Speech-Language Pathologist -Clin-(Temp

What You'll Do

Michigan Medicine Speech-Language Pathology, Children and Women's Hospital

The Speech-Language Pathologist Will

• Evaluate children with speech, language, voice, cognitive-communicative and feeding/swallowing disorders. Design and implement treatment programs to facilitate improved communication and swallowing skills.
• Counsel patients and their families regarding communication and swallowing development, impairment, and opportunities for stimulating improvement.
• Provide documentation of evaluation data, test/re-test data and speech-language progress, in accordance with insurance and regulatory agency requirements.
• Provide assistance to medical and rehabilitation team members regarding methods for facilitating a patient's understanding and use of language to achieve maximum understanding of medical information and rehabilitation techniques.
• Participate in staff meetings regarding individual patients with physicians, nurses, insurance representatives and allied health professionals.
• Maintain departmental and institutional standards of clinical productivity.

• A Master's degree in Speech-Language Pathology.
• Current licensure as a Speech-Language Pathologist in the State of Michigan.
• A Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) awarded by the American Speech Language Hearing Association (ASHA), or eligibility to initiate a Clinical Fellowship.
• This classification requires Primary Source Verification.

• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written.
• Ability to work effectively with medical and allied health professionals within an interdisciplinary team.
• Previous experience with infants and peds feeding and swallowing in the acute care setting.

Positions that are eligible for hybrid or mobile/remote work mode are at the discretion of the hiring department. Work agreements are reviewed annually at a minimum and are subject to change at any time, and for any reason, throughout the course of employment.

Learn more about the work modes.

Part time:
Hours vary between 20 and 30 per week

This job posting is for a University of Michigan Temporary position. Temporary employment may be full or part time, but in either case is limited in duration. Please review the full posting description for details.

Michigan Medicine conducts background screening and pre-employment drug testing on job candidates upon acceptance of a contingent job offer and may use a third party administrator to conduct background screenings. Background screenings are performed in compliance with the Fair Credit Report Act. Pre-employment drug testing applies to all selected candidates, including new or additional faculty and staff appointments, as well as transfers from other U-M campuses.

Job openings are posted for a minimum of seven calendar days. The review and selection process may begin as early as the eighth day after posting. This opening may be removed from posting boards and filled any time after the minimum posting period has ended.

The University of Michigan is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants, including protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.