What are the responsibilities and job description for the Fee-For Service Speech Therapist position at Cobble Hill LifeCare?
Fee For Service Speech Therapist
Your Choice At Home is an affiliate of Cobble Hill Life Center and a Certified Home Health Agency (CHHA). We're culturally sensitive, and many of our staff come from within the community that they serve. Operating 24 hours, 7 days a week, we offer reliable, dignified care in your own home and specialize in health services, personal care, and champion services.
As the Fee-For-Service Pediatric Speech Pathologist is responsible for the planning and provision of speech and language rehabilitation services to patients in their homes; and to work with patient, family and/or others to provide training and/or assistive devices for speech and language rehabilitation.
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The Fee-For-Service Pediatric Speech Pathologist is responsible for the planning and provision of speech and language rehabilitation services to patients in their homes; and to work with patient, family and/or others to provide training and/or assistive devices for speech and language rehabilitation.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Develops a plan of treatment which encompasses treatment modalities, frequency of visits, expected outcome, and short term goals
- Assesses patients and organizes a therapeutic plan of care for therapy including swallowing disorders
- Evaluates test results to determine presence and extent of speech and language disorders or swallowing
- Evaluates patient limitations and rehabilitation potential in collaboration with agency professional
- Evaluates and makes recommendations for the use of therapeutic devices and other equipment to maintain to maintain or restore maximum performance of speech and language
- Considers the patient's psychological response to the effects of disease and changes in body image and speech
- Addresses patient's needs in a treatment plan with realistic short-term and long term
- Implements the plan of treatment under physician direction and in collaboration with agency professional
- Provides speech and language rehabilitation services to achieve identified
- Plans, directs and supervises patient, family and other appropriate health team personnel in the use of specific verbal/physical exercises and/or equipment to facilitate speech and language
- Teaches use of adaptive equipment to patient, family, and other appropriate health team
- Instructs patients, family, and other appropriate health team personnel in program exercises for continuation of maintenance program
- Counsels patient/family to aid in interaction and adjustment to patient's functional limitations
- Observes, records, and reports to the physician and program personnel, the patients' reaction to treatment and any changes.
Required Qualifications:
- Must have a license and current registration to practice as a Speech Pathologist in the State of New York
- Masters of Art in Speech Pathology
- A minimum of 1 year experience as a speech pathologist working in a hospital, long-term care, rehab facility, or home health agency.
- Experience working with pediatric population is a plus.
- Must be able to make home visits in potentially unsafe and unsanitary home environments and be comfortable with travel on public transportation in potentially unsafe areas of community.
- Lifting up to 50 pounds unassisted and up to 325 pounds utilizing an assistive device in the home environment may also be required.
Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable an individual with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the position without compromising resident/patient care.
