Speech Pathologist 2

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Organization:
Hearing And Speech
Job Summary:
This position serves Monroe Carell Jr.
Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt.
Requires previous experience with pediatric dysphagia and swallow studies (VFSS/MBSS).
Evaluates and treats patients with speech, language, voice, cognition, fluency, auditory (re)habilitation, and swallowing/oral feeding disorders.
Educates and counsels patients and families.
Provides independent therapeutic services and identifies area(s) of clinical specialization and competency.
Supervises graduate students as assigned in clinical specialty area.
Participates actively in identifying and conducting quality improvement activities.
Collaborates with clinical practice team to achieve patient outcomes and system objectives.
Key Responsibilities:


Analyzes comprehensive information from formal and informal assessment that is pertinent to the patient's care and management to determine a rehabilitation treatment diagnosis.
Collaborates with stakeholders in establishing the plan of care, coordinates and implements care delivery while anticipating patient care needs across the rehabilitation continuum.
Applies appropriate, evidence-based interventions to ensure effective outcomes and re-evaluates performance to assess patient's progress towards goals.
Employs strategies to promote successful return to home, community, and school/vocational environments.
Supervises graduate students by providing instruction, guidance/counsel and training to ensure provision of competent patient care and completion of appropriate documentation.
The responsibilities listed are a general overview of the position and additional duties may be assigned.

Technical Capabilities:


Speech Pathology Treatment Implementation (Novice):
Demonstrates proficiency providing treatment consistent with physician prescription and established plan of care.
Identifies treatment objectives based upon assessment results and family input.
Writes functional objectives in measurable terms that are consistent with the family's goals and resources.
Applies evidence-based clinical management practices.
Identifies and recommends additional/alternative services when appropriate.
Speech Pathology Patient Evaluation (Novice):
Demonstrates proficiency in evaluating patients with speech-language, auditory, and/or swallowing/oral feeding deficits using the appropriate testing methods and equipment for the patient type, diagnosis, and reason for the referral.
Demonstrates the ability to obtain the case history and selects appropriate measures and performs a functional assessment to document patient's status requiring skilled therapy.
Interprets the results of the assessment and their significance for the patient, family, referring physician, and other members of the health care team.
Discharge Planning (Novice):
Demonstrates proficiency in the discharge planning process.
Informs patients, family, and members of the team of the patient's needs based upon the assessment and/or treatment.
Makes recommendations for continued services, follow-up, or referrals to other services.
Seeks guidance consistently on the transition and discharge process including transition services and referral resources.
May anticipate transition and discharge needs of the patient based upon understanding of pathology/diagnosis and relationship to their present functional status.
Will have completed at least one year of experience with transition and discharge planning.
Speech Pathology Patient & Family Education (Novice):
Demonstrates proficiency in communicating functional impact of assessment findings, treatment interventions, treatment planning diagnosis, and disease process.
Considers the communication needs/level of understanding of audience and may share appropriate information/literature.
May supervise, educate and train students from professional programs of speech-language pathology.
Rehab Therapist Patient Documentation (Novice):
Demonstrates proficiency in documentation practices.
Documents in the appropriate templates and utilizes only approved abbreviations within patient documentation.
Meets institutional standards for quality and timeliness of documentation.

Core Accountabilities:


Organizational Impact:
Executes job responsibilities with the understanding of how output would affect and impact other areas related to own job area/team with occasional guidance.
Problem Solving/Complexity of work:
Analyzes moderately complex problems using technical experience and judgment.
Breadth of Knowledge:
Has expanded knowledge gained through experience within a professional area.
Team Interaction:
Provides informal guidance and support to team members.

Position Qualifications:

Certifications:
LIC-Speech Pathologist - Tennessee
Work Experience:
Relevant Work Experience - 1 year
Education:
Master's
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EOE/AA/Women/Minority/Vets/Disabled
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