Speech Language Pathologist

Harmony Pediatric Therapy

Speech Therapist

(CCC Required)

Chatham AND Basking Ridge NJ

Part Time or Per Diem

no SLPCFY pediatric experience

Availability: Mornings Afternoons and Evenings

At Harmony Pediatric Therapy we believe every child is full of endless potential and we help foster that potential so he or she may achieve success in all facets of life. Our goal is to enhance childrens participation in family community and school activities based on his or her age and stage of development. Concurrently we also aim to fulfill parents longterm goals for their children. Our highly skilled speech therapists will work closely with families to establish a treatment plan that will help children with physical emotional and social development to reach his or her maximum potential. We use innovative techniques and stateoftheart equipment in a fun and welcoming environment to help children develop the foundational skills essential in achieving longterm happiness and success.

Position Summary

Performs comprehensive evaluations develops and appropriately progresses individualized treatment plans provides thorough education to patients and caregivers in a manner they can understand and plans appropriately for discharge when medical necessity no longer indicates skilled therapeutic care. Participates in departmental initiatives and demonstrates effective communication with all rehab team members to facilitate professional growth and development and overall improvement of clinical performance. Performs other professional duties associated with the care of the client development of discipline specific therapy services and design of program delivery.

Our experienced speech therapists focus on the following areas:

• Oral motor skills: which focuses on the strength coordination and control of the movements in the mouth jaw tongue lips and cheek muscles for eating and speaking.
• Expressive language development: which is important to successful communication skills such as requesting protesting social interaction labeling and describing sharing feelings and providing information.
• Receptive language development: to build active listening skills sustained attention ability to follow directions vocabulary and concept development and an overall understanding of spoken language.
• Executive dysfunction: which strongly relates to language and learning difficulties. Executive function development helps the child with time management impulse control selfregulation and critical thinking skills such as problem solving organization planning sequencing selfmonitoring and mental flexibility.
• Social skill development: which teaches the unwritten rules for language usage in different situations and with different people including skills like repairing conversational breakdowns reading nonverbal language relationship building socioemotional awareness and selfadvocacy.
• Selfhelp: to develop tools and help maintain positive behaviors in all environments (e.g. instead of hitting others or acting out using positive ways to deal with anger. For instance a child could ask an adult for help or use an alternative means of expression like writing about feelings).

• Minimum Education & Experience (Included Licenses)

  1. Bachelors Degree in Speech Therapy required
  2. Current and valid NJ state licensure SpeechLanguage Pathologist required
  3. Current Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC) in Speech Language Pathology from the American SpeechLanguage & Hearing Association
  4. Previous Pediatric experience preferred

Select Medical is committed to having a workforce that reflects diversity at all levels and is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment and employees are treated during employment without regard to race color religion national origin citizenship age sex sexual orientation gender identity marital status ancestry physical or mental disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected under applicable law.