Outpatient Speech Language Pathologist, Home Health

About the role

BAYADA Home Health Care is seeking an experienced Speech Language Pathologist for a full-time opportunity performing outpatient home health visits from the Williston, Vermont office. This office serves adult and geriatric patients in homes throughout Addison, Washington, or Franklin County. Prior home care experience is a plus but not required. As a home care Speech Language Pathologist, you will be an integral member of a multidisciplinary health care team providing rehabilitative care and skilled nursing to clients, enabling them to receive medical care while remaining at home.

Responsibilities

• Make home visits to clients in designated geographic territories.
• Perform thorough evaluations to assess, diagnose, and provide therapeutic interventions for clients experiencing speech, language, communication, or swallowing difficulties.
• Develop a treatment plan based on the evaluation, physician’s orders, and recommended goals.
• Continually assess and revise the speech therapy care plan, and participate with BAYADA clinicians in the multidisciplinary care plan as appropriate.
• Educate and instruct patients, family members, or other representatives in rehabilitative care and activities necessary to promote health, safety, and independent living.
• Accurately document observations, interventions, and evaluations using a state-of-the-art touch pad tablet.

Qualifications

• A current license as a Speech Language Pathologist in Vermont.
• Possess a certificate of clinical competence in speech from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, or;
• Have the equivalent educational requirements and work experience necessary for such a certificate and be awaiting the opportunity to take the ASHA certification examination, or;
• Have completed the necessary work and education requirements and be in the process of accumulating the required supervised work experience for certification.
• Solid computer skills; prior experience with electronic medical records (EMR) preferred.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, health, dental, and vision.
• Training and scholarship opportunities to develop skills.
• Career advancement with specially designed career tracks.
• Recognition and rewards for compassion, excellence, and reliability.