Speech Language Pathologist - CCC

Job Summary

Provide rehabilitative services to patients/clients who have reduced communicative or swallow function. Improve functional communication and swallow skills, provide patient/family education and serve as a resource for community services.

Essential Functions

• Delivers quality care: By integrating the elements of examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis and intervention to optimize outcomes and communicative effectiveness.
• Promotes safe and clean working environment: By complying with policies and procedures, rules and regulations governing environment of care and patient safety.
• Determines and/or facilitates discharge/discontinuation of services: By analyzing achievement of anticipated goals and expected outcomes, planning discharge/discontinuation and providing appropriate home instruction, follow‑up or referral.
• Records patient services: By documenting, dating and authenticating speech therapy examination, evaluation, diagnosis, prognosis, intervention and outcomes in accordance with facility and regulatory guidelines, and by billing for specific interventions provided.
• Develops and enhances professional knowledge and skills: By participating in continuing education, reviewing professional publications and providing learning experiences for professional development.
• Contributes to team effort: By embracing change to achieve common goals, demonstrating willingness to provide service at other sites as necessary, investigating opportunities for new lines of services, contributing to the development of peers and promoting a positive work environment.
• Complies with federal, state and local legal and professional requirements: By understanding and adhering to current standards of practice for speech therapy, the code of ethics and practice guidelines established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and by providing appropriate supervision to speech‑therapist assistants and students.
• Develops leadership skills: By assisting with supervision of staff, serving as mentor to other staff, proposing, investigating and implementing new methods or problem solving, assisting with program planning, providing input and information for budget development, and delivering staff performance appraisals.
• Protects patient information and confidentiality: By securing all information in a confidential space and following facility confidentiality policy.
• Educates students and volunteers: By supervising/providing educational experiences, giving verbal and written feedback to students and clinical institutions, and arranging educational events with other staff.

Qualifications

• Education: Master’s Degree in Speech‑Language Pathology, Certificate of Clinical Competence from the American Speech and Hearing Association, and licensure by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) candidates considered as appropriate.
• Work experience: Related experience as a student or practicing clinician preferred.
• Licenses / Certifications: State license to practice speech‑language pathology in Pennsylvania; Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC‑ASHA).