SLP Clinical Facilitator, Externship

GENERAL SUMMARY

The mission of the University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences is the development of professional health care practitioners through innovation, individualized, and quality classroom, clinical, and distance education.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Prepares the physical clinical environment to ensure both students and clients are ready for sessions.
• Organizes and maintains micro-externship program model; contributes to the review and development of micro-externship experiences as applicable.
• Teaches and models clinical communication, professionalism, and collaboration.
• Interacts frequently with students to provide direction, guidance, and feedback.
• Affords assistance with administration, scoring, written reporting of screeners and assessments, as well as therapy sessions.
• Communicates with students and families on screening, assessment and treatment activities.
• Maintains monitoring of student performance and progress with clinical skills development; provides feedback; and facilitates student participation in learning activities.
• Assesses student performance on assessment, intervention, interaction and personal qualities.
• Supervises, assesses, and provides feedback to students regarding proper protocols for clinical documentation.
• Reports student grades at end of micro-externship experience / term to the MS-SLP program.
• Communicates with MS-SLP faculty to ensure consistent content delivery, student concerns, and to recommend changes for upcoming semesters.
• Participates in meetings with the MS-SLP program.
• Serves as student-to-university liaison.
• Upholds student and part-time faculty handbook policies.
• Promotes professionalism by modeling such behaviors.
• Self-evaluates clinical supervision performance; sets goals for improvement in collaboration with program leadership and faculty.

OTHER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

May perform other duties and responsibilities that management may deem necessary from time to time.