Speech Pathologist Per Diem Flagstaff

Responsibilities

• Care Management: 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.
• Documentation: 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.
• Patient Care: Reviews patient's history and appropriate data prior to initiating evaluation. Evaluates and treats patients without a physician order or referral as established by Board of Medical Directors Rule. Assists patients and families in planning for discharge.
• Education: 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.
• Patient Care: 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.
• Compliance/Safety: 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.
• Productivity: 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. Maintains timely and accurate documentation of assessments, interventions, EMR entries, and patient responses; completes charges in a timely manner and according to proper procedures.

Qualifications

• Education: Master's degree- Required
• Certification & Licensures: 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
• Experience: Minimum one (1) year experience in area of specialty- Preferred
• Competencies: Employee will obtain and maintain appropriate clinical competencies for the roles assigned by their departmental leader.