Speech Language Pathologist (SLP), FT

Speech & Language Pathologist (SLP)

About the role

The Speech & Language Pathologist (SLP) at Gunnison Valley Health will provide compassionate and high-quality patient care in a specialty clinic setting, ensuring the well-being and comfort of patients while supporting the clinic's mission and goals.

Requirements

• Education: Master’s Degree from an approved program of Speech/Language Pathology.
• Experience: Minimum 2 years experience clinical training with a variety of client populations.
• Licenses/Certification: Must hold a valid Certificate of Clinical Competence outlined by ASHA. Maintenance of CPR or BLSS.

Responsibilities

• Designing individualized treatment programs appropriate to achieving short and long-term goals, in collaboration with the patient or the patient’s caregiver.
• Demonstrating awareness of the patient’s status by making program changes in response to changes in the patient or his environment.
• Performing adult and geriatric dysphagia evaluations appropriately according to the ASHA practice standards.
• Documenting prognosis including predicted optimal level of improvement in function. Short-term goals are clear, measurable, functional, and time specific. Long-term goals are clear, measurable, functional, and time specific.

Benefits

• Compensation: $39.25/hr - $58.88/hr, depending on experience.
• Physical Requirements: Occasionally (0-33%), Frequently (34 – 66%), Continuously (37 -100%).
• Shift: Day, 30 hours weekly, flexible scheduling, opportunity to increase to 40 hours weekly when volumes support.
• Status: FT.

Pay

$39.25/hr - $58.88/hr, depending on experience.

Schedule

Day, 30 hours weekly, flexible scheduling, opportunity to increase to 40 hours weekly when volumes support.