Rehab PRN Therapist-SLP

General Summary

The Speech Language Pathologist is responsible for identifying patient care needs and priorities for care through evaluation, assessment, planning, providing treatment and/or delegating care for patients with speech, language, cognitive swallowing, or voice disorders. This process focuses on patient/family needs and assessing the patient’s response to care and progress toward outcomes.

Principal Job Functions

• Commits to the mission, vision, beliefs and consistently demonstrates our core values.
• Performs and documents an initial patient evaluation and assesses the data to identify problems.
• Establishes, documents, and provides a plan of care with SMART (specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, timely) goals based on evaluation of the examination data and patient needs.
• Provides or delegates and supervises speech language pathology patient interventions in a safe, predictable manner consistent with the established evaluation and the plan of care.
• Provides and documents patient/family education regarding current condition and plan of care, including home program/discharge instructions.
• Performs and documents patient re-examination, re-evaluates the data, modifies and documents the plan of care.
• Communicates relevant patient care information to other health care professionals.
• Participates in personal and professional development by attending and/or presenting inservices (required, voluntary), department staff meetings, seminars, community education programs, and seeking ongoing developmental and educational opportunities.
• Maintains clinical competencies per department guidelines. Uses quality improvement processes, programs or outcomes to help improve department operations.

Required Knowledge, Skills And Abilities

• Knowledge of the theory and practice of speech language therapy.
• Knowledge of statistics and research design sufficient to understand and interpret the professional literature.
• Knowledge of computer hardware equipment and software applications relevant to work functions.
• Ability to apply team concepts and take initiative while working cooperatively with coworkers.
• Ability to clinically supervise, appropriately delegate responsibility and maintain required State and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) required supervision criteria for PT/OT Technicians, support staff and students in the provision of speech language therapy activities.
• Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment related to changing patient needs and patient volumes including working with patients with acute, subacute, chronic and complex disease processes and those who are dying.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with all levels of personnel, medical staff, volunteer and ancillary departments.
• Ability to proficiently and effectively evaluate, assess and treat a variety of patient population groups including pediatric, adolescent, adult and geriatric age groups.
• Ability to treat and work with patients of diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.
• Ability to prioritize work demands and work with minimal supervision.
• Ability to practice proper body mechanics to ensure personal and customer/patient safety.
• Ability to react appropriately and perform work under stressful and in emergency situations.
• Ability to maintain regular and punctual attendance.

Education And Experience

• Graduation from a Council of Academic Accreditation for Audiology and Speech Pathology Master’s degree level program of Speech Language Pathology required.
• Current licensure or eligibility for licensure in Nebraska required.
• Current Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) from American Speech and Hearing Association (ASHA) or plan for clinical fellowship completion required.