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Clinical Specialist Speech Pathologist Outpatient Therapy
Full Time 80 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 direction plans evaluates and implements treatment programs for speech therapy patients. While maintaining a patient load assumes additional responsibility of program development staff training and orientation and consultation in area of expertise for fellow staff members.
Responsibilities
- Advanced clinical practice including evaluation and specialized treatment of patients.
- 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 resource person for staff and senior staff on an ongoing basis.
- Provides 8 hours education/mentorship time per year. This includes:
- Peer counseling /Mentorship
- Community lectures/Volunteer
- Orientation of new staff in area of specialty
- Inservices/Case Studies
- Lunch and Learns
- Development implementation and evaluation of standards of care and evidence based practice:
- Evidence base practice protocols
- Clinical outcomes analysis and communication to team
- New policy development
- QI/QA
- 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 targets for:
- Quality/outcome measures
- Service/patient satisfaction measures
- Financial/productivity measures
- Growth/patientsperday measures
- Demonstrates leadership including but not limited to:
- Development and implementation of new and current programs.
- Participates in training orientation and supervision of support staff.
- Participates in orientation of new licensed staff in area of specialty
- Acts as Clinical Instructor for at least one student per year as available.
- Participates in peer evaluations for competency assessment.
- Assists with continuing education courses hosted by Covenant Health.
- Complete partnering activities per established targets per month.
- Physician office visits
- Community lectures/volunteer
- Case Manager visits/marketing
- Provide 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
Four (4) years of experience with a minimum of three (3) years in specialty area. Professional organization membership preferred
Licensure Requirement
Must have and maintain Tennessee State Speech Pathology Licensure with achievement of at least one (1) of the following at time of hire or placement in the position:
- Advanced degree in specialty area
- Advanced degree associated with specialty area
- Professionally recognized certification in specialty area
- 100 hours (10 CEUs) of continued education
Employment Type
Full-Time
