Speech Pathologist - On Call

Career Opportunities with Matrix Providers

Matrix Providers is hiring a Speech Pathologist to join our team of talented professionals who provide health care services to our veterans and their families at Travis Air Force Base in Fairfield, CA.

Status: Part time (On-call as required by clinic)

Schedule: The contractor will be expected to be on call approximately 60 days out of every calendar year, responsible to cover the current civilian speech-language pathologist when she is on approved civilian leave. When on call, the on-call speech pathologist will be expected to respond with a treatment plan communicated to the consulting team(s) within 24 hours of receipt of consultation.

The on-call speech pathologist will be on-call only Monday - Friday during the duty day and not expected to cover weekends. The contractor will not work holidays, or down days as the current civilian speech-language pathologist does not cover these days.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Degree: Master's degree in speech pathology or communication disorders.
• Education: Graduate from a college or university that includes at least 18 semester hours in the field of speech pathology by a regional accreditation organization and a speech pathology academic program accredited by the Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech-Language Pathology (CAA) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA).
• Certification: Maintain current certification of Clinical Competency in speech-language pathology (CCC-SLP) from ASHA.
• Experience: As required to meet clinical competency requirements as specified in the service-specific credentialing instruction.
• Licensure: Current, full, active, and unrestricted license to practice as a speech pathologist as required in the TO.

Core Duties:

• Develop coherent treatment strategies.
• Incorporate new clinical procedures sufficient to perform clinical services independently.
• Conduct patient assessments; provide treatment interventions and consultation to other health care professionals.
• Use instrumentation (e.g., videofluoroscopy, nasendoscopy, stroboscopy, computer technology) to observe, collect data, and measure parameters of communication and swallowing, or other upper aero-digestive functions in accordance with the principles of evidence-based practice.
• Provide prevention, screening, consultation, assessment and diagnostic, treatment, intervention, management, counseling, and follow-up services for disorders of speech and language, including comprehension and expression in oral, written, graphic, and manual modalities.