What are the responsibilities and job description for the Speech Therapist (Home Health) position at Blize Healthcare?
About the Job :
Blize Healthcare is looking for a Speech Therapist to join our team. You will provide routine healthcare to patients at the patient's home or in a care facility in Solano County, and / or surrounding areas such as Contra Costa, Alameda County etc.
Job Description :
- Independently evaluate and conduct follow-up visits as a Speech Therapist (ST).
- Provide Speech Therapy (ST) services to clients in their home.
- Document patient assessment and visit details in EHR
- Coordinate care with Physicians, team members and other parties
- Teaches patient / family and caregivers preventative and rehabilitative procedures
- Develops and coordinates the plan of care and provides case management
- Evaluates patients and interprets evaluation findings to determine the nature and extent of dysfunction
- Establishes treatment goals and plans treatment to achieve established goals
- Provides instruction and education to patient, family and caregivers
- Regularly reassesses clinical signs and symptoms to determine effectiveness of treatment, progress of patients towards goals, and the need to modifying goals and treatment
- Initiates discharge planning for speech therapy
- Implements the plan of care through direct treatment of patient, delegates a portion of the treatment plan to appropriate supportive personnel, and coordinates the treatment program with other health care personnel as appropriate
- Discharges patient from speech therapy when the patient has received a maximum benefit from speech therapy in accordance with federal (Medicare), state and / or other regulatory guidelines
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