Speech Therapist

CareOne Group•Hanover Township, NJ

4d•$41 - $63•Remote

About The Position

CareOne is hiring a Speech Therapist for full-time, part-time, and per diem opportunities across multiple shifts in Whippany, NJ. The Speech Therapist is responsible for greeting customers in a friendly and welcoming manner, ensuring a safe and secure environment, and contributing to the department's effectiveness. This role involves assuming responsibility for a patient caseload, demonstrating clinical expertise with specific diagnoses including speech/language disorders and dysphagia. The Speech Therapist will provide assessment, treatment, and intervention for patients with speech, voice, language communication, swallowing, and related disabilities. Services include consultation and counseling to patients, families, caregivers, and other service providers, as well as supporting the use of augmentative and alternative communication devices. Treatment outcomes will be evaluated to assess effectiveness, and services will be modified accordingly. Patient records will be maintained according to Agency policy.

Requirements

Current Speech Therapist Certification in the state of operations
3+ years experience in Home Health, Acute Care setting or Rehabilitation Facility

Responsibilities

Greets customers in a friendly and welcoming manner. Creates a positive first impression. Smiles, projects a positive attitude.
Through the continuous improvement of standards of practice and by providing a safe and secure environment the customer will be assured a sense of safety and well-being, free from risk and harm.
Contributes to the effectiveness of the department/unit by remaining within the acceptable standard of the Agency's Attendance/Tardiness Control Policy.
Assumes responsibility for a patient caseload, demonstrating clinical expertise with specific diagnosis which include speech/language disorders. (Phonology, morphology, syntax, etc.) and dysphagia (oral, pharyngeal, esophageal and myofunctional disorders.)
Speech therapy includes providing assessment, treatment and intervention to patients with speech, voice, language communication, swallowing and related disabilities.
Provides consultation and counseling to patients, as well as families, caregivers and other service providers related to the speech disorders.
Provision of services that support the effective use of augmentative and alternative communication devices and other communication prostheses and assistive devices.
Evaluate treatment outcomes to assess effectiveness. Services are modified in relation to their evaluations. Referrals are made in relation to their outcomes.
Documents plan of care and all services provided. Maintains patient records according to Agency policy.