What are the responsibilities and job description for the Therapy Career Opportunities in Northfield, NJ position at BAYADA Home Health Care?
We are seeking a skilled Speech Language Pathologist to join our team of healthcare professionals. As a Speech Language Pathologist with BAYADA, you will be working closely with a multi-disciplinary team to provide rehabilitative care and skilled nursing to clients in their homes.
Responsibilities
- Conduct home visits to clients in designated geographic territories.
- Perform thorough evaluations to assess, diagnose, and provide therapeutic interventions for clients 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 New Jersey.
- 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.
