CCC - Speech Therapist

Position Summary:

We are searching for a flexible, resourceful speech therapist to join our team. The speech therapist's responsibilities include performing patient assessments, developing individual treatment plans, liaising with teachers, family members, and other healthcare professionals, administering therapy and monitoring progress, and ensuring patients and their families are informed of new treatments and therapy techniques. This is a multi-setting position that includes treatment of Outpatients, Skilled Nursing, and Inpatient/Sub-acute Rehab patients. Treatment is rendered on the Portola and Loyalton campuses.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Develop and implement individualized therapy programs designed to restore, reinforce, and enhance performance
• Facilitate the learning of those skills and functions essential for communication and swallowing to diminish or remediate disorders of deficits
• Directs activities to promote and maintain health, within the scope of practices and consistent with the Code of Ethics of the profession
• Identify need for and make referral to other disciplines to address the comprehensive needs of the patient
• Assessing, diagnosing, screening, and preventing language, speech, and swallowing disorders.
• Communicating with the patient, and liaising with their family members, physicians, and teachers to design effective treatment plans.
• Using tested therapies in combination with new, innovative techniques to provide the best care.
• Keeping up to date with advancements in the field by attending conferences, conducting research, and expanding professional and academic networks.
• Educating patients and their families on speech disorders and available therapies.
• Taking detailed notes on patient history and progress.

Professional Behavior:

• Places the patient’s safety, comfort, dignity, and convenience before all other considerations
• Behaves with courtesy and respect when speaking to patients, health professionals, and others
• Strives to develop and maintain mutually beneficial long-term relationships with clients, business partners, community leaders and co-workers
• Follows departmental operating procedures (including but not limited to neatness in work area, time off requests, attendance, completing expense accounts, and safety measures in office and field)
• Displays flexibility and adaptability in responding to departmental and professional changes
• Demonstrates interpersonal relations, honesty, and ethical behavior of the highest standards
• Seeks to do the right thing with respect to every decision
• Seeks to understand and faithfully serve the needs of the community
• Strives for both the short- and long-term profitability of EPHC
• Applies recommendations for personal and departmental growth improvement
• Appearance is professional and complies with organizational dress code
• Participates and adheres to department Quality Improvement activities, seeking to provide the best care while looking for ways to further improve
• Responds to and fully resolves patient concerns
• Delivers care perceived by the patient/family to be personal, respectful, attentive, courteous, tactful, and professional
• Demonstrates support and follows the Mission & Values of EPHC at all times
• Able to express empathy towards patients during demanding patient and organizational needs
• Possesses an ability to prioritize assignments and responsibilities and handle a wide range of duties