Speech-Language Pathologist

About This Role

Implement treatment programs for pediatric patients with cognitive, speech, language, and social/emotional disabilities by providing speech therapy services in the home and community, collaborating with speech therapists, and educating caregivers.

Responsibilities

• Provides high quality care and meets the needs of the patient and family by implementing speech therapy treatment plans in conjunction with the speech therapist supervisor
• Assists pediatric patients to develop or regain cognitive, speech, language, feeding/swallowing and/or social/emotional functioning and improves their level of independence by implementing skilled interventions to maximize the potential of each individual child
• Participates in educating, coaching, and empowering caregivers and families to develop skills to carry over therapeutic activities into the child's daily routine
• Assures continuation of therapeutic plan following discharge by designing and instructing patients, families, and caregivers in home exercise programs
• Documents patient care services and care coordination in an intuitive electronic medical record system
• Maintains patient confidence by keeping information confidential

Requirements

• ASHA Certification
• Texas State SLP License
• Current CPR certification

Qualifications

• A minimum of 1 yr. of experience preferred

Nice to Have

• Bilingual - Spanish

Skills

* Required skills

Benefits

Certifications