PRN Speech Therapist

About the role

Evaluates and treats patients requiring speech-language-swallowing therapy. Minimum Qualifications: Current or temporary Speech-Language Pathologist licensure in the state where services will be provided.

Core duties and responsibilities

• Provides coordinated and comprehensive patient care including assessment, expected outcomes, rehabilitation interventions and evaluation with an interdisciplinary team approach.
• Evaluates speech, language, swallowing, and cognitive-linguistic needs and develops and implements the treatment programs for assigned patients to provide coordinated and comprehensive patient care including assessment, expected outcomes, and rehabilitation interventions within an interdisciplinary team approach.
• Determines/revises priorities for direct/indirect patient care activities based on patient need and available resources.
• Documents all treatments, according to department policies and procedures, as monitored by supervision, by documentation review, and consultation with referring Provider.
• Performs evaluation of patient response to tasks performed and delegated.
• Participates in the Performance Improvement program of the Rehabilitation Services department with emphasis on speech therapy, to assure the delivery of appropriate, timely, and cost-effective services.
• May supervise assigned graduate assistants/interns, students and volunteers.
• Schedules students to participate in evaluation and treatment of patients conducted in the clinical setting.
• Approves graduate student lesson plans, reports, documentation in hospital EMR, or appropriate written communication for assigned patients.
• Provides feedback to students during supervised sessions. Discusses techniques, goals, and materials to be used in therapy sessions. Provides written evaluation of student performance at the end of the semester.

Physical requirements

• Heavy/Hard work: Work requires strength and/or stamina, lifting, moving, stooping, reaching, standing, walking, and carrying of materials and equipment weighing 40+lbs.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

Working environment

• Exposure to communicable diseases, body fluids and different types of cleaning and laundry chemicals.