Speech-Language Pathologist (SLP)

About the role

Care for others—and yourself—in a therapy career designed for work-life balance! As a Home Health SLP for Interim HealthCare®, you’ll play a vital role in a patient’s restoration while enjoying the freedom and flexibility that comes from ordering your own schedule.

Responsibilities

• Assist the physician or other licensed independent practitioner in evaluating the patient’s level of communication deficit, hearing and swallowing function, as well as in developing the resulting plan of care/treatment including appropriate long term treatment goals, selection of interventions, and the intensity, frequency and duration of services to meet the needs of an individual patient.
• Completes initial and ongoing comprehensive assessments at appropriate time points as assigned.
• Selects and teaches task-oriented therapeutic activities designed to improve comprehension and production of language in oral, signed or written modalities; speech and voice production; auditory training; speech reading; and communication strategies using multi-modal training (e.g. visual, auditory-visual, and tactile).
• Regularly assess changes in the patient’s status since the last visit/treatment day, and determine whether the planned services should be modified, performing a re-evaluation and obtaining revision orders from the physician as indicated.
• Prepares and submits timely, legible, relevant and sufficient documentation - whether written or electronic - of treatment and skilled intervention provided, as well appropriate reports of a patient’s progress toward goals in accordance with professional standards of practice, policy and procedures, and payor requirements.
• Advises and consults with the family and/or other caregivers to promote patient progress and planning for discharge.
• Participates in educating the patient and the family, and other caregivers to promote patient progress toward mutually established goals.
• Actively effectively communicates with other members of the interdisciplinary healthcare team providing care in order to promote coordination of patient care and planning for discharge.
• Visually and auditorily observes and assesses the patient.
• Participates in quality and performance improvement measures.
• Participates in in-service training, as requested.
• Completes other assignments as requested and assigned.

Requirements

• Master’s or doctoral degree in speech language pathology, and who meets either of the following requirements:
• licensed as a speech-language pathologist by the State in which the individual furnishes such services;
• Has successfully completed 350 clock hours of supervised clinical practicum (or is in the process of accumulating such supervised clinical experience);
• In the case of an individual who furnishes services in a State which does not license speech-language pathologists: Has successfully completed an approved national examination in speech-language pathology.
• Performed not less than 9 months of supervised full-time speech-language pathology services after obtaining a master’s or doctoral degree in speech-language pathology or a related field;
• Successfully completed an approved national examination in speech-language pathology.
• In the last five (5) years, two (2) years of experience as a speech language pathologist that is relevant to the patient population assigned.

Qualifications

• Able to read and interpret technical instructions related to the care of the patient.
• Able to provide proof of current CPR certification, per organization-specific policy.
• Able to prioritize multiple functions or tasks to effectively manage multiple changes based on patient needs and scheduling.
• Able to spend varying amounts of time sitting, standing and walking.
• Able to stand, walk, bend, stoop, squat, kneel and reach freely.
• Able to lift, reposition, and transfer patients.
• Sufficient endurance to perform the required physical and mental tasks over long periods of time.
• Able to constantly grasp with thumb in opposition to fingers of palm, i.e. manipulate pen, knobs or objects.
• Visual acuity, dexterity and hearing to perform required skills.
• Able to work flexible schedule and/or evening hours as needed.
• Able to travel locally from assignment to assignment, if applicable.

Benefits

• $38.00 - $80.00
• 1:1 therapist-to-patient ratios where you impact outcomes
• Flexible assignments, autonomy and work-life balance
• Online training, growth and ability to earn CEUs