What are the responsibilities and job description for the Home Health Speech Language Pathologist position at BAYADA Home Health Care?
Job Description:
BAYADA Home Health Care is seeking a Speech Language Pathologist to perform home health visits for our office located in Cranford, NJ.
This position works with adult and geriatric patients in homes throughout Somerset and Middlesex Counties.
Prior home care experience as a Speech Language Pathologist is a plus, but not required.
The Speech Language Pathologist will be an integral member of a multi-disciplinary health care team that provides rehabilitative care and skilled nursing to clients, affording them the opportunity to receive the medical care required to remain at home.
Responsibilities:
- 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, and 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 necessary to promote the client's health, safety, and independent living.
Requirements:
- A current license as a Speech Language Pathologist in NJ.
- 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 Speech-Language-Hearing Association examination for certification, or 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 certification.
- Solid computer skills; prior experience with electronic medical records (EMR) preferred.
Benefits:
- Comprehensive benefits package including paid time off, health, dental, and vision.
- Development of skills with training and scholarship opportunities.
- Advancement of career with specially designed career tracks.
- Recognition and reward for compassion, excellence, and reliability.
