Speech Pathologist Per Diem - EntireCare Speech

Responsibilities

• Provides appropriate supervision to supportive personnel (Techs, students) while assuming responsibility for care of patient.
• Attends and actively participates in patient team conferences and family conferences.
• Determines needs for follow up outpatient therapy and makes post-discharge recommendations.
• Documents within EMR and charting accurately reflects a logical flow between data collected, action taken, and patients response to the action.
• Plans specific measures to meet assessed learning needs and documents in patient record.
• Recognizes and addresses patient, family, and appropriate others in the learning needs of the individual.
• Presents information clearly and in a manner appropriate to the level of patient and family understanding.
• Implements the treatment plan and evaluates and records the patient responses to the treatment sessions.
• Participates in the development of individual discharge plans that are responsive to patient/family concerns.
• Able to revise/update plan based on assessment.
• Acts as a resource person to peers within the rehabilitation department, fielding questions, mentoring, or providing educational opportunities.
• Acts as a resource person to other departments and community, fielding questions, mentoring, or providing educational opportunities.
• Reviews patient's history and appropriate data prior to initiating evaluation.
• Evaluate and treat patients without a physician order or referral as established by Board of Medical Directors Rule.
• Assists patients and families in planning for discharge.
• Responsible for reporting any safety-related incident in a timely fashion through the Midas/RDE tool; attends all safety-related training programs; performs work in a safe manner; monitors work environment for possible safety issues and ensures others are also performing work in a safe manner.
• Maintains timely and accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, EMR entries, and patient responses; completes charges in a timely manner and according to proper procedures.
• Meets productivity goals according to departmental standards.
• Attends 75% of department monthly meetings in a 12-month period; responsible for 100% of the meeting content from minutes.
• Responds to new orders promptly in compliance with department policy.

Qualifications

• Master's degree- Required
• Current license in the state of Arizona- Required
• BLS (American Heart Association) - Required upon date of hire.
• Fingerprint Clearance Card application number- Required upon hire
• Fingerprint Clearance Card- Required within 90 days of hire
• Employee will obtain and maintain appropriate clinical competencies for the roles assigned by their departmental leader.