Speech Pathologist

About the Organization

University of Utah Health is a patient-focused organization dedicated to enhancing health and well-being through patient care, research, and education. As a Level 1 Trauma Center, we are nationally ranked for academic research, quality standards, and overall patient experience. Our five hospitals and eleven clinics provide excellence in comprehensive services, medical advancement, and patient outcomes.

We seek staff committed to values of compassion, collaboration, innovation, responsibility, integrity, quality, and trust that are integral to our mission.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates patients' abilities and limitations.
• Establishes treatment goals based on evaluation, referral reason, and team interaction.
• Administers therapy according to the established plan, utilizing appropriate procedures, equipment, and techniques within the scope of Speech Pathology practice.
• Educates patients and caregivers about program goals, methods of accomplishing goals, home program performance, and injury prevention.
• Recommends adaptive equipment and completes equipment justification forms.
• Re-evaluates patients, assesses progress, and makes discharge recommendations.
• Consults and co-treats with therapists from other disciplines.
• Provides documentation of patient care according to established criteria.
• Participates in continuous quality improvement projects.
• Supervises patient care activities of aides, assistants, attendants, and volunteers.
• Participates in in-services, medical conferences, staff meetings, continuing education courses, team meetings, and related activities.
• Assists with departmental maintenance and supplies.
• Provides in-services for staff, other departments, and the community.
• May administer dye to patients undergoing swallow studies.

Requirements

• Current licensure to practice as a Speech Pathologist in the State of Utah.
• Current RQI Healthcare Provider eCredential through the University of Utah Health RQI system (to be obtained within 30 days of hire).
• Ability to provide evaluation and/or treatment for speech, language, swallowing, and/or cognitive disorders and develop and implement treatment plans.
• Ability to provide work direction to aides, volunteers, and students; identify program needs; develop new areas of activity; and respond to emergency situations.
• Knowledge of the principles of life span growth and development.
• Ability to assess data regarding patient status and provide care as described in department policies and procedures.
• Demonstrated human relations and effective communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in dysphagia, stroke, head trauma, diffuse brain pathology, neurologic diseases and disorders, developmental language delay, dysfluency, voice pathology, motor speech disorders, and cognitive disorders.

Working Conditions and Physical Demands

This is a sedentary position in an office setting that may exert up to 10 pounds and may involve lifting, carrying, pushing, pulling, or otherwise moving objects. The role primarily involves sitting and is not exposed to adverse environmental conditions.

• Physical requirements include carrying, color determination, far vision, lifting, listening, manual dexterity, near vision, pulling and/or pushing, reaching, sitting, speaking, standing, stooping and crouching, and walking.