Pediatric Speech Therapist - St. Rita's Medical Center Outpatient

Pediatric Speech Therapist - St. Rita's Medical Center Outpatient

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The Speech Language Pathologist works to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, language, social communication, cognitive‑communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults. They perform patient evaluations, re‑evaluations, and develop treatment and discharge plans based on patient history, signs, symptoms, and evaluative tests or tools. The Speech Language Pathologist establishes patient treatment plans based upon physician referrals.

• Review physician referral, patient condition, and medical history to determine speech and language therapy treatment needs.
• Perform and document patient evaluation and re‑evaluation, and develop treatment and discharge plans based on patient history, signs and symptoms, and evaluative tests/tools.
• Plan and administer medically prescribed speech‑language pathology treatments to patients.
• Plan rehabilitative treatment programs based on physician prescription and evaluation data to treat disorders of verbal written language, voice articulation, fluency, interactive communication, mastication, deglutition, auditory and/or visual processing, and memory and cognition/communication.
• Instruct and/or train patient and family/caregiver in treatment procedures for home use.
• Modify treatment goals and plan of care as appropriate and communicate with other health team members. Participate in patient care conferences as appropriate.
• Instruct, motivate, and assist patient and family to perform various speech activities.
• Responsibly manage patient cases including communication and coordination of care with the treatment team.
• Precept in the direction and evaluation of clinical experience/internship of students from participating colleges or universities.
• Orient, instruct, and direct the work activities of Clinical Fellowship Year aides, students, and volunteers as per policies and procedures.
• Attend and participate in scheduled meetings and in‑services, providing in‑services to department staff to share specialization of knowledge and continuing education.

This document is not an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, skills, duties, requirements, or working conditions associated with the job. Employees may be required to perform other job‑related duties as required by their supervisor, subject to reasonable accommodation.

• Licensed as a Speech Language Pathologist in the state of current practice (required).
• Certificate of Clinical Competence Speech‑Language Pathology (CCC‑SLP) (preferred at hire, required within one year).
• BLS Basic Life Support (preferred upon hire, required within 30 days for BSMH, required at hire for RSFH).

2 years of experience in an equivalent setting (preferred).

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Demonstrates the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care appropriate to the age of the patients served. Demonstrates knowledge of the principles of growth and development across the lifespan and possesses the ability to assess data reflective of the patient’s status and interpret the appropriate information needed to identify each patient’s requirements relative to their age, specific needs, and to provide the needed care as described in departmental policies and procedures.

Patient population includes neonates (0–4 weeks), infants (1–12 months), pediatrics (1–12 years), adolescents (13–17 years), adults (18–64 years), and geriatrics (65+ years).
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Periods of high stress and fluctuating workloads may occur.
Limited travel required (not to exceed…