Speech Language Pathologist
About The Position
The Speech Language Pathologist is a clinician at Mercy Gilbert Medical Center who assesses, diagnoses, and treats communication and swallowing disorders to improve patients’ quality of life. The role includes conducting comprehensive evaluations of referred patients and implementing individualized treatment plans. The clinician contributes expertise to the development and improvement of treatment programs and protocols and helps shape departmental and organizational goals. The position requires thorough medical-record review and the use of appropriate standardized and non-standardized assessment methods, taking cultural and linguistic factors into account. The clinician determines severity and prognosis, sets measurable short- and long-term goals focused on functional outcomes, and adjusts plans as a patient’s medical condition, needs, progress, and risk factors change. Care is coordinated with the interdisciplinary team, with referrals to other services as appropriate. Intervention strategies are evidence-based and adapted to age, culture, and linguistic factors; the role also applies learning, behavioral, and pragmatic tools and procedures. Mercy Gilbert Medical Center is a 198-bed nonprofit facility serving Gilbert, Arizona, and surrounding communities. The organization describes its workplace as collaborative and supportive, with an emphasis on compassionate care, health equity, social justice, innovation, teamwork, and continuous learning.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology from an accredited program.
- Licensed by the Arizona State Board as a Speech Language Pathologist.
- American Heart Association Basic Life Support certificate.
- Advanced clinical knowledge and strong diagnostic and therapeutic skills.
- Compassionate, patient-centered approach.
Responsibilities
- Conduct comprehensive evaluations for referred patients, including thorough records review and administration of appropriate standardized and non-standardized assessment methods.
- Account for cultural and linguistic factors and identify accurate severity levels.
- Weigh prognostic factors, including developmental and acquired brain injury factors, to formulate a prognosis.
- Set measurable short- and long-term goals focused on functional outcomes.
- Modify treatment plans based on changes in medical condition, needs, progress, and risk factors.
- Coordinate care plans with the interdisciplinary team and make appropriate referrals to other services.
- Select evidence-based intervention strategies that account for age, culture, and linguistic factors, and revise interventions as appropriate.
- Apply learning, behavioral, and pragmatic tools and procedures.
- Share expertise and knowledge as a resource.
- Contribute clinical expertise to the development and improvement of treatment programs and protocols and to departmental and organizational goals.
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Job Type
Full-time
