SPEECH THERAPIST, Per Diem

Sierra Medical Center is part of Northern Nevada Health System, a regional multi-facility system that has excelled at offering quality care to residents of the greater Truckee Meadows. Sierra Medical Center is a 170-bed acute care hospital offering services including 24/7 ER care, cardiology, oncology, labor and delivery, level II NICU, surgical and orthopedic services, and much more.

What We Value

• Compassion: We treat everyone with kindness and warmth because we genuinely care about every patient, employee and physician like they are family.
• Empathy: We put ourselves in our patient’s shoes and deliver clinical care with a personalized touch.
• Teamwork: We foster a caring and friendly work environment to bring the best possible outcomes in our patient’s lives.
• Quality: We strive to provide excellence in clinical care.
• Ethics: We conduct our business with the highest ethical and moral standards.
• Respect: We promise to honor the dignity, individuality and rights of everyone.
• Service Excellence: We provide personalized and professional service that exceeds the expectations of those we serve.
• Innovation: We continually invest in technology and process improvements to develop new and better ways of delivering clinical care.

Responsibilities

• Administer and directly apply speech/language pathology treatment modalities as prescribed by a referring physician.
• Evaluate, plan, direct, and treat all patients referred to speech/language pathology to restore function and prevent disability following disease or injury.
• Assist patients to obtain maximum performance and function in society while learning to live a routine “normal” life within the constraints of their disability.
• Participate in performance improvement activities within the department and in Continuous Quality Improvement (CQI) activities.
• Ensure personal competency in speech/language pathology practices.
• Provide information related to departmental budget considerations for optimum patient care and service.
• Assist in scheduling patient visits for speech pathology evaluation and treatment.
• Perform administrative duties as delegated by the director of rehabilitation services.
• Participate in infection control, safety, and educational programs both within the department and organization-wide.
• Upon physician referral, perform patient evaluations to determine problems and goals.
• Assess patient pain interfering with optimal function or participation in rehabilitation and make appropriate physician contact for intervention.
• Perform all aspects of patient care in an environment that optimizes patient safety and reduces the likelihood of medical/healthcare errors.
• Formulate a teaching plan based on identified learning needs and evaluate the effectiveness of learning; include family in teaching as appropriate.

Qualifications

• Master’s degree from an approved college or school of speech/language pathology.
• Current State Licensure in Speech Pathology (as Speech Pathologist).
• Current BLS certification.

Benefits

For full and part-time employees:

• Challenging and rewarding work environment
• Competitive compensation and generous paid time off
• Excellent medical, dental, vision, and prescription drug plans
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan
• Tuition reimbursement/repayment program
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ subsidiaries

More information is available on the Benefits Guest Website.