Speech/Language Pathologist Rehabilitation Honolulu - On-Call Day Shift

Provides and ensures speech-language pathology evaluation and treatment services. Collaborates with physicians, hospital, SNF, clinic, outreach, home care, and other agency staff, as well as families, to facilitate communication of health management. Specializes in identifying and assessing patients in need of cognitive, communication, and swallowing therapy. Counsels patients and caregivers, teaching skills to families and staff. Acts as patient advocate and coordinator, functioning as a liaison between communicatively impaired individuals and the care-giving system.

Responsibilities

• Provides evaluation, diagnosis, and care plan development related to cognitive, communication, and swallowing disorders.
• Delivers direct or indirect communication and swallowing therapeutic and counseling intervention in hospital, SNF, and clinic settings.
• Coordinates referrals for speech-language pathology follow-up with contract and community services.
• Provides backup coverage during other speech-language pathology staff absence.
• Offers continuing formal and informal education for professional staff.
• Coordinates, develops, and facilitates group treatment, education, and related materials for clients and caregivers.
• Develops and maintains reports and data with outcome results pertaining to caseload management, quality assurance, and peer review issues.
• Collaborates with other personnel to identify goals and objectives for discharge planning needs.
• Participates in stroke rounds, SNF patient care rounds, and other patient care meetings where caseload is involved.
• Participates in peer review and QA studies and meetings as delegated by supervisor.
• Develops and teaches in-service programs for professionals in cognitive, communication, and swallowing disorders and health promotion.
• Participates in orientation of new staff and student interns; available for on-site observation by students.
• Demonstrates knowledge and appropriate application of CPT-4 codes for all services provided; keeps abreast of coding modifications and/or definitions.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Speech/Language Pathology from an American Speech/Language/Hearing Association Educational Standards Board accredited program.
• Successful completion of Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) under supervision of a licensed speech/language pathologist.
• Clinical Competence Certificate in Audiology or Speech-Language Pathology required at hire.
• Speech Language Pathologist License (Hawaii) required at hire.
• Basic Life Support certification from the American Heart Association required at hire.
• National Provider Identifier required at hire.
• Taxonomy code required at time of hire/transfer.
• Strong diagnostic, evaluation, counseling, and case management skills working with interdisciplinary teams.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and skill in oral communication, written communication, interpersonal relations, and customer service.

Schedule

• Shift: Day
• Workdays: Sun, Mon, Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat
• Working Hours Start: 08:00 AM
• Working Hours End: 05:00 PM
• Job Schedule: Call-in/On-Call

Pay

$123,822.40 - $136,204.64 / year

Benefits

Kaiser Permanente strives to offer a market competitive total rewards package and is committed to pay equity and transparency.