Speech Language Pathologist - Acute Care at Legacy Health – TUALATIN, Oregon

Speech Language Pathologist - Acute Care
US-OR-TUALATIN

Job ID: 25-44852
Type: On-Call (10% Differential and Min Shift Availability Required)
Meridian Park Medical Ctr campus

Overview

Your greatest reward is helping patients communicate and thrive in the life they love. As a Speech Language Therapist, you will assess, plan, and implement personalized treatment programs designed to achieve the best possible outcomes. If you share this passion and enjoy collaborating within a multidisciplinary team, we invite you to explore this rewarding opportunity.

Responsibilities

EVALUATION AND TREATMENT PLANNING

• Consistently identifies patients’ subjective and objective limitations.

• Incorporates age and disability appropriate assessment tools and procedures.

• Develops specific, effective, and individualized therapeutic programs with measurable long and short-term goals, including projected timeframes for achievement.

• Maximizes patient and caregiver participation in goal-setting and discharge planning.

• Coordinates treatment plans with interdisciplinary team members.

TREATMENT IMPLEMENTATION

• Utilizes age-appropriate treatment skills aligned with level of experience.

• Performs modalities and procedures in compliance with established professional standards.

• Applies a variety of techniques tailored to each patient’s unique needs.

• Ensures treatment progression aligns with established goals.

• Demonstrates clinical reasoning and judgment to support the treatment plan.

• Regularly updates and revises treatment plans to address new problems, changes in patient status, or functional limitations.

• Actively involves patients and caregivers in treatment to promote functional outcomes.

• Provides education and opportunities for functional carryover through home exercise programs.

DOCUMENTATION

• Produces legible, accurate, timely, and concise documentation including medical records, letters to physicians, communication with payors/vendors, daily flow sheets, and progress notes.

PATIENT/FAMILY EDUCATION

• Tailors education to meet the age and educational level of patients and families.

• Recognizes and respects patient and family belief systems.

• Designs educational programs that align with realistic patient and family goals.

• Provides written and verbal home education materials to patients and caregivers.

Qualifications

Education:

• As required by licensure.

Skill Requirements:

• Knowledge of medical and neurological terminology and behavioral management techniques.
• Exceptional verbal and written skills.
• Demonstrates competency, as appropriate to the ages of patients served, in the ability to obtain and interpret information in terms of the patient’s needs; a knowledge of normal growth and development; and an understanding of the range of treatment needed by these patients.
• Must have excellent organizational skills to facilitate program development.
• Computer skills.