Speech Language Pathologi

To provide direct patient care and support activities which build and maintain the outstanding outcomes of the therapy department.

Provides treatment program to maximize speech, language, cognitive, and swallowing abilities within each patient’s structural or functional limitation; including, but not limited to: evaluates and treats each patients, communicates with families, physician and other interdisciplinary team members, documents services in the medical records.

Contributes to professional development and self and others.

Enhances interdisciplinary team through professional skills and knowledge.

Demonstrates safe working practices.

Provides patients treatments, which meets patient needs, and uses current treatment knowledge in accordance with facility clinical procedures. This includes but is not limited to:

Performing accurate, comprehensive evaluations.

Developing effective plan of treatment and obtaining appropriate approvals from referring physician.

Utilizing appropriate evaluation tools and completing accurate evaluations.

Communicating with supervisor and other health team members regarding patient progress, problems, and plans,

Instructing patients’ families or nursing staff in specified follow through programs.

Interviewing patients ‘and families regarding previous level of functioning and lifestyle and current and future expectations.

Demonstrating knowledge of appropriate resources for problem-solving and clinical best practice.

Evaluating patient within facility-specific time frame.

Supervising Clinical Fellow and other SLPs in direct patient care and patient related activities.

Writes accurate, complete, and clear documentation in accordance with regulatory, licensing, payer, and accrediting requirements. This includes but not limited to:

Recording Resident Needs Reviews, evaluation, daily treatment notes, progress notes, and discharge summaries in accordance with facility procedures.

Recording treatment charges and insuring that documentation is consistent with billing data,

Writing specific, objectives documentation, which is outcome oriented and details the patient’s needs, potential to benefit from treatment, and profess achieved to date. Includes specific, objective measurable goals.

Managing Medicare Medical Review and Denial process in conjunction with Director of Rehabilitation, the facility ream

Acquiring and documenting consents/approvals for treatment when necessary.

Consistently demonstrates facility’s interdisciplinary approach to patient care. This includes but not limited to:

Integrating findings of other members of the interdisciplinary team in treatment assessment and recommendations.

Integrating input from patient and family in treatment assessment and recommendations.

Preparing for and providing meaningful contributions to the rehab team conferences, patients care conferences, utilization review meetings., family conferences, and caregiver training sessions.

Collaborating with and informing facility staff in areas of patient progress.

Educating members of the team in areas of expertise.

Working with facility to teach documentation practices, which assist the therapy team.

Communicating effectively with discharge planners.

Contributes to professional development of self and others This includes but is not limited:

Utilizing continuing education assistance to achieve targeted quality improvements.

Interacting with peer therapist at local acute hospital and other environments, if appropriate.

Presenting effectively at weekly rehab team conferences, facility in-services, and professional conferences.

Maintaining current body knowledge in areas of clinical expertise through seminars, professional, journals, and peers.

Meeting continuing education requirements of regulatory agencies.

Aid in Building and maintaining a positive facility culture as a professional member of the staff. This includes but is not limited to:

Consistently demonstrating positive core values in interacting with co-workers, patients, and families, with all other persons involved with the patient’s care, and the general public.

Consistently demonstrating professional standards.

Contributing to a positive work team by sharing information, using problem-solving methods, and accepting new ideas, criticism, or advice from others.

Demonstrating superior customers service through courtesy, consistent follow-up, and positive communication.

Identify and correcting safety hazard or notifying the facility or the Director of Rehabilitation so that safety hazards will be immediately remedied.

Maintaining work areas in safe and orderly fashion.

Maintaining equipment in safe working order.

Using proper body mechanics during treatment of patient and during support activities.

Using universal safety precautions.

Wearing appropriate safety equipment (i.e., gloves when in contact with the patient’s mouth).

Speech-language Pathologist Certificate of Clinical Competence.

Current CPR Certification, if required.

California Speech-Language Pathology license or license candidate under state’s regulations.