Speech Pathologist, Fitchburg Campus, 40 Hours, Days
About The Position
The Speech Pathologist evaluates children and adults for communication and swallowing disorders, selects and administers appropriate diagnostic assessments, interprets results, and communicates findings to physicians. The position provides individual and group rehabilitation using clinical techniques suited to each disorder and develops interventions to improve patients’ function in daily living activities. The Speech Pathologist may recommend, design, and implement augmentative communication methods and devices with patients, families, and others. The role also provides information about disorders, establishes home programs to reinforce therapy, maintains clinical records and reports, and coordinates with physicians, other professionals, schools, social service agencies, and others involved in a patient’s care. The position participates in quality improvement and follows departmental, health, and safety policies. Work is indoors in a normal office and patient-care environment and is considered medium physical work.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in Speech Pathology.
- Current Massachusetts Speech Pathology license.
- Membership in the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
- Certificate of Clinical Competence; attainment typically takes one year.
- Effective verbal and written communication skills and demonstrated clinical knowledge.
- Excellent customer service skills and ability to work cooperatively with members of the healthcare team.
Responsibilities
- Conduct diagnostic evaluations of communication disorders in children and adults, including language, articulation, auditory processing, voice, fluency, and neurological disorders.
- Assess relevant oral and vocal mechanisms, breathing patterns, vocabulary, language, articulation, voice, fluency, auditory processing, and written-language parameters.
- Analyze patient data, interpret test results, and communicate findings to physicians.
- Provide individual and group remedial treatment for communication and swallowing disorders using appropriate clinical techniques.
- Analyze patient needs and develop treatment interventions to maximize function in daily living activities.
- Recommend, design, and implement augmentative communication methods, including communication boards and mechanical devices, in collaboration with patients, families, and others.
- Provide information about communication disorders to patients, families, and others.
- Design home programs and other activities to support or reinforce therapy.
- Maintain clinical records and reports, including diagnostic evaluations, treatment notes, physician renewals, progress reports, and treatment summaries.
- Coordinate with physicians, related professionals, school personnel, social service agencies, and others involved in the patient’s program.
- Comply with departmental policies, procedures, objectives, and health and safety requirements.
- Attend required or directed meetings, conferences, and seminars.
- Apply quality improvement practices in daily operations.
- Maintain regular, reliable, and predictable attendance and perform other similar duties as required.
Benefits
- A signing bonus may be available; eligibility will be confirmed during the interview process.
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Job Type
Full-time
