Job Description

Saint Luke's North Hospital is seeking a PRN Plus Speech Pathologist to join our 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.

• 8:00- 4:30 Minimum requirements: two weekend shifts a month (can be a full weekend or split between two weekends). Participates in the holiday and hard to staff rotation

• 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.

• 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

Job Requirements

Applicable Experience:

Less than 1 year

Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Cert Clinical Competence-Speech/Lang - American Speech Language Hearing Association, Speech Pathology - Various

Bachelor's Degree

Job Details

PRN

Day (United States of America)

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