About this role
Job Description
Saint Luke’s Hospital is seeking a PRN 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.
- PRN: hour day shifts for weekday and weekend shifts. Typically 8:00 am – 4:30 pm. Minimum requirement is 4 total shifts per 8 week scheduling block with 2 of those being weekend shifts, 1 weekday, and the remaining shift either weekend or weekday. Also required to work on or around major holiday (Thanksgiving, Christmas/New Year) and on or around 1 minor (Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day.)
- 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.
- May supervise 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
- Meets system and departmental shift requirements
- Bachelor’s degree required
- MO Speech Pathology license required
- Certificate of Clinical Competence designation preferred
Job Requirements
Applicable Experience:
1 year
Basic Life Support - American Heart Association or Red Cross, Cert Clinical Competence-Speech/Lang - American Speech Language Hearing Association, Speech Pathology - Various
Master's Degree - Speech Pathology
# Job Details
PRN
Day (United States of America)