Speech Pathologist

@ SLS Saint Luke's South Hospital, Inc.
SLS Saint Luke's South Hospital, Inc.slssaintluke'ssouthhospital,inc..com

Speech Pathologist

Overland Park, KS
Posted 2 days ago

About the job

Saint Luke's South Hospital provides healthcare services, seeking a Speech Pathologist to evaluate, treat, and support patients with communication impairments, supervising staff and participating in care planning and quality initiatives.

Requirements

  • 2 years of relevant experience
  • Basic Life Support certification
  • Clinical Competence in Speech/Lang
  • Bachelor's Degree

Qualifications

  • American Heart Association BLS
  • ASHA certification
  • Experience with patient evaluation
  • Supervisory skills preferred

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Job Description​

Saint Luke's South Hospital is seeking a full-time 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.

  • Full-time: Monday - Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. Some weekends required.

  • 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.  

  • Supervises 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  

Job Requirements

Applicable Experience:

2 years

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

Full Time

Day (United States of America)

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