Speech Pathologist
Speech Pathologist
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Overview
Speech Pathologist Outpatient Therapy
Part Time 48 Hours per pay period Day shift
Covenant Health Therapy Centers Overview:
Covenant Health Therapy Centers consist of 12 outpatient therapy clinics in East Tennessee. The West Knoxville clinic is located on the Fort Sanders West campus. Covenant Health Therapy Centers provide exceptional speech therapy services including: auditory comprehension memory skills reading comprehension oralmotor integrity voice skills swallowing cognitivecommunicative status verbal expression speech characteristics written expression augmentative/alternative communication.
Covenant Health Therapy Centers are a member ofCovenant Health a locallyowned nonprofit health system based in Knoxville TN with a patientfocused culture. It has been recognized byForbes Magazine as a BestinStateEmployerfor Tennessee. The CEO of our company Jim VanderSteeg attends every new employee orientation and will ask you to sign our pledge of excellence to always put patients first strive for excellence in everything we do and make Covenant Health the first and best choice for patients in our region.
Position Summary:
Under general supervision plans evaluates and implements treatment programs for speech therapy patients. Modifies treatment plans in accordance with patient progress.
Responsibilities
- Performs patient evaluations (initial progress and discharge evaluations) establishes treatment plans makes recommendations and sets goals in accordance with patient needs and evidence based practice.
- Involves patient and family in treatment education and goal setting. Coordinates with other medical personnel regarding patients progress needs and discharge planning.
- Demonstrates knowledge and competency including providing for agespecific needs of the population served.
- Serves as a resource person for support staff and other health system staff.
- Assists with training orientation and supervision of support staff.
- Assumes responsibility for the educational development of assigned students.
- Maintains and updates patient documentation in accordance with professional departmental organizational and payer guidelines and timeframes. Maintains established targets for compliance with chart audits.
- Meets established target for quality/outcome measures service/patient satisfaction measures financial/productivity measures and growth/patientsperday measures.
- Demonstrates leadership by including but not limited to supervising support staff.
- Completes partnering activities per established targets per month for physician office visits community lectures/volunteering Case Manager visits/marketing and providing inservices.
- Follows policies procedures and safety standards. Completes required education assignments annually. Works toward achieving goals and objectives and participates in quality improvement initiatives as requested.
- Performs other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Minimum Education:
None specified; however must be sufficient to meet the standards for achievement of the below indicated license and/or certification as required by the issuing authority.
Minimum Experience:
None
Licensure Requirement:
Must have and maintain Tennessee State Speech Pathology License or provisional license as a Speech Pathologist Clinical Fellow. CPR required.
Employment Type
Part-Time
