Contingent Home Health Speech Therapist

Trinity Health•Muskegon, MI

2d•Remote

About The Position

As a Home Health Speech Therapist, you’ll provide in-home skilled professional speech and audiology diagnostic and therapeutic services to the agency’s clients as authorized by their physician and in compliance with the state’s professional practice act for speech pathologists, any applicable licensure/certification requirements.

Requirements

Meets the educational and experience requirements for a Certificate of Clinical Competence in Speech Pathology granted by the American Speech and Hearing Association; or, meets the educational requirements for certification and is in the process of accumulating the supervised experience required for certificate.
Registration or license to practice as a speech pathologist in the state of practice if applicable.
Must accept responsibility for maintaining clinical practice skills, learning and adhering to agency’s policies and procedures on an on-going basis.
Must be able to function in a practice environment with minimal direct supervision, accepting personal responsibility for maintaining a professional relationship with the agency’s clients and their families.
Must have current Driver’s license and reliable transportation to and from work site.

Responsibilities

Effectively and efficiently prioritizes visit content and plans visits based on client capabilities, conditions, preferences (when possible), physician orders and available resources.
Maintains a working knowledge of applicable Federal, State and local laws and regulations, the Organizational Integrity Program, Code of Ethics, as well as agency policies and procedures and adheres in a manner that reflects honest, ethical and professional behavior.
Accurately assesses clients at admission, at required time points, utilizing appropriate standardized documentation. Assesses the client’s condition for speech therapy or audiology services.
Develops appropriate assessment-based plan of treatment with physician and client. Plan includes attainable episode goals and agency services needed to improve and/or stabilize client’s medical condition and promote independence. Participates in timely revision of the plan of treatment as appropriate.
Makes appropriate referrals for evaluation/care to other disciplines and services, and coordinates care with others to ensure effective and efficient care is provided.
Accurately documents observations, evaluations and interventions pertaining to client care management and services in accordance with agency policy and procedure utilizing the point of care information system. This will include assessments, orders, visit reports, medication information, treatments, coordination of services, client progress or lack of progress toward goals, and contacts with physicians and agency and community providers as appropriate.
Takes appropriate steps to assure timely submission of client data to the office for inclusion in the client record (by timely electronic transmission of data, or when appropriate by fax or mail).
Works with scheduling to assure visits and client care coverage are scheduled in accordance with the plan of care and plans ahead for PTO or other time off.
Ability to consistently demonstrate commitment to the mission and Organizational Code of Ethics and adhere to the Compliance Program.
The duties and responsibilities described are not a comprehensive list and additional tasks may be assigned from time to time, as the scope of the job may change as necessitated by business demands.