Speech Pathologist PRN

Saint Luke's Health System•Kansas City, MO

10d•Onsite

About The Position

Saint Luke’s Hospital is seeking a PRN Speech Pathologist to join our team! This role provides prevention, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, management, and counseling services to clients with speech/language, cognitive-communication, and/or oral-pharyngeal sensorimotor impairments. The position involves planning, directing, and conducting habilitative, rehabilitative, and counseling programs to treat impairments involving verbal and written language.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required
MO Speech Pathology license required
1 year of applicable experience
Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross
Cert Clinical Competence-Speech/Lang - American Speech Language Hearing Association
Speech Pathology - Various
Master's Degree - Speech Pathology

Nice To Haves

Certificate of Clinical Competence designation preferred

Responsibilities

Evaluates patients after impairment, injury, or disease.
Creates an individualized patient-centered treatment plan based on evidenced based practice and selects appropriate interventions based upon evaluation and assessment of patient.
Re-evaluates and provides periodic reassessment of patient progress and contributes to discharge planning.
May supervise treatment provided by students and assistants.
Participates and makes recommendations for client care interventions to the interdisciplinary health care team.
Delegates and instructs supportive personnel in services to be provided.
Provides timely documentation per department and/or entity policy and as required by insurance provider to meet licensing, certification, regulatory, reimbursement requirements, and physician treatment plan.
Uses professional judgment to ensure safety to self, patients, and others at all times.
Performs all other duties as requested by manager.
Participates in quality initiatives.
Meets system and departmental shift requirements.