Travel Speech Language Pathologist

About This Role

Join a team as a Speech Language Pathologist to assess and treat patients with speech, hearing, and language deficits, helping them improve communication and swallowing skills.

Responsibilities

• Assess referred patients requiring treatment for speech, hearing, and/or language deficits
• Teach patients how to make sounds, improve their voices, or increase their oral or written language skills to communicate more effectively
• Teach individuals how to strengthen muscles or use compensatory strategies to swallow without choking or inhaling food or liquid
• Work within an interdisciplinary team to develop a plan of care for each patient
• Provide skilled speech therapy services/interventions in accordance with physician orders
• Assess patient needs, plan for, evaluate and modify care to meet goals of speech therapy interventions
• Set realistic and achievable goals for patients to develop, or recover, reliable communication and swallowing skills

Requirements

• Graduated from an accredited school
• Current state license as a Speech Language Pathologist / SLP or proactively in the process of the application
• Current CPR certification
• Candidate must be an SLP-CCC

Qualifications

• Graduated from an accredited school

Benefits

Certifications