Speech Language Pathologist, Home Health

The role

You will perform home health visits to provide rehabilitative care to adult and geriatric patients. You will evaluate, diagnose, and provide therapeutic interventions for speech, language, communication, or swallowing difficulties.

What you will do

• Make home visits to clients in designated geographic territories.
• Perform thorough evaluations to assess, diagnose, and provide therapeutic interventions for clients who are experiencing speech, language, communication, or swallowing difficulties.
• Develop a treatment plan based on the evaluation, physician’s orders, and recommended goals.
• Continually assess and revise the speech therapy care plan.
• Participate with BAYADA clinicians in the multidisciplinary care plan, as appropriate.
• Educate and instruct patients, family members, or other patient representatives, in rehabilitative care and activities.
• Accurately document observations, interventions, and evaluations utilizing a state-of-the-art touch pad tablet.

Required qualifications

• A current license as a Speech Language Pathologist in Vermont
• Possess a certificate of clinical competence in speech from the American Speech and Hearing Association, or
• Have the equivalent educational requirements, as indicated by school transcript or diploma, and work experience necessary for such a certificate, and be awaiting the opportunity to take the American S
• Have completed the necessary work and education requirements, as indicated by school transcript or diploma, and be in the process of accumulating the necessary supervised work experience required for
• Solid computer skills

Nice to have

• Prior home care experience as a Speech Language Pathologist, SLP
• prior experience with electronic medical records (EMR)

Benefits

• PPE supplies
• comprehensive infection prevention protocol
• daily pre-screens
• close monitoring of the COVID-19 outbreak
• paid time off
• health
• dental
• vision
• training and scholarship opportunities
• specially designed career tracks

About the company

BAYADA Home Health Care is an accredited, regulated, certified, and licensed home health care provider. The company is celebrating 50 years of compassion, excellence, and reliability.