing quality patient care considering age-specific, developmental, and cultural needs. The Speech-Language Pathologist will identify and assist in resolving safety, sanitation, and maintenance issues, practice effective communication, and promote a positive work environment through teamwork. Competency in individualized patient assessment, thorough speech therapy evaluation, and creation of appropriate care plans are essential. The role includes formulating individualized, age-specific therapy goals, implementing patient care consistent with goals and patient needs, and orienting patients and families to therapeutic purposes and procedures. Educating patients and families about home programs, impairments, and progress is also a key responsibility. The position requires providing for professional growth and education, contributing to staff development, staying updated on insurance guidelines, and completing thorough, timely documentation and daily charges while adhering to ethical practices. Collaboration with management to ensure schedules are managed for targeted productivity and clinic budget is expected.

Requirements

Master’s Degree or higher in Speech-Language Pathology from an accredited program
Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Licensed in the State of Michigan
CPR Certification

Responsibilities

Maintains good rapport and cooperative relationships.
Maintains the confidentiality of information acquired pertaining to patient, physicians, employees, and visitors.
Maintains knowledge to perform the duties of the job.
Assumes responsibility for performance of job duties in the safest possible manner.
Demonstrates self-directed learning.
Behaves in accordance with the Mission, Vision and Values of Trinity Health.
Provides quality patient care by considering the age specific, development and cultural needs through competent clinical practice.
Demonstrates unit/area competencies.
Identifies and assists in resolution of problems related to safety, sanitation and maintenance of the environment.
Practices effective communication in all interactions.
Promotes a positive work environment by demonstrating teamwork.
Demonstrates competency with individualized assessment of patients using a wide variety of assessment measures and procedures.
Provides a thorough speech therapy evaluation and creates an appropriate plan of care based on the patient deficits.
Formulates individualized, age specific, therapy goals based upon assessment results and patient needs.
Implements patient care in a manner consistent with the therapy goals and the changing needs of the patient using a variety of therapeutic approaches.
Orients patients and families to the therapeutic purposes and procedures of Speech-Language Pathology, and educates them about home programs, impairments and progress.
Provides for own professional growth and education and contributes to staff development activities.
Stays up to date on all participating insurance guidelines for rehabilitation services.
Provides thorough documentation on each patient interaction. Documentation must be timely and include all pertinent information required by state law, accrediting agencies and 3rd party payers.
Completes daily charges for each patient while adhering to ethical practices per insurance guidelines for each payer.
Works with Manager, director and/or front desk staff to ensure schedules are managed well to achieve targeted productivity and clinic budget.
Performs other duties as assigned.