SPEECH THERAPIST - HOME HEALTH CARE
*This is a PRN position.
Job Summary:
The speech therapist's responsibilities performs patient assessments, develops individual treatment plans, is a liaison 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.
Job Duties:
- Evaluate, with a physician’s order, the patient to determine the type of speech or language disorder and appropriate corrective therapy.
- Provide rehabilitation therapies for speech and language disorders.
- Maintain a record of services provided in the patient’s clinical record.
- Report to the physician patient’s reaction to treatment and changes in patient condition or deviations in the plan of care.
- Instruct other home health team personnel and caregivers in the methods of assisting patient for improvement in speech disorders.
- Attend weekly Case Conferences.
- Participate in any QA programs as needed.
- Conduct themselves in a professional manner whenever representing the agency.
- Follows all Avow policies and procedures, the compliance program and will maintain the privacy of patients protected health information.
- All other duties as assigned.
Core Values:
Integrity: We are honest, hardworking, fiscally responsible professionals driven solely by the wellbeing of our patients, their loved ones, and the communities we serve.
Education: We believe it is important not only to serve the community but to educate community members about our services and the role we play through life’s transitions.
Collaboration: We know we cannot achieve everything we want without working together with each other, with our healthcare partners, and with the community.
Innovation: We embrace change and are always looking at creative ways to solve problems and serve new populations.
Celebration: We believe in the importance of celebrating life and relationships.