What are the responsibilities and job description for the Speech Pathologist-Grundy position at UnityPoint Health?
- Area of Interest: Therapy
- FTE/Hours per pay period: 1.0
- Department: Speech Therapy
- Shift: 8 hours/day
- Job ID: 158541
Overview
Speech Pathologist
Grundy County Memorial Hospital
The speech pathologist is responsible for providing diagnostic and therapeutic speech, language, communicative, audiological, swallowing, and cognitive services, rehabilitation, and testing to inpatients and outpatients. The speech pathologist is responsible for implementing and improving quality speech and language pathology services and providing appropriate documentation and billing for such services.
Here’s your opportunity to join a high performing team. Grundy County Memorial Hospital is a consistent top performer in patient experience, recognized as one of the nation’s Top 100 Critical Access Hospitals, and is accredited for meeting the highest standards for patient safety and quality of care. Come see why our employees have placed us among one of Iowa’s Top 150 Workplaces for the past nine years, a Cedar Valley Employer of Choice, a National Health Care Industry Top Workplace in 2023 and 2024, and a 2024 National Top Workplace by the USA Today!
As an affiliate of UnityPoint Health, GCMH offers competitive pay and benefits, including the new Total Rewards program!
Responsibilities
Patient Care
- Evaluates and treats patients in need of therapeutic speech, language, audiological, communicative, swallowing, and cognitive rehabilitation testing and services and participates in and provides all necessary components of this responsibility including completion of proper evaluation, creation of a treatment plan, and completion of treatment sessions per established treatment plans
- Produces appropriate documentation and billing incompliance with all third party payor and regulatory guidelines.
- Completes appropriate communication with all patients, caregivers, fellow staff, and referring providers/clinicians.
- Provides oversite and supervision of other support personnel and speech therapy students
Care Coordination
- Coordinates with other staff and caregivers to provide optimal care to patient including care coordination, patient care conferences, and scheduling.
Quality of Care
- Assists and advises supervisory personnel, management, and administration in development and implementation of quality speech and language pathology services, programs, policies, and procedures.
Qualifications
Required:
- Graduate of accredited educational program in speech-language pathology
- Current license, in good standing, to practice speech pathology in the state of Iowa, or eligible.
- Possess and maintain current BLS certification per policy.
- Read, write, comprehend, and speak fluent English
- Possess basic computer skills and knowledge.
- Use of usual and customary equipment used to perform essential functions of the position.
Preferred:
- 1-2 years experience preferred
- CCC-SLP Certificate of Clinical Competence that is granted by ASHA.
- Specialized knowledge, skills, experience, or abilities dependent upon specific practice area/location
