Speech Pathologist PRN

About the role

Saint Luke's Home Health is seeking a PRN Speech Pathologist to join our North Branch Team! Provides prevention, screening, evaluation, diagnosis, management and counseling services to clients with speech/ language, cognitive-communication and/or oral-pharyngeal sensorimotor impairments. Plans directs and conducts habilitative, rehabilitative and counseling programs to treat impairments involving verbal and written language. Remote – MO, this is a PRN position. Working in Northland or other areas depending on need and working a minimum of 1 shift per week.

Responsibilities

• Evaluates patients after impairment, injury, or disease.
• Creates an individualized patient-centered treatment plan based on evidence‑based practice and selects appropriate interventions based upon evaluation and assessment of the patient.
• Re‑evaluates and provides periodic reassessment of patient progress and contributes to discharge planning.
• May supervise 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.
• 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.
• Uses professional judgment to ensure safety to self, patients, and others at all times.
• Performs all other duties as requested by manager.
• Participates in quality initiatives.
• Meets system and departmental shift requirements.

Requirements

• Less than 1 year of applicable experience.
• Basic Life Support certification – American Heart Association or Red Cross.
• Clinical Competence‑Speech/Lang certification – American Speech‑Language‑Hearing Association.
• Speech Pathology certification – Various.
• Bachelor’s Degree.