Location: Holy Family Hospital
Posted Date: 5/24/2024
Job Type: Per Diem
Salary: To be determined by experience
Department: 0301.54870 HFH Speech/Language Thrp
Join us at Holy Family Hospital
Not many healthcare professionals have the opportunity to build a career with a great job and robust benefits while also caring for friends, family and neighbors. You can when you work at Holy Family Hospital in Methuen and Haverhill. As part of the Steward Health Care System, our goal is to offer low-cost, high-quality healthcare to the people who live and work near our hospital, so they don’t have to travel far for great care.
Position Summary: Speech Pathologist Per Diem
Job Description:
Administers and directs administration of diagnostic evaluations and therapeutic treatment utilized in the short- and long-term rehabilitation of out-patients with speech, language, swallowing and hearing impairments.
Essential Functions:
- Performs patient evaluations in an accurate and timely manner.
- Demonstrates ability to appropriately select, administer, score and interpret formal and informal assessment tools.
- Demonstrates ability to develop, modify, and advance treatment programs that maximize the highest functional performance of each patient, in a creative, skillful and efficient manner, and in collaboration with other team members.
- Demonstrates care planning that simultaneously incorporates patient and family goals and preferences, physician requirements and financial issues and constraints.
- Appropriately address patient education needs including, but not limited to discharge planning, home exercise programs and equipment needs.
- Demonstrates ethical behavior as defined by profession, industry and/or organization.
- Demonstrates documentation that adheres to departmental, professional and regulatory standards and time frames with clinical, multi/interdisciplinary and payer mandated documentation and clinical care communication.
- Submits timely and accurate charges.
- Demonstrates compliance with policy, procedure and practice standards.
- Demonstrates responsibility for and the enhancement of clinical skills through in-services, literature review, self-study or other learning opportunities during the year.
- Knows and understands job responsibilities and takes charge of and accepts these responsibilities.
- Demonstrates ability to learn and apply new skill.
- Completes appropriate competencies for the hospital and department.
- Provides patient care based on evidence based medicine.
- Demonstrates a thorough knowledge of patient right to confidentiality.
- Adjusts schedule as necessary in view of fluctuations in workload.
Minimum Qualifications
- Education: master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology or equivalent from an ASHA accredited school.
- Experience: - Preferred
- Certification/Licensure: master’s degree in Speech Language Pathology or equivalent from an ASHA accredited school. BLS required.
Benefits:
We have many plans with various deductibles, which can cover individuals or families, so you can customize a plan that will work for you! Steward Health Care works with Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts to provide affordable health insurance for our employees in benefit eligible positions.
Other Benefits provided:
- Dental, Vision, Health Care Savings Account, Life Insurance, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Tuition Reimbursement, Paid Time Off, Shift Differential, Tuition Reimbursement, and more.
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