Speech Language Pathologist Part Time
Speech Language Pathologist Part Time
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Job Description
Position Highlights:
- Location:Lexington North Carolina
- Part Time
Job Summary:
Provides a full range of differential diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients referred by a physician. Performs specialized tests and treatments as well as teaching procedures to the patient family and other health personnel.
What Youll Need:
- Current license in SpeechLanguage Pathology issued by the North Carolina Board of Examiners for Speech and Language Pathologists and Audiologists.
- Certificate of Clinical Competence in SpeechLanguage Pathology issued by the American Speech Language and Hearing Association.
- Candidate must have SLPCCC.
What Youll Do:
- Performs comprehensive professional evaluation of patients of all ages referred for differential diagnosis of communicative or swallowing disorders. Selects and administers evaluation instruments that are appropriate for the patients age developmental level cognitive function and reason for referral.
- Ensures patient and/or family education regarding communication or swallowing deficits and treatment options. Provides counseling to patient and extended family relative to recommendations and treatment options.
- Plans and conducts treatment programs for patients with speech language voice and/or swallowing impairments. Develops individual short term and longterm treatment goals. Implements plans to achieve treatment goals modifying therapy strategies as necessary to maximize progress.
- Provides and participates in inservice education and training of speech pathology interns and fellows medical students/residents and allied medical personnel. Prepares and presents formal lectures to physicians nurses educators and others on communication and/or swallowing disorders. Provides unique training for speech pathology graduate interns who are assigned to the department for clinical practicum training. Participates in inservice education programs to ensure proficiency and skills in current techniques for the evaluation and treatment of patients.
- Continuously seeks to improve patient care services and evaluates opportunities to develop new services. Coordinates and prioritizes the patient caseload to ensure that all patient services are rendered efficiently to minimize delays in diagnosis or therapeutic intervention. Provides patient services in a manner which maximizes efficiency efficacy and quality without need for continuous supervision.
- Evaluates options for augmentative/alternative communication and recommends and/or fits appropriate devices or prostheses to meet patient needs as applicable.
- Ensures that age/developmentally appropriate patient care is provided in accordance with AgeSpecific Care Guidelines for the specific age groups served.
- Ensures the ongoing assessment maintenance and continual improvement of staff competence related to agespecific needs of patients.
- Adequate performance on financial/budget expectations. Meets productivity target consistently each year.
- Adheres to the general hospital standards to promote a cooperative work environment by utilizing communication skills interpersonal relationships and team building.
Employment Type
Part-Time
