Speech Pathologist II-Part Time

About the role

The Speech Pathologist will provide prevention, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, management and counseling services to clients with speech/language, cognitive-communication and/or oral-pharyngeal sensorimotor impairments. They will plan, direct, and conduct habilitative, rehabilitative and counseling programs to treat impairments involving verbal and written language.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates patients after impairment, injury, or disease.
• Creates an individualized patient-centered treatment plan based on evidenced-based practice and selects appropriate interventions based upon evaluation and assessment of patient.
• Re-evaluates and provides periodic reassessment of patient progress and contributes to discharge planning.
• Supervises treatment provided by students and assistants.
• Participates and makes recommendations for client care interventions to the interdisciplinary health care team.
• Delegates and instructs supportive personnel in services to be provided.
• Uses professional judgment to ensure safety to self, patients, and others at all times.
• Performs all other duties as requested by manager.
• Provides timely documentation per department and/or entity policy and as required by insurance provider to meet licensing, certification, regulatory, reimbursement requirements, and physician treatment plan.
• Completes at minimum a department level project.

Requirements

• Kansas licensure required.

Qualifications

• Applicable Experience: 2 years Speech Language Pathologist (KS) - Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services
• Bachelor's Degree