LOCATION: San Bernardino County (CA)
Enjoy up to a $20,000 sign on bonus with this excellent opportunity to join a compassionate and dedicated team of quality, caring health care professionals that provides a wide range of inpatient and outpatient diagnostic, treatment and rehabilitation services, home health, and hospice services, and a variety of community outreach programs in a 50+ bed acute primary care facility. Enjoy a competitive base salary with comprehensive benefits and lots of career growth opportunities. Individual wages are determined based upon a number of factors including, but not limited to, an individual’s qualifications and experience.
The Speech Therapist & Infant Hearing Screening Specialist evaluates patients regarding the application of a wide variety of therapeutic techniques from rehabilitation of speech, language, hearing, and oral motor disorders.
Primary Duties:
- Maintains established department policies, procedures, objectives, quality improvement, safety, environmental and infection control standards.
- Gathers data related to patient’s communication disorder, selects appropriate evaluation tool(s) for the purpose of assessment, and administers diagnostic testing procedures to determine the extent of the patient’s impairment and the prognosis for improvement.
- Performs evaluations with special attention to receptive and expressive language skills, speech fluency, vocal and oral motor competence, articulation, auditory skills, cognitive linguistic skills and swallowing disorders.
- Develops and maintains long and short-term treatment goals for each patient. Re-evaluates and modifies treatment programs as indicated.
- Maintains active and support communication with the patient regarding progress, problems, home programs and other issues related to the therapeutic process.
- Discusses patient care programs with other specialists, including nurses and physicians. Notifies other specialists of recommendations regarding changing treatment programs or suggesting treatments not originally ordered by the physician.
- Serves as a resource to nursing and other disciplines.
- Prepares written documentation as required by the profession and the department.
- Enhances professional growth and development through participation in educational programs, current literature, workshops and in-service meetings.
- Demonstrates sensitivity and competence in the care of the ill and/or dying adolescent, adult, geriatric and pediatric patients relative to determining each patient’s age related physical, psychological and cultural needs.
QUALIFICATIONS:
- Master’s Degree in speech-language pathology
- Two (2) years of SLP experience
- Licensed as a Speech Pathologist in California
- California driver’s license and continuous insurance required
Preferred Experience/Availability:
- Outpatient experience with preschool population and adults
- Availability to see adult patients in Acute/Skilled Nursing environment
Note: The Hospital complies with federal, state, and/or local laws regarding mandatory vaccination of its workforce. If you are offered this position and must be vaccinated under any applicable law, you will be required to show proof of full vaccination or obtain an approval of a religious or medical exemption prior to your start date. If you receive an exemption from the vaccination requirement, you will be required to submit to regular testing in accordance with the law.
The above statements reflect the general duties considered necessary to describe the principal functions of the job as identified and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the position.
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