Skilled Home Health Speech Therapist
Skilled Home Health Speech Therapist
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13-04-2025
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Job Description
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Competitive salary
- Dental insurance
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Opportunity for advancement
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Virginia Home Care Services Inc. is a leading provider of home healthcare services committed to delivering compassionate and personalized care to individuals in the comfort of their own homes. We specialize in offering a comprehensive range of medical and nonmedical services to clients across Northern Virginia areas. Our team is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for our clients and their families by providing professional and reliable care tailored to their unique needs.
Position Overview:
Home health Speech Therapists or Speech Language Pathologists provide oneonone care to patients in their homes to help them with communication language difficulties swallowing problems and cognitive disorders. You will be working independently but collaborate with other members of the patients care team such as RN Physical Therapist and other member of our Skilled team. You will be responsible for creating treatment plans that are specific to a patients immediate needs. Your work will focus on helping your patients complete daily tasks like eating performing basic household tasks that involve communicating with family members and using the phone. Its all done with the ultimate goal of helping clients achieve independence.
Duties:
Position Overview:
Home health Speech Therapists or Speech Language Pathologists provide oneonone care to patients in their homes to help them with communication language difficulties swallowing problems and cognitive disorders. You will be working independently but collaborate with other members of the patients care team such as RN Physical Therapist and other member of our Skilled team. You will be responsible for creating treatment plans that are specific to a patients immediate needs. Your work will focus on helping your patients complete daily tasks like eating performing basic household tasks that involve communicating with family members and using the phone. Its all done with the ultimate goal of helping clients achieve independence.
Duties:
- Conducting oral pharyngeal and motor breathing exercises
- Helping patients communicate both verbally and nonverbally
- Educating family members
- Conducting structured memory and problemsolving tasks
A typical day for a home care speech pathologist may include helping a nonverbal stroke survivor get familiar with texttospeech technology assessing a patients swallowing by trialing liquids of different consistenciesand teaching a patients husband how to puree foods properly so she can safely eat
Qualifications:
Qualifications:
- Education: Have a masters or doctoral degree in speechlanguage pathology
- License: Have an active speechlanguage pathologist (SLP) license in Virginia
- Experience: Have at least two years of speech therapy experience ideally in home healthcare
- Certifications: Have a certificate of clinical competence in speech from the American Speech and Hearing Association or have equivalent educational requirements
- Knowledge: Be knowledgeable of state and federal home health regulations
- Other skills: Have good clinical judgment and be able to communicate effectively with patients families and other healthcare providers
Additional Benefits:
- 8 Paid Holidays
- Competitive Mileage Reimbursement
- Generous Paid Time Off
How to Apply:
If you are passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of patients and their families through quality homebased rehabilitation services and meet the qualifications outlined above we encourage you to apply or email us at Please include SLP Home Health in the subject line of your email. We look forward to hearing from you!
EEO: It is the policy of Virginia Home Care Services INC not to discriminate against any applicant for employment or any employee because of age color sex disability national origin race religion or veteran status. Any violation of the policy should be immediately reported to your supervisor or the company EEO Officer.
If you are passionate about making a positive difference in the lives of patients and their families through quality homebased rehabilitation services and meet the qualifications outlined above we encourage you to apply or email us at Please include SLP Home Health in the subject line of your email. We look forward to hearing from you!
EEO: It is the policy of Virginia Home Care Services INC not to discriminate against any applicant for employment or any employee because of age color sex disability national origin race religion or veteran status. Any violation of the policy should be immediately reported to your supervisor or the company EEO Officer.
Compensation: $90.00 $130.00 per day
Professional caregivers go by many names: homemakers home care aides home health aides certified nursing assistants personal care assistants direct care workers. No matter the name what they all have in common is a calling to care for people in the comfort of their own homes.
This agency is independently owned and operated. Your application will go directly to the agency and all hiring decisions will be made by the management of this agency. All inquiries about employment at this agency should be made directly to the agency location and not to Home Care Evolution Corporate.
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